Local

Jordan extends condolences to US over wildfire victims

By JT - Jan 09, 2025

AMMAN — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates expressed its sincere condolences to the government and people of the US over victim ...

Man sentenced to 8 years for attempted murder

By Rana Husseini - Jan 09, 2025

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a January Criminal Court ruling, sentencing a man to eight years in prison after convicting him of ...

Early Jordanian history through Jabel Mutawwaq’s pottery

By Saeb Rawashdeh - Jan 09, 2025

AMMAN — Jabel Mutawwaq is a site near Zarqa River with pottery finds that are older than the Bronze Age. ...

Region

Lebanon army chief Aoun becomes president after two-year void

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

Beirut, Lebanon — Lebanon's lawmakers on Thursday elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy in the position, in a ...

UN migration agency appeals for $73 mn in aid for Syria

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

Lebanon's presidential frontrunner Joseph Aoun, respected army chief

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

Red Cross urges unhindered aid access to flood-hit and freezing Gaza

By AFP - Jan 08, 2025

US says forces struck Huthi weapons stores in Yemen

By AFP - Jan 08, 2025

World

Climate disasters drive unusually high losses in 2024 –Munich Re

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

  FRANKFURT, GERMANY — Climate change fuelled natural disasters that caused $320 billion in losses last year, German reinsurance giant Munic ...

EU ready to lead Ukraine support 'if US not willing'—Kallas

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

North Korea's Kim says new missile will deter 'rivals'

By AFP - Jan 07, 2025

Tensions mount in Venezuela ahead of Maduro swearing-in

By AFP - Jan 07, 2025

Russia says captured key town in eastern Ukraine

By AFP - Jan 06, 2025

Business

Kingdom’s inflation rises by 1.56% in 2024

By JT - Jan 09, 2025

AMMAN — The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, increased by 1.56 per cent in 2024 to 110.71 points compared with 109.02 ...

IPI rises by 0.81% in first 11 months of 2024
Tender floated to study establishment of stations to supply natural gas for vehicles

Features

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site uncovered

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

LONDON — British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in t ...

Who's winning the CES autonomy race? Not cars
Golden Globes ratings edge up past 10 million

Sports

Neymar says 2026 World Cup will be his last

By AFP - Jan 09, 2025

SAO PAULO — Neymar said that the 2026 World Cup will be his last adding he was confident that Brazil would qualify for the finals in North A ...

The nomadic mini-city behind the Dakar Rally
New Zealand crush Sri Lanka by 113 runs in 2nd ODI to win series


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