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13 Reported Dead As Death Toll Rises In Jordan Building Collapse

September 16, 2022 7:38 pm

In the recent incident in Jordan, three bodies have been pulled out from the rubble of a building in Jordan’s capital on Friday three days after it had collapsed thereby bringing the overall toll to 13 dead.

A massive rescue operation had also been mounted since the four-story residential building had been toppled over on Tuesday in Jabal al-Weibdeh, one of Amman’s oldest neighborhoods.

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“Rescue teams were able to extract three more bodies on Friday; the death toll now stands at 13,” the country’s public security directorate said in a …

Jordan, A Blockbuster Location For Hollywood

December 18, 2019 3:17 pm

The lunar landscape of Jordan’s Wadi Rum valley gets a starring role this week when the next and final episode of the Star Wars saga opens to global audiences.

The spectacular desert, with its shimmering red sands, majestic dunes and stunning rock formations was also where Peter O’Toole was filmed riding his horse in the 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia”.

From Matt Damon in “The Martian” to Will Smith in Disney’s “Aladdin”, Jordanian authorities have worked to ensure the country’s diverse landscape features in some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.

“When you travel to locations everything changes inside of you,” Smith …

Jordan Reclaims Borderlands As Israel Ties Under Strain

November 10, 2019 4:51 pm

Jordan on Sunday received two stretches of land it had allowed Israel to use for decades, amid tense relations between the neighbours 25 years after they signed a landmark peace deal.

Under the terms of two annexes in the 1994 treaty, the enclaves of al-Baqoura and al-Ghumar would remain under Jordanian sovereignty while Israeli farmers maintained access to the land.

But in 2018, amid mounting public pressure not to renew the arrangement relating to the two territories, Jordan’s King Abdullah II submitted a one-year notice of termination to Israel.