Amman - Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) Wednesday charged two Jordanians with committing acts of terrorism by plotting to kill an Israeli businessman in the country, judicial sources said.
"The tribunal accused Mohammad Udallah, 36, and Luai Shehadeh, 37, of conducting acts of terrorism and the possession of an automatic weapon for illegal use," the sources added.
Amman - The UN Children's Fund plans to return to Baghdad "gradually" so that its offices there would be re-opened within a few months, the agency's Executive Director Ann M Veneman said Wednesday.
"Some of our senior officials will leave Amman in the coming few months and the rest of employees will leave for Baghdad gradually," Veneman was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.
Amman - The Russia-flagged ship that has been stranded at a Jordanian port for the past six months would not be allowed to unload its cargo of rotten corn, an official said Monday, citing environmental concerns.
The Krymchakhlar, with 29,000 tons of corn aboard, arrived at the Red Sea port of Aqaba from India in mid-September and was impounded after the importer won a legal dispute with the ship's owners.
Amman - The SNC-Lavalin Group of Canada has recommended the extraction of uranium from phosphate ores in Jordan to fuel the nuclear reactors the country plans to set up, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) President Khaled Toukan said Monday.
"The feasibility study conducted by SNC-Lavalin has come up with very positive results as to Jordan's potential to produce uranium from phosphate ores," Toukan said.
Amman - Arab stock markets plunged further this week under the pressure of bad news coming from world financial markets and retreating oil prices, financial analysts said Friday.
"Regional markets are still fragile and responsive to bad news coming from western capitals where governments struggle tentatively to deal with the deepening recession," Wajdi Makhamreh, Chief Operating Officer of the Amman-based Sanabel International Holding, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Amman - A subsidiary of the United Arab Emirates conglomerate, Al Maabar International Investments, on Thursday unveiled the largest real estate and tourism project in Jordan's history, a 10-billion-dollar Marsa Zayed complex at Aqaba.
The developer, Al Maabar Jordan Real Estate Development Company, said in a statement that the 3.2-square kilometer Marsa Zayed complex with a 2-kilometre waterfront would be "one of he most significant developments in the region".
Amman - Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) Wednesday charged two Jordanians with committing acts of terrorism by plotting to kill an Israeli businessman in the country, judicial sources said.
Amman - The UN Children's Fund plans to return to Baghdad "gradually" so that its offices there would be re-opened within a few months, the agency's Executive Director Ann M Veneman said Wednesday.
Amman - The Russia-flagged ship that has been stranded at a Jordanian port for the past six months would not be allowed to unload its cargo of rotten corn, an official said Monday, citing environmental concerns.
Amman - The SNC-Lavalin Group of Canada has recommended the extraction of uranium from phosphate ores in Jordan to fuel the nuclear reactors the country plans to set up, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) President Khaled Toukan said Monday.
Amman - Arab stock markets plunged further this week under the pressure of bad news coming from world financial markets and retreating oil prices, financial analysts said Friday. 
Amman - A subsidiary of the United Arab Emirates conglomerate, Al Maabar International Investments, on Thursday unveiled the largest real estate and tourism project in Jordan's history, a 10-billion-dollar Marsa Zayed complex at Aqaba.
