Local

Arab Bank Group achieves 'record' net profit of $1 billion for 2024, 40% cash dividends

By JT - Feb 01, 2025

AMMAN — The Arab Bank Group achieved strong results for the financial year ending December 31, 2024, with a record net profit of $1 billion, ...

Diesel, unleaded 90-, 95-octane gas to see price hike in February

By JT - Feb 01, 2025

AMMAN — The Ministry of Energy's fuel pricing committee on Friday decided to increase the prices of diesel and unleaded 90- and 95-octane ga ...

Tell er-Rumeith: Strategic Iron Age stronghold on King's Highway

By Saeb Rawashdeh - Feb 01, 2025

AMMAN — Tell er-Rumeith, or Tell er-Ramith1 is an Iron Age site located 15 km to the east of Irbid and 7 km south of Ramtha. ...

Region

At least 56 killed as fighting grips greater Khartoum

By AFP - Feb 01, 2025

PORT SUDAN, Sudan — Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical ...

Gunmen kill 10 in Syria village 'massacre' - monitor

By AFP - Feb 01, 2025

Israel cuts ties with UN agency for Palestinian refugees

By AFP - Jan 31, 2025

Syria's Sharaa: Fighter to interim head of state

By AFP - Jan 30, 2025

New Syria leaders discuss 'justice' for Assad's victims with Russian delegation

By AFP - Jan 29, 2025

World

Philadelphia plane crash marks second US aviation disaster

By AFP - Feb 01, 2025

PHILADELPHIA — A small jet with six people onboard crashed into a busy Philadelphia neighborhood Friday, officials said, marking another US ...

Protests against German conservatives after vote with far right

By AFP - Jan 31, 2025

No survivors after helicopter collides with plane over Washington

By AFP - Jan 31, 2025

Germany’s Scholz says expelling Gazans ‘unacceptable’

By AFP - Jan 29, 2025

Trump freezes federal aid to Americans, triggering fury

By AFP - Jan 29, 2025

Business

Number of registered companies increases by 13% in January

By JT - Feb 01, 2025

AMMAN — The number of registered companies in January 2025 increased by 13 per cent compared to the same month of 2024, and by 705 companies ...

Kingdom annually produces statistical data at cost of JD15m
750 investors apply to rent sections in Jordan-Syria free zone

Features

Pre-Grammys gala honoring the Grateful Dead focuses on fire relief

By AFP - Feb 01, 2025

LOS ANGELES, United States — Music world A-listers took the stage Friday to honour the Grateful Dead at an annual pre-Grammys benefit gala, ...

Nostalgia and escapism: Highlights from Paris Couture Week
Beyonce and the Grammys: a tense relationship again at a head

Sports

Hussein, Wihdat contest Jordan Super Cup

By Aline Bannayan - Feb 01, 2025

AMMAN —  Hussein and Wihdat come head-to-head on Sunday in Leg 1 of the 41st Jordan Super Cup.  The Super Cup groups reigning League champs ...

Man City face Real Madrid in pick of Champions League play-off ties
Villa won’t sell Watkins to Arsenal insists Emery
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