Israel has to choose between peace and conflict — FM
AMMAN — Israel has to choose between a just and comprehensive peace that ends the occupation and resorts to the two-state solution leading t ...
10 local infections, 7 virus cases from abroad recorded on Thursday
Aug 13, 2020
Safadi talks ties, region in phone calls with Iraq, EU counterparts
Aug 13, 2020
Int’l Youth Day marked with focus on humanitarian action amid pandemic
Aug 13, 2020

Local

Army repatriates 37 Jordanians from Lebanon

By JT - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — The Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) on Thursday repatriated 37 Jordanians from Lebanon on board a transport plane affiliated wit ...

Cassation Court upholds 2018 plotting subversive acts ruling

By Rana Husseini - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation upheld a December State Security Court ruling sentencing three men to 15 years in prison each after convictin ...

Demand for gold drops drastically — Jordan Jewellers Association

By Maria Weldali - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — This year local demand for gold fell by 80 per cent compared with last year and the volume sold is estimated at around JD14 million, ...

Region

US says Iran forces board ship in international waters

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

TEHRAN — Iranian forces boarded a tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman, using a helicopter and two ships to take over the vess ...

Beirut buries more of its dead as world mobilises

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

More than 170 dead in Yemen floods

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

‘Civilians, soldiers clash leaving 127 dead in South Sudan’

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Beirut blast trauma adds new wounds to old scars

By AFP - Aug 12, 2020

World

Netherlands' Belgian enclave juggles tricky virus rules

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

AMSTERDAM — There is a small Belgian enclave in the southern Netherlands where respecting two sets of rules to fight coronavirus has become ...

Greece reports first coronavirus case in island camp

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Thousands form human chains in Belarus after post-vote crackdown

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Russian vaccine faces scepticism as nations renew virus battle

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris to be first black woman VP

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Business

Apple must pay $500 million over patent violations, US court rules

By AFP - Aug 12, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple must pay more than $500 million in damages and interest for 4G patent infringements held by intellectual property comp ...

Peanut traders baffled by Sudan export ban on key cash crop
Saudi Aramco chief sounds optimistic over oil demand rise

Features

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

PARIS — The dwarf planet Ceres — long believed to be a barren space rock — is an ocean world with reservoirs of seawater beneath its surface ...

Cloning one’s computer hard disk would be a wise choice
Medical masks best, cotton good, bandanas worse

Sports

'Thousands have tried' — Bayern ponder how to stop Messi

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

LISBON — Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka said the German giants are working out how to curb the legendary talents of Barcelona star L ...

Leipzig’s Poulsen ready to replace Werner in Champions League tilt
Lillard scores 61 as Blazers stride towards play-offs

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