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The fetching Atlantic port of Essaouira lacks the fame and grandeur of more famous Moroccan cities like Casablanca, but that is exactly its draw. Easier to navigate than the vast medieval labyrinth of Fez and far more manageable than hectic Marrakesh, Essaouira (pronounced ess-uh-WEE-ruh) is coastal North Africa at its most quaint and picturesque.

​While Russia and Iran do not always concur, their status as pariahs of the West has pushed them to work as an “axis of the sanctioned”. One way this has materialized is through the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a 7,200-km network of road, rail, and shipping routes designed to move freight between India, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia, and Europe.

The Jordan Response Plan (JRP) for the Syria Crisis received only 30 percent of the total required funding last year, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Zeina Toukan said Sunday, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.

For two years we have debated whether the essential feature of the January 6 riot, the mob stirred up to storm the Capitol in frustration over the 2020 election, was the ambition in the background or the futility and unreality up front.

Lower House Speaker Ahmed Al-Safadi on Monday reiterated Jordan's “full support” of Yemen's unity, security, and stability and of the country's legitimate government during a meeting with deputy head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Othman Majali.

Abdulkareem Quteish, 67, who was abducted in Syria since December 30, is returning to Jordan on Saturday, Khaberni reported.

One recent afternoon in the vibrant Itaewon neighborhood, art types trickled into a four-story building that Berlin and Paris gallery Esther Schipper had just unveiled as a showroom to catch an interactive performance by artist Tino Sehgal. It involved a girl, in character, delivering a short monologue and addressing questions to her audience.

If the globe is warming, shouldn’t there be less snow? This a common question. So last winter, as another intense snowstorm blanketed a large part of the US, the New York Times put it to Kevin Reed, an associate professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University on Long Island.

In 2022, the value of goods that entered Jordan and were then re-exported to various markets amounted to $460 million, Director-General of the Jordanian-Syrian Free Zone Company Irfan Khasawneh said Tuesday.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Ayman Al-Safadi on Wednesday met with the Russia Special Envoy on Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, to discuss establishing security and stability in southern Syria and preventing the smuggling of drugs from Syrian territory into Jordan, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.