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A meeting of Arab doctors in Jordan looking into lingering suspicions that longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned has been postponed.
Jordan's Queen Rania has received YouTube's first Visionary Award for a daily video Web cast and blog in which she sought to challenge stereotypes of the Arab and Muslim world and encourage dialogue across cultures.
Jordanian police arrested a local writer Tuesday for incorporating verses of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, into his love poetry, a judicial official said.
Two American journalists who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon were quoted Friday as saying they were "kidnapped" by their taxi driver and taken into Syria, where they were held in custody for a week before being released.
A New York-based human rights group accused Jordan's security services Wednesday of carrying out widespread torture in the country's jails.
The public-service TV ads deliver a cheerful, yet pointed, message to Muslims observing Ramadan's traditional dawn to dusk fast: "Don't overeat" when night comes. "Exercise and stay healthy."
A man who is suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair was charged Monday with premeditated murder, a judicial official said.
Jordan freed a former mentor to a late al-Qaida in Iraq leader Wednesday after several years in police custody without a trial, a judiciary official said.
Jordan imposed visa restrictions Thursday on Iraqis to stem an influx of refugees across the border even as a top U.N. official called for host countries to help settle the refugees who cannot return home.
Ten-year-old cancer patient Fadi Haddad received an unexpected guest Thursday — first lady Laura Bush, who was visiting Jordan to launch a U.S.-funded breast cancer screening center.
Queen Rania of Jordan intervened to reunite a Palestinian mother from Gaza with her son after 25 years apart, the queen's office said Tuesday.
Four lawmakers for an Islamic party have been charged with instigating sectarian strife for paying their condolences to relatives of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a judicial official said Tuesday.
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