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By Editorial - Feb 28,2015
According to the international aid agency Oxfam, at the rate the process is going now, it would take a century to rebuild the houses, schools and hospitals destroyed in Gaza during last summer’s war Israel launched against the strip. Oxfam estimates that Gaza needs no less
By Editorial - Feb 26,2015
An important meeting on the role of Sharia in promoting gender equality has just been held in Amman, with participants calling for developing a legal framework that puts gender equality principles stipulated in Islamic law into practice. Economic, social and political discrimina
By Editorial - Feb 25,2015
The reported abduction of tens of Assyrian Christians in northeastern Syria by the Daesh gang highlights the plight of Christian communities in the Middle Eastern countries caught up in war or violence. While entire populations suffer under the present circumstances, minorities,
By Editorial - Feb 24,2015
The visit of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah to Jordan for talks with His Majesty King Abdullah is testimony to the warm brotherly relations tying the two countries. Jordan and Kuwait have common views on many Arab, regional and international issues; they ar
By Editorial - Feb 23,2015
Tzipi Livni, co-leader with Isaac Herzog of the new Zionist Union Party, both former members of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had some harsh words for the Israeli leader. Media reports quoted Livni, also leader of the Hatnuah Party and former minister for jud
By Editorial - Feb 22,2015
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Syria over the past four years said it was prepared to publish secret lists of alleged war criminals in this country to help stem an “exponential rise” in at
By Editorial - Feb 21,2015
His Majesty King Abdullah has asked the Ministry of Education to start introducing central heating in public schools, on a progressive basis but as soon as possible. An appropriate school environment is one that enables students to give their best in optimum conditions, that nur
By Editorial - Feb 19,2015
As the March 31 deadline for a deal between Iran and P5+1 — US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany — on the former’s nuclear programme looms, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is adamant about visiting Washington to deliver a speech before the US Cong
By Editorial - Feb 18,2015
It has been reported that the US and Turkey have finally reached an agreement to start training and equipping moderate Syrian forces in mid-March, in a desperate effort to strengthen the opposition and force Damascus to talk peace. The US is expected to deploy 400 of its special
By Editorial - Feb 17,2015
People with disabilities anywhere in the world normally have a harder time carrying out their daily chores, but when they are not enabled to carry on with their lives as smoothly as possible because of a lack of infrastructure that is disability friendly, their plight is unnecess

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