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Jordan condemns new Israeli settlement plans

By JT - Feb 20, 2020

AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement to build 2,200 housing units in the occupied e ...

Agriculture Ministry calls for regional extermination of locusts as swarms spread

By JT - Feb 20, 2020

AMMAN — The Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday called on international organisations and countries in the region to exterminate the current ...

As interest in learning French expands, Kingdom witnesses growing opportunities for study

By Johanna Montanari - Feb 20, 2020

  AMMAN — Two calls for scholarships to study in France are currently open for Jordanian applications, with more set to be published in the ...

Region

Algeria city recalls protest that morphed into uprising

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

BORDJ BOU ARRERIDJ, Algeria — When a group of young people took to the streets of an Algerian industrial city a year ago, they had no idea t ...

Libya warring rivals resume talks in Geneva — UN

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

New Tunisia gov’t in sight as confidence vote set

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

Sudan police fire tear gas, disperse protests over soldiers' retirement

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

Algeria's new president promises 'radical changes'

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

World

Merkel condemns 'poison' of racism after Germany shootings

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

HANAU, Germany — Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the "poison" of racism Thursday after a shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed ...

What we know about Germany shooter Tobias R.

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

Democrats bare fangs at Bloomberg in fiery debate

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

Democratic hopefuls square off, with rising Bloomberg in mix

By AFP - Feb 19, 2020

WHO urges calm as coronavirus death toll nears 1,900

By AFP - Feb 18, 2020

Business

EU leaders to face off in ‘very tough’ budget summit

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

BRUSSELS — EU leaders gathered on Thursday for a stormy summit to decide the bloc’s seven-year budget, with bitter divisions between parsimo ...

'Fiscal hawks' now endangered as US shrugs at debt
Facebook faces off with IRS in big-ticket tax case

Features

Every child under ‘immediate threat’ from climate, poor diet

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

PARIS — The world is failing to protect children from the health dangers posed by climate change and poor diet, a landmark UN report said on ...

Incognito on the web
Mediterranean diet boosts good bacteria, curbs harmful ones

Sports

Romanian boxer inspires girls to knock out poverty

By AFP - Feb 20, 2020

BUZAU, Romania — Steluta Duta was a teenaged orphan living on the streets when, one cold January day in 2002, she stepped through the door o ...

Ramtha take on Wihdat in JFA Shield final
PSG still ‘dangerous’, warns record-breaker Haaland

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