Saturday, May 18, 2013
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May 16 (LP) – Two air force pilots died on Thursday when their Firefly plane crashed in Mafraq, 70km northeast of Amman killing two, a source at the Jordan Armed Forces Headquarters announced. The source said that the plane crashed at 6:55AM during a routine training exercise west of the King Hussein Air College in Mafraq due to technical [...]
16 May (Petra) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees outside Syria exceeded 1,5 million. The commission said that Jordan now hosts the largest number of registered Syrian refugees in the region, which reached 471.677 refugees, followed by Lebanon 469.217, Turkey 347.157, Iraq 146.951 [...]
May 16 (LP) - The KFC delivery service in Gaza took an underground path, fried chicken fans in the Gaza strip have been thrown a lifeline by a delivery company which is smuggling KFC though secret supply tunnels. The Al-Yamama company is running consignments of the Colonel’s secret recipe, carried by hand through a network of [...]
May 16 (LP) – Jordanian prisoners continue their strike in Yemen for a third week in protest against the ill-treatment by the Yemeni security authorities in the Political Security prison in Sana’a. According to the statement by the father of one of the prisoners (Mahmoud Albzayah) the conditions of prisoners (Abdullah Albzaayah 19 year and Hazem [...]
May 15 (AFP) – The Free Syrian Army pledged Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and [...]
May 15 (LP) – The secretary of the jewelers union Rebhi Allan said that local gold prices continued to fall during the past two weeks, affected by the austerity plan approved by the European Union to save the euro zone. He added that the price of 24 carat gold has reached 32.50 dinars, while the [...]
Salameh Al-Daraawi, 12/9/2012
What is meant by the shadow economy are the businesses and activities that generate income and far from the government’s monitor and does not follow to any of the known rules and regulations, so does it exist in Jordan? The wide spread of slums in different regions in the kingdom that has reached 30 slums, [...]
Jordan can bear no more; more than four thousand Syrian refugees enter its land in a day, and the total number have exceeded 150 thousand refugees, and thousands others on the Syrian side are waiting for the opportunity to escape into Jordanian land. It is a humanitarian tragedy that breaks a man’s heart. But what [...]
