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The Arab Parliament has praised the results of the trilateral summit which was held on September 2 in Cairo between Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. Saudi media reports said the meeting was attended by the foreign ministers and intelligence chiefs of Egypt and Jordan along with the minister of civil affairs...

Central Bank will acquire the Societe Generale Bank Jordan.

The ship was loaded with foodstuffs and sailed in 1978 from a Greek port towards the Aqaba port in Jordan, but it hit the coral reefs nearing the beach of “Bi’r al Mashi.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has acknowledged that stagnating donor funding for close to a decade remained below the amount needed to provide quality services. At the same time, as the refugee population continued to grow, poverty and vulnerabilities skyrocketed.

Jordan and Saudi Arabia have discussed the ways to increase the exchange of crops and foodstuffs between the two countries. Jordan's Minister of Agriculture Khaled Hneifat met a delegation of the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Water to discuss the importance of exchanging joint expertise to develop the agricultural...

Jordan’s persistently high levels of unemployment are driven by the limited capacity of its private sector to create more and better jobs. The private sector generates far fewer jobs than the number of new entrants into the labor force, and the public sector is not able to make up for...

Abu Dhabi Ports Group has signed an agreement with the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) of Jordan to build a cruise terminal at Marsa Zayed in Aqaba. It will be the first facility to be developed by AD Ports Group in Jordan and its first cruise facility outside of the UAE....

Nayef Steitieh told field managers in his ministry and across governorates to also look to replace expatriate workers with those from Jordan.

Jordan's King Abdullah II paid an official visit to Cyprus on Friday for talks with President Nicos Anastasiades, during which several bilateral accords were signed, officials said. Following a military guard of honour, Anastasiades and Abdullah held a private meeting and exchanged gifts.

According to a press release by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the loan is expected to benefit about 300,000 people.

Investment opportunities also exist in IT solutions for Jordan's financial sector and enterprise solutions and emerging applications. In addition, Jordan is experiencing an influx of investment to develop software-dependent sectors such as transportation, tourism, energy, and water, the Jordanian minister adds.

Jordan’s Investment Minister, Khairy Amro, said the investment law, which the government is currently working on, will cope with the most developed international laws in this field.

Hammadi talked about Boosting joint efforts in terms of mobilizing resources and support in Qatar to contribute to the treatment of these patients.

Jordan Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nasser Shraideh and USAID Jordan Mission Director Sherry Carlin signed the agreements.

'Boomah (Owl)' is based on research that has been carried out by Abu Hamdan into three female ‘thugs’ who shook up the Jordanian underworld in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

The project aims to devise proper legislation, and setting up of rainwater harvesting catchment areas as well as smart farms.

This is the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to the UAE. It comes a year after the Abraham Accords were negotiated by Bennett's predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said the deals would offer Israel new regional allies.

Jordan Exporters Association Khudari said the FTA between the two countries, which came into effect in 2012, provides "various and promising" opportunities for the country's businesses to enter the Canadian market.

The sales of the 10-day festival included olive oil and various rural products, in addition to production kitchens.

A Jordanian court on Sunday sentenced to three years in jail the director of a state hospital over the deaths of 10 patients at the facility which treated coronavirus patients.

According to official data, Jordanian exports to Turkey in the first 8 months of the current year dropped by 10 percent to JD29 million.

Russian representatives from three provinces met with commissioner general of the Jordan Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

"Jordan represents a unique and strategic opportunity for global investors. We are looking forward to strengthening our ties further in the region", says Devan Gohil, Director at RiverBay Capital. The firm's new mandate is likely to see a significant flow of overseas capital being deployed in the country over the...

The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has joined the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a network of 100 central banks and financial supervisors that aims to accelerate the scaling up of green finance and develop recommendations for central banks' role in climate change. The bank, according to local...

Under the agreement, a mobile irrigation application will be developed to serve Jordanian farmers, specifically in the Jordan Valley.

The United States and several European countries have taken similar steps, banning travel from at least seven southern African countries. South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla told reporters that he felt some of the reactions to the new Covid-19 variant that was found in South Africa were ‘unjustified.’

AD Ports Group and Turkey’s Turkiye Varlik Fonu signed a strategic partnership agreement to collaborate on major investment opportunities for port development and operations besides coordinating efforts to examine other logistics-related investment projects within Turkey. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will also collaborate in establishing a...

King Abdullah of Jordan, accompanied by his wife, Queen Rania Al Abdullah, arrived in the UAE on a state visit.

Ministers from the neighbouring countries inked the US-brokered agreement at a Dubai Expo event joined by John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. "The Middle East is on the frontline of the climate crisis," Kerry said in a statement. "Only by working together can countries in the region...

The UAE, Jordan, and Israel have committed themselves to building renewable electricity and water desalination capacity and address the threat posed by climate change on energy and water security in the region.

According to the country's Shoe Manufacturers Association, there used to be over 250 shoe workshops and factories in Jordan, employing about 5,000 people.

The agreement was concluded with an IMF team led by S. Ali Abbas, during a virtual discussion on the third review of the economic reform programme.

The deals were signed at the Saudi Trade Finance Summit.

Trade between Jordan and the United Arab Emirates has grown to $891 million during the course of last year, and the UAE has invested some $17 billion in Jordan, in a sign of strong economic ties.

The discussions took place during a meeting on Friday, November 12, in Dubai between Jordan’s Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh and Emirati Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Shiekh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two sides highlighted the mutual ties that apparently bring together Amman and Abu Dhabi.

Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Kharabsheh, has stressed the importance of developing the country’s electricity grids and benefiting from global expertise in this field.

The Ministry of Interior of Jordan has confirmed that strict measures will be taken against expatriates who did not receive the two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. In a statement, the ministry has said unvaccinated expatriates would be deported starting from the December 15.

Six lucky vaccinated people will each receive JD500 (around $705), provided that they had been inoculated in the week before the drawing.

The process of supplying Lebanon with electricity is expected to begin in early 2022.

Jordan’s Minister of Agriculture had a meeting with a World Bank official and a minister of Ukraine.

Network International, the UAE-based payment solutions firm, has posted a 19 percent jump in revenue in the third quarter, increasing values of payments processed in both the UAE and Jordan.

The royal couple's November 16-19 visit will start in Jordan, a UK ally whose King Abdullah II has come under pressure over leaks about his offshore wealth and over an alleged coup plot. The tour comes after the heir to the UK throne visits Glasgow next week for the COP26...

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all agreed to normalize ties with Israel in 2020, as Washington under the administration of then US President Donald Trump made Arab-Israeli rapprochement a foreign policy priority.

This Jordanian firm is being praised for Arabic mobile games.

The FAO and Jordan’s National Center for Agricultural Research have signed a cooperation agreement in this regard.

An agreement has been signed to build capacities to establish a sustainable national accounting system in Jordan.

Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan in particular have faced mounting direct and indirect pressure to return to Syria, in violation of the principle of nonrefoulement.

The new airline, Fly Aqaba, was set up with $20 million in private sector investment, said Nayef Bakhit, president of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, quoted by Jordan's Petra news agency. Bakhit said it would start operations with two aircraft to serve Aqaba, the ancient archaeological site of Petra and...

The Water Authority of Jordan has signed an agreement with USAID in this regard in the third phase of a five-year $152-million Fixed Amount Reimbursement Agreement. The FARA aims to rehabilitate, develop, and improve the main and subsidiary water networks in Maan, with $1 million contribution of WAJ.