Jordan Times

AMMAN — In line with its mission to empower and highlight success stories from Jordan and the region, Al Marji’ Publications, publishers of Family Flavours and Nakahat ‘Ailiyeh magazines,held today a recognition ceremony to honour Jordanian individuals and companies for their outstanding achievements.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Thyssenkrupp said recenetly it had agreed to sell a stake in its steel business to a group owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, as the German conglomerate seeks to overhaul the long-troubled unit.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — At least 10 people were killed on Friday in a fire that broke out in a defunct hotel being used as a makeshift homeless shelter in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, officials said.

LONDON — An influx of asylum seekers into Ireland from the UK is evidence that London’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is acting as a deterrent, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.

AMMAN — The research in Wadi Ziqlab, located in Northern Jordan, has focused on the distribution and character of small Late Neolithic sites dating to the 6th millennium BC. According to the archaeologists who studied the area, their hypothesis has been that the settlement system for much of this period may have combined isolated farmsteads with small villages and hamlets, organised in a dendritic (branching like a tree) pattern along watercourses.

AMMAN — The Jordan Strategy Forum (JSF) said in a recent publication that the total number of public schools in Jordan increased by 8.4 per cent in the past 10 years.

LONDON — Britain's Royal Navy shot down a missile fired at a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden by Iranian-backed Houthis, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The ongoing tensions in the Middle East threaten to halt — or even reverse — some of the recent progress made in tackling global inflation, the World Bank said on Thursday. 

AMMAN — Geared towards ending online violence against women in media, the Jordanian Network to Combat Digital Violence Against Female Journalists, directs its efforts to establish a national plan to tackle the tech-facilitated violence targeting women journalists.

JIFTLIK, Palestinian Territories — As he fed his sheep costly fodder, Palestinian farmer Talib Edais looked wistfully at the hills where his herd had grazed for free until an Israeli decision last month.