Dr. Fayez Al-Tarawneh, Chief of the Royal Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, received on Monday at the Court, Matar Saif Al-Shamsi, UAE Ambassador to Jordan, to congratulate him on his appointment. During the meeting, Al-Tarawneh praised the distinguished UAE-Jordanian relations and the two sides discussed prospects of cooperation between the two brotherly countries and means of developing them. ...

Jordan has announced that it will receive further Macro-Financial Assistance, MFA, from the European Union, EU, valued at 200 million Euros. Jordan News Agency quoted Imad Fakhoury, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, as saying that the loan comes as part of commitments made by the EU during the “Supporting Syria and the Region conference” held in London in February ...

The Speaker of the Jordanian Lower House of Parliament, Atef Tarawneh, met with the Hungarian Ambassador to Jordan, Chaba Tsebeera, and discussed bilateral ties and other issues of common interest. According to the Petra News Agency, Tarawneh said that Jordan, under the leadership of King Abdullah II, is keen to strengthen ties with Hungary, mainly in utilities, renewable energy, railways, ...

In recent weeks, the National Democratic Alliance government headed by Narendra Modi has revived the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to the Prime Minister (under economist Bibek Debroy), formed an expert panel on agriculture under federal policy think tank Niti Aayog, and extended the term of chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian. The appointments come at a time economic growth has slowed ...

The Chinese economy has started showing signs of losing steam, just as it is incumbent upon the top leadership in Beijing to maintain a positive economic picture as it prepares for next month’s National Congress of the Communist Party. An official explanation goes that adjustments are being made to eliminate bubbles in the real estate sector and to reduce corporate ...

Pound Sterling which will be seeking a new driver now that a more hawkish Bank of England has been priced into the currency’s value. The Pound-to-Euro exchange rate has been tipped to rise by strategists at Deutsche Bank who say the end of the Sterling down-cycle is getting closer.  The call comes as Sterling embarks on a recovery against the Euro that has seen it rise ...

VINCE CABLE was today embroiled in a bizarre diplomatic spat after a Lebanese MP said he was wrong to compare Theresa May to a Beirut hostage. The Lib Dem leader said the Prime Minister was “like being handcuffed to a radiator in the basement of a flat in Beirut and she is at the mercy of other people” because of ...

If the Lebanese-Israeli conflict were a football match, UNIFIL peacekeepers would not be the referee. “The UN is the referee,” Italian Major Vincenzo D’Anna told Middle East Eye, on a coastal hill a few hundred metres from the Blue Line. “We just say, this happened; and you decide. We report everything. We are totally impartial and neutral.” The Blue Line ...

LEBANON, Ind. – A car knocked over several headstones during an early Tuesday morning crash in Lebanon. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, the crash happened around 4:30 a.m. at a cemetery located near State Road 47 and Elm Swamp Road/North 75 East. That’s just east of State Road 39. Investigators said the car went off the road and ended ...

Egypt said Tuesday it will host the “reorganization” of Libya’s army, currently an eastern-based force led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter. A statement signed by the Egyptian Committee on Libya said that Libyan military officers who met in Cairo recently chose Egypt as a starting point for plans to unify the army. The group, chaired by Egypt’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud ...