Angelina Jolie visits Syria-Jordan border
Posted by: Michael McGuire
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-19 16:38:04 -0700 | disasters-news
Actress Angelina Jolie on Wednesday visited war refugees near the borders of Syria and Jordan, the United Nations announced in an emailed news release. Jolie, a UN special envoy for refugees, said that violence in Syria has resulted in “the...
Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Jordan
Posted by: rsa76
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-20 00:50:41 -0700 | odd-news
U.S. actress Angelina Jolie is currently visiting Jordan to give their support to the Syrian refugees who have fled their country due to the conflict, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "Jolie flew into Jordan, where he...
Syria infiltrators, Jordan military clash, 1 dead
Source: Fox News
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-19 13:55:28 -0700 | travel-news
Jordan Jordan's military says infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border...The attackers opened fire on a border post on Wednesday, according to a Jordanian military spokesman...The spokesman would not say how many infiltrators were involved...
Raytheon unveils Excalibur with dual-mode guidance
Source: PR Newswire
Sāl :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-20 00:09:22 -0700 | business-news
has initiated an internally funded program to enhance its combat-proven 155mm Excalibur GPS-guided projectile with a new guidance and navigation unit (GNU) with a semi-active laser (SAL) end-game targeting capability. Addition of the SAL seeker will allow the munition to...
Pentagon Makes an $18 Million Typo
Source: The Motley Fool
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-19 19:56:14 -0700 | business-news
In a slow day at the Pentagon, the Department of Defense issued only four small contracts Wednesday. Sept. 30, 2015. and an $8 million Basic Ordering Agreement to do repairs on AN/AAS-53 common sensor payloads (hi-tech cameras used on warplanes)...
DFA chief kept in dark on sex rings at PHL embassies
Source: GMA News
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-20 01:20:35 -0700 | political-news
DFA chief kept in dark on sex rings at PHL embassies June 20, 2013 10:00am Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario on Thursday said he was initially unaware of reports of prostitution rings allegedly operated by Philippine embassy staffers,...
Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected at least 10 people
Source: Leader Post Online
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-17 17:03:43 -0700 | health-news
Two of those cases, from an outbreak in Jordan in April of 2012, have been previously reported. An official of Jordan's Ministry of Health revealed the news today in an interview from Amman. Dr. Mohammad Al-Abdallat says blood samples from...
Labor minister: "foreign labor in Jordan will only be recruited according to law"
Source: Zawya Political
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-17 02:27:27 -0700 | political-news
Minister of Labor Nidal Katamine said the ministry will enforce the law and only permit recruitment of foreign laborers according to conditions set by the law, as this will give priority to Jordanians seeking employment in the private sector. During...
Jordan: House resumes state budget debate
Source: Zawya Political
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-17 02:28:05 -0700 | political-news
The Lower House on Sunday resumed a lengthy debate of the 2013 temporary state budget law and independent governmental units' budget bill in a session chaired by Speaker Saad Hayel Srour and attended by Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour. Taking the...
The Netherlands tried to broker peace between Israel and Palestinians
Source: Dutch News
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-17 01:03:24 -0700 | political-news
Last winter an Israeli and Palestinian negotiator were in the Netherlands for talks, the paper says. Efforts were also made to get Israel premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mamoud Abbas round the negotiating table. The secret operation had the...
Canada pledges Jordan $25m to h...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-17 03:31:44 -0700 | political-news
Canada on Sunday pledged 25m Canadian dollars ($24.58m) to Jordan to help the kingdom cope with the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled there, state media reported. Following a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Canadian...
US secret operations in Syria
Posted by: SophieLacroix
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-16 16:23:23 -0700 | political-news
A well-informed source in Turkey's General Staff says that earlier in June US President Barack Obama made a decision that Special Operations forces should undertake real actions on the Syrian territory that may include annihilating 'critical objects'. The Congress is...
King Abdullah: Jordan's army is ready to defend any threat from Syria
Posted by: saleh1966
Kafr āl Ma' :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-18 22:04:43 -0700 | disasters-news
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Sunday that the Kingdom was ready to defend itself from any threat to its security from the conflict in neighboring Syria, Reuters reported. “If the world does not help as it should, and if...
The planet that shouldn't exist: Hubble discovers new mass that disproves current astronomical ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-16 15:25:04 -0700 | technology-news
Fresh Prince Of WA , Manchester, United Kingdom, 16/6/2013 18:48 Click to rate Rating 12 Q: What do astronomers get when ingorant journalists confuse astology with astonomy astology? David , Marietta, 16/6/2013 18:01 The way we have...
Jordan's king says he's ready to fend off threats
Source: Fox News
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2013-06-16 13:34:24 -0700 | political-news
Jordan Jordan's king says his nation is prepared to fend off any threats from its larger Syrian neighbor. Abdullah II says Jordan "will emerge victorious in the face of all challenges, the way we always have in the past"...
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