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Topic: Jordan

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March 7, 2013
10:14 pm

President Shimon Peres addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2012 (photo credit: CC BY-SA World Economic Forum, Flickr)

Peres envisions Middle East as ‘start-up region’

President tells European Commission sharing knowledge and goodwill can bring peace to the area

By Greg Tepper

March 7, 2013
4:39 pm

General view of Amman by night, December, 2006. (photo credit Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Jordan close to commissioning two nuclear reactors

From the web Washington Post: Competing Russian and French-Japanese consortiums to build two one-gigawatt stations near Amman

March 6, 2013
9:25 am

The Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Syrian refugees top 1 million, UN says

Number of displaced civilians from Syrian civil war swells, straining economies of host countries

March 5, 2013
8:45 pm

Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their hometowns line up to fill plastic containers with water at a displaced persons camp near the Turkish border last month (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Jordan’s king pleads for help with Syria refugees

Abdullah calls on world to assist with hundreds of thousands of refugees in his country, Turkey and Lebanon

March 3, 2013
10:15 pm

Crowd at the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2013 (photo credit: Times of Israel Staff)

At AIPAC conference, Iran endgame looms large

To the pro-Israel advocates in the US, Tehran’s attempt to procure a nuclear weapon still perceived as biggest threat

By Mark Donig

March 3, 2013
12:29 am

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in 2010. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu met with Abdullah over peace talks, report claims

PM’s visit to Jordan may have coincided with last week’s West Bank flare-ups; leaders last met in December to discuss Syria’s chemical weapons

By Michal Shmulovich

February 27, 2013
6:39 pm

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi PM warns Syrian rebel victory will bring chaos

Maliki says if opposition wins, ‘there will be a civil war in Lebanon, divisions in Jordan and a sectarian war in Iraq’

By Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

February 27, 2013
2:38 pm

Newly arrived Syrian refugees wait for their turn to receive a mattress, blankets and other supplies, and to be assigned to tents, at the Zaatari Syrian refugees camp in Mafraq, near the Syrian border with Jordan, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Jordan sees new surge in Syrians fleeing civil war

3,000 refugees crossing border every night; kingdom could have as many as half a million Syrian refugees by the end of March

February 26, 2013
2:53 pm

A Christian pilgrim submerged in the Jordan River during a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud near Jericho. (Photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

How Israel beat the drought

This country was on the brink of water catastrophe, reduced to running relentless ad campaigns urging Israelis to conserve water even as it raised prices and cut supplies to agriculture. Now, remarkably, the crisis is over

By David Horovitz

February 25, 2013
2:02 pm

Riot at Syrian refugee camp in Jordan injures three

Police fire tear gas at some 300 rioters after rumors of sexual assault spark unrest

February 21, 2013
1:59 am

John Kerry answers questions before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

Kerry: US budget woes may hit aid to Israel

Congressionally-mandated cuts, kicking in March 1, will likely lead to reduction in military assistance

February 15, 2013
6:14 pm

My Favorite Enemy in concert (photo credit: courtesy)

Arab-Israeli ensemble makes NY debut — at Shabbat services

Well-known Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians sing a musical message of peace at concert scheduled for Friday in Manhattan

By Josefin Dolsten

February 14, 2013
10:12 pm

A mall in Amman. (photo credit: CC BY-SA sociate, Flickr)

Jordanians plead not guilty in al-Qaeda-linked Amman plot

Eleven suspects, nine of them Palestinian, planned to attack malls and US Embassy in capital

February 14, 2013
4:23 pm

German Ambassador to Israel Andreas Michaelis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 17, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90

Germany to help Israelis stuck in unfriendly countries

Tourists having trouble in one of the 30 states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations will no longer be on their own

By Raphael Ahren

February 14, 2013
7:54 am

South Korean army soldiers patrol by the national flags and ribbons, wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas, attached on the barbed-wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Lee Jin-man)

Kerry: Response to N. Korea will send Iran message

Nations must settle on ‘swift, clear, strong and credible response’ to Pyongyang’s third nuclear test, secretary of state says

By Matthew Pennington

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