Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Saint Petersburg for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is intended to end the rift between the two countries, started in November when Turkey downed a Russian warplane over Syria.The visit, Erdogan’s first after th

The Ministry of Culture has its working on plans to combat extremism, the minister said, and that is good news.Of course, it would have been better to have such plans much earlier on and disseminate them among the very young, who would have grown up with a different mentality, on

According to the Central Traffic Department, motorists who use cellular phones while driving are the reason for up to 70 per cent of minor car accidents, a staggering figure that should surely prompt all concerned to do something about it.Whether to make or receive calls, or, muc

Prime Minister Hani Mulki on Saturday showed that he takes seriously His Majesty King Abdullah’s directives to the government to make periodic field visits to various regions of the country in order to stay attuned to the needs of the people.Accompanied by 12 Cabinet ministers, t

Of late, Jordan has been witnessing a wave of assaults on public officials or employees, including doctors, teachers, professors, nurses and clerks.A few days ago, an employee of the Jordan Radio and Television Corporation attacked the chairman of the board, George Hawatmeh, just

Iran has a disturbing record of executions, with Amnesty International saying that last year alone it executed close to 1,000 people.This year, so far, it executed 230 people, the latest on Tuesday, 20 Sunni Kurds Iran described as terrorists.The execution drew condemnation from

The search for the next UN secretary general to replace incumbent Ban Ki-moon whose term in office finishes at the end of this year has started this week in New York. The UN Security Council held a closed-door round of voting to select one of the 12 candidates in the race.Am

It means a lot to hear His Holiness Pope Francis tell the world that it is wrong to identify Islam with terrorism.Speaking aboard the plane that took him back to Rome after his recent Poland visit, His Holiness said that “is not right and it is not true”.The Pope was answering a

Iraq took the decision to ban several food products and beverages — claiming that they are genetically modified or contain excessive amounts of additives — among them some Jordanian food products.While the reasons for banning the Jordanian products were not given, the fact is tha