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The sudden visit to COVID victims' families that sparked Jordan's royal rift By Suleiman Al-Khalidi Reuters AMMAN (Reuters) -When Prince Hamza visited the relatives of COVID-19 patients who died after a hospital ran out of oxygen, he triggered a rift in Jordan's monarchy that has shaken the country's reputation as a stable country in a volatile region. The March 14 visit to the city of Salt was, in the words of a senior establishment figure, the "straw that broke the camel's back", coming as it did hours after King Abdullah had visited the hospital and publicly scolded management for the nine...

Royal conflict resolved, says Jordan's King ANI | Updated: Apr 09, 2021 07:33 IST Amman [Jordan], April 9 (ANI): Jordan's King Abdullah II has said that a sedition attempt has been quashed and that he has mended his relationship with his half-brother, who the government had accused of spearheading a plot against the country's leaders. Abdullah made his first public remarks on the internecine feud in a letter to the public Wednesday, maintaining that the Mideast nation is secure. "I speak to you today, my family and my tribe, in whom I place my implicit tr...

Jordan marks muted centenary after palace crisis AFP 1 hr ago AFP © Khalil MAZRAAWI Portraits of the monarch are ubiquitous in Jordan, not just in the run-up to the centenary of the state's creation Jordan will mark 100 years of survival Sunday as a resource-poor country in a war-ravaged neighbourhood, but the worst palace crisis in decades and the coronavirus pandemic threaten to overshadow any celebrations. "Nobody would have bet a dinar on the survival of the state, created in the desert and with almost no natural resources," said Jalal al-Husseini, a researcher at the...

Published date: 9 April 2021 10:30 UTC | Last update: 1 min 15 sec ago The possibility of foreign interference cannot be dismissed, with Riyadh and Tel Aviv both potentially motivated to push for regime change A poster of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, queen Rania and their son Crown Prince Hussein in Amman on 6 April 2021 (AFP) An attempted coup was reportedly foiled in Jordan last week. But according to a reliable Middle East scholar with inside knowledge of the events, if a coup indeed took place in Amman, it was one led by the kingdom against the p...

When Hunter was a teenager, his father suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm. Years later, in 2015, his beloved brother Beau, the family's rising political star and Hunter's soulmate, died a terrible death from brain cancer at age 46. Hunter's marriage, already on the rocks, ended. And he soon began an ill-fated romantic relationship with his brother's widow, which plunged the family into yet more drama. His three daughters and estranged wife were horrified by the publicity, and he fretted about the fallout. "I was the sicko who was sleeping with my brother's wife," he wrote. He begge...