MELBOURNE -Exciting young winger Robbie Kruse inspired Australia's old guard to a thumping 4-0 win over Jordan which put them within sight of next year's World Cup on Tuesday. Germany-based Kruse set up 30-somethings Mark Bresciano and Tim Cahill and then grabbed an eye-catching goal of his ...

AMMAN - Pakistani troops are taking part in ‘Eager Lion 2013’ exercises in Jordan with many other countries including US, Britain, France and Saudi Arabia.Jordan on Sunday announced the start of military exercises involving more than 8,000 soldiers and observers from 19 different ...

LONDON:Britainhas signed a legal treaty withJordangiving guarantees that terror suspect Abu Qatada would face a fair trial if deported, Home Secretary Theresa May said Wednesday. May made the announcement in parliament a day after the Court of Appeal inLondonrefused her permission to challenge its ...

AMMAN (AFP) - Jordanian police said on Sunday they found the burned body of a pregnant woman whose throat had been slit and belly cut open showing her four-month-old foetus, in an apparent “honour killing”. “We found the body of the woman at dawn in Ruseifeh (east of Amman). Her ...

AMMAN - Jordanian police said on Sunday they found the burned body of a pregnant woman whose throat had been slit and belly cut open showing her four-month-old foetus, in an apparent “honour killing”. “We found the body of the woman at dawn in Ruseifeh (east of Amman). Her throat ...

AMMAN  - King Abdullah II swore in a trim cabinet line-up of 19 members on Saturday led by reformist Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur, who merged several portfolios to cut spending but failed to satisfy opposition Islamists.The new government, the smallest in Jordan in more than four decades, ...

AMMAN (AFP) - Jordan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur submitted his cabinet’s resignation to King Abdullah II on Tuesday, following a general election which was swept by pro-regime loyalists. “Nsur submitted the resignation of the government to his majesty,” a palace statement ...

AMMAN (AFP) - Jordan's electoral commission has refused to register an independent list of candidates calling itself "Saddam Hussein" after the executed Iraqi dictator, the group's leader said on Sunday. "We have filed an appeal against the electoral commission's rejection of our Saddam Hussein ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories  - Jordan's King Abdullah II flew in to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday for the first visit by a top foreign leader since the Palestinians gained upgraded United Nations status.The monarch arrived by military helicopter from Jordan, landing at the ...

RAMALLAH (AFP) - Jordan’s King Abdullah II will visit Ramallah on Thursday, the first Arab leader to travel to the Israeli-occupied territory since the Palestinians won UN non-member state status, a Palestinian official said. “King Abdullah will visit the state of Palestine the day ...

AMMAN (AFP) - Former premier and intelligence chief Ahmad Obeidat joined thousands of Jordanians on Friday to protest fuel price hikes, demanding regime reform and the resignation of Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.“The people want to reform the regime. We demand reform and change. Nsur, out ...

AMMAN (AFP) - Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated on Monday outside the prime minister’s offices in protest against fuel price hikes that have met with public outcry over the past week, an AFP journalist said.Around 500 protesters marched two kilometres (more than a mile) from the ...

AMMAN  - Jordanian unions held a strike on Sunday to protest fuel price rises, two days after thousands of demonstrators in Amman called for the king to go, an official told AFP. “All 15 unions except the nurses’ union stopped working between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm (0800-1100 GMT) on ...

AMMAN - A Jordanian court on Sunday sentenced former spy chief Mohammed Dahabi to 13 years in jail with hard labour and ordered him to pay a 21-million-dinar ($29-million) fine after finding him guilty of corruption. Dahabi, a general who ran the intelligence department from 2005 to 2008, was ...

AMMAN - Jordan has foiled a “terrorist plot” and arrested 11 Al-Qaeda suspects who planned to carry out suicide attacks against shopping malls and diplomats, Petra news agency reported on Sunday. “The General Intelligence Department has foiled a terrorist plot against national ...

ISLAMABAD - Nawaf Saraireh, Ambassador of Jordan said on Wednesday that he is very keen to further expand the economic and trade relations with Pakistan, as both countries are enjoying good historical ties.This he said during his visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) office for ...

AMMAN - Jordan's electoral authority on Tuesday set January 23 as the date for a general election after King Abdullah II dissolved parliament despite a boycott pledge by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood."In line with a royal decree to hold the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Independent ...

 LONDON - , The British government asked the Jordanian authorities to consider pardoning radical cleric Abu Qatada, it has emerged in court. But an appeal hearing was told that Jordan said that would not be possible and he would have to stand trial there, according to BBC. Jordan also refused ...

AMMAN  - Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday designated veteran politician Abdullah Nsur to form a new government after prime minister Fayez Tarawneh and his government resigned ahead of legislative polls. “The king today accepted the resignation of Fayez Tarawneh’s ...

AMMAN - King Abdullah II of Jordan has as part of his reform initiatives set up a constitutional court comprising nine members, according to a royal decree published on Sunday. The court, the first of its kind in the kingdom, will be the only one authorised to verify that laws comply with the ...

AMMAN  - Jordan has named carrier diplomat Walid Obeidat as a new ambassador to Israel, filling a position that has been vacant since 2010, a senior official said on Friday. “The council of ministers has decided to appoint Walid Obeidat as an ambassador to Israel,” the official ...

SINGAPORE  - Japan strengthened their iron grip on World Cup qualifying Group B Tuesday but mighty Iran were sent spinning to their first ever defeat to outsiders Lebanon. As Japan beat Iraq 1-0 in Saitama, Group A leaders South Korea were held to a pulsating 2-2 draw by Uzbekistan.Tuesday's ...

AMMAN  - King Abdullah II on Wednesday accused Israel of disrupting Jordan's nuclear energy plans and warned of sectarian violence spilling across the border from Syria, in a wide-ranging interview with AFP.The king, whose country needs atomic energy to meet its energy needs and power water ...

AMMAN  - Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday swore in a cabinet tasked with pushing for reforms, but analysts said the new government was too “conservative” to deliver. Led by Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh, the 30-strong team includes 20 newcomers, including one woman, ...

AMMAN - FIFA vice president for Asia Prince Ali of Jordan, who waged a campaign against a ban on the hijab, believes the traditional Islamic headscarf should not prevent Muslim women from joining the Olympics."I think that the hijab will not hinder the participation of Muslim women in the Olympic ...

AMMAN  - A former Jordanian intelligence chief was charged Thursday with money laundering, embezzlement and abuse of power, judicial officials said, the latest move in a widening anti-graft campaign propelled by popular protests against corruption. The officials said General Mohammad ...

AMMAN  - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators gathered in the Jordanian capital on Tuesday for their first face-to-face meeting in more than 15 months, but both sides insisted full-blown talks remained some way off.Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh met in Amman with Quartet envoy Tony ...

Unknown assailants blew up an Egyptian pipeline in Sinai on Tuesday that supplies Israel and Jordan with gas, security sources and witnesses said. A witness told investigators he saw three men jump out of a small truck at a pumping station in an area known as al-Maidan, southwest of the city of ...

AMMAN, Jordan - On Feb 18, as dozens of protesters were killed by Libyas security forces in the first stirrings of that countrys uprising, as thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets for the funeral of demonstrators killed a day earlier, and as police in Yemen used tear gas to disperse a day of ...

LAHORE Pakistan tennis sensation Samir Iftikhar stormed into the final of the ITF Junior World Ranking Oman International Tennis Tournament. Reports received here said that the Pakistans pride on ITF World Ranking Circuit displayed outstanding tennis to oust Italys Kevin Alboneti in straight sets ...