Crown Prince receives top Tawjihi achievers
AMMAN — HRH Crown Prince Hussein on Thursday received top General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) achievers for the 20 ...
Youth debate impact of voting as elections approach
Aug 22, 2024
Safadi, Iraqi counterpart discuss war on Gaza, regional developments
Aug 22, 2024
Jordanian field hospital in Nablus provides medical services to 32,000 patients since June
Aug 22, 2024

Local

On transformation of Umayyad military outposts into elite settlements

By Saeb Rawashdeh - Aug 22, 2024

AMMAN — Desert castles were built as a combination of military outposts and retreats for the ruling elites of the Umayyad Dynasty (661 AD - ...

PSD to deploy 54,000 officers to support the electoral process

By JT - Aug 22, 2024

AMMAN — The Public Security Directorate (PSD) will deploy more than 54,000 officers and personnel, using technical systems, equipment and ve ...

EU chief observer says 28 long-term observers deployed across Kingdom’s 12 governorates

Aug 22, 2024

AMMAN — Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission Željana Zovko on Thursday said that the Parliamentary elections sl ...

Region

Lebanon says five killed in fresh Israel strikes

By AFP - Aug 21, 2024

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's health ministry said early Wednesday that Israeli strikes in the country's east killed one person and wounded 20 ...

Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll at 40,223

By AFP - Aug 21, 2024

Iran shuts German cultural centre, upsetting Berlin

By AFP - Aug 20, 2024

Gaza engineer harnesses sunlight to make saltwater drinkable

By AFP - Aug 20, 2024

Blinken meets Egyptian president in Gaza truce push

By AFP - Aug 20, 2024

World

Harris takes star turn at Democratic convention

By AFP - Aug 22, 2024

CHICAGO — Kamala Harris was scheduled to give the most important speech of her political life on Thursday as she accepts the Democratic pres ...

Key Indian hospital ends strike but doctor rape protests rage

By AFP - Aug 22, 2024

'Yes she can': Obama says US ready for a Harris presidency

By AFP - Aug 21, 2024

Excitement as Obama set to praise Harris at Democratic convention

By AFP - Aug 20, 2024

Mpox 'not the new Covid', says WHO

By AFP - Aug 20, 2024

Business

One of the world's largest diamonds found in Botswana

By AFP - Aug 22, 2024

  GABORONE — One of the world's largest diamonds ever unearthed, a rough 2,492-carat stone, has been found in Botswana, a Canadian mining co ...

Privacy lawsuit over Chrome 'Sync' feature gets new life
Markets diverge ahead of Powell speech

Features

Cosplay and queues at Germany gamers gathering

By AFP - Aug 22, 2024


COLOGNE, Germany — Armour-clad warriors mixed with cosplaying Super Marios and monster hunters on Thursday, as gamers braved hours of queui ...

New ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Borderlands 4’ games announced at leading show
Social media platform X to shutter local operations in Brazil

Sports

Djokovic targets Slam record at US Open, Sinner under cloud

By AFP - Aug 22, 2024

NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic, fired up by his emotional Olympic Games triumph, targets new Grand Slam records at the US Open from Monday as tit ...

Germany goalkeeper Neuer retires from international duty
Week 3 of CFI Pro League kicks off tomorrow


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