Amman - A Peruvian woman has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail by Jordan's State Security Court on charges of drug trafficking, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday.
The woman, identified as Sylvia Rondad, 35, was found guilty of hiding 143 capsules of cocaine in her stomach during a flight from Madrid to Amman at the end of November, when she was arrested upon landing by narcotics agents.
Amman - The German government has accepted resettlement of 2,500 Iraqi refugees on German soil, 500 of them residing in Jordan, the Amman office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
"Germany has agreed to host 2,500 Iraqis - 2,000 from Syria and 500 from Jordan," Dana Bajjali, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR office in Amman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Amman - Two senior Jordanian officials left Amman for Damascus Tuesday on a fence-mending trip, officials said.
Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and the Royal Court Chief Nasser Lawzi are scheduled to relay a message from King Abdullah II to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "which pertains to latest developments in the region and means of boosting bilateral ties," a royal court statement said.
Amman - Hundreds of workers have been on strike in Jordan for the past 10 days - but not for a pay rise or improving work conditions, local media reported Sunday.
Instead the employees, mostly from Sri Lanka and India, believe that their factories are haunted by evil spirits and are demanding that the demons are expelled by exorcism, according to local trade unionists.
Amman - Arab stock markets lost fresh ground this week as investors' concerns mounted over plans taken by the United States and other major economic powers to come to grips with the deepening recession, analysts said Friday.
Amman - Jordanian political parties and trade unions on Wednesday staged a sit-in to protest the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region.
The participants, who gathered outside the Trade Unions Complex, chanted slogans and raised placards in support of the Sudanese president and accused the ICC of being a "tool in the hands of the United States, Israel and other anti-Arab powers."
Amman - A Peruvian woman has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail by Jordan's State Security Court on charges of drug trafficking, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday.
Amman - The German government has accepted resettlement of 2,500 Iraqi refugees on German soil, 500 of them residing in Jordan, the Amman office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
Amman - Two senior Jordanian officials left Amman for Damascus Tuesday on a fence-mending trip, officials said.
Amman - Hundreds of workers have been on strike in Jordan for the past 10 days - but not for a pay rise or improving work conditions, local media reported Sunday.
Amman - Jordanian political parties and trade unions on Wednesday staged a sit-in to protest the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region.
