Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania took part in a rally in Paris on Sunday to show solidarity with France in the face of terrorism, following last week’s heinous attack on the office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead. Scores of wor

The attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead, deserves to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. The attack did not intend to only intimidate journalists, to stop them from expressing their feelings freely, but also to assault the c

In a recent meeting with the president of the Senate and the heads of Senate committees, His Majesty King Abdullah stressed that Jordan is facing both domestic and regional challenges that have to be confronted in a “balanced and simultaneous manner”. The two fronts

Several lawmakers are calling on the government to go back on its decision to hike electricity tariffs by 15 per cent, starting this January, since the price of oil dropped by about 50 per cent. The energy minister says that the pricing mechanism for electricity has already been

The Palestinian Authority Friday applied for membership in the International Criminal Court, just after a resolution it submitted at the UN Security Council, setting a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel, was defeated. This

The defeat yesterday at the UN Security Council of the draft Arab resolution calling for a one-year timeframe for concluding peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and an end to the Israeli occupation by 2017 is clearly a defeat of the efforts to settle the Israeli-Pales

Arab delegations to the UN on Monday endorsed a Palestinian proposal to reach a peace deal with Israel within a year and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017. The draft resolution departed from the traditional position on Jerusalem, which used to be

Moscow is seeking to broker peace talks between Syrian government and opposition figures by engaging in explanatory talks with the two sides before convening a peace conference in Moscow. The Syrian state news agency SANA confirmed that there are “ongoing discussions&rdquo

Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour recently presided over an intergovernmental committee formed to develop and adopt a “framework” or vision for the country’s economic and social development for the next 10 years. Trying to formulate an economic and social plan of