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Over 6,000 domestic helpers rectify legal status
The labour ministry on Monday said only 6,500 domestic helpers rectified their legal status during a two-month grace period that started in early December.
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Region
Syrian opposition chief ‘ready to talk to Assad deputy’
Syrian opposition leader Mouaz Al Khatib urged President Bashar Assad on Monday to respond to his initiative for dialogue, saying it was aimed at ending the bloodshed and helping “the regime leave peacefully”.
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Kerry says he has ‘big heels to fill’ as top US diplomat
John Kerry took up the reins of US diplomacy from Hillary Clinton on Monday, winning a warm welcome from State Department staff as he joked he has big heels to fill as the new secretary of state.
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Development and free zones house JD3.3b of investments
Total investments at the development and free zones amounted to JD3.3 billion at the end of 2012, according to Amer Majali who heads the Development and Free Zones Commission (DFZC).
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U-22 team host Cyprus tonight
The U-22 football team host their Cypriot counterpart on Tuesday in a friendly which comes as part of preparations for the inaugural Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-22 Asian Championship set for January 11-26, 2014, in Oman.
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Features
‘Education for what?’
Questions about the purpose and anticipated results of getting an education are just some of the many issues addressed by Fida J. Adely, a Jordanian-American professor at Georgetown University, in this new book. The title comes from a 2005 World Bank report which asserts that Jordan’s development presents a “gender paradox”: Despite equal access to education, women still have high fertility rates and low participation in the labour force. Challenging the assumptions behind this assessment, Adely writes: “The representation of women’s educational attainment as a development paradox in Jordan, and the Middle East more broadly, is in keeping with a larger industry of defining Arab Muslim women in terms of development problems to be addressed through the expertise of development institutions.” (p. 12)
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Letters
Basic cleanliness above all
The “US to provide $31 million to refurbish over 60 schools” (The Jordan Times, February 1-2, 2013), is commendable, but before spending $31 million to refurbish and build new schools, something should be done to clean up the interior of those that already exist.
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- No permits issued to export produce via Israel — ministry source
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- Queen Rania visits home for the elderly
- Syrian opposition chief ‘ready to talk to Assad deputy’
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- Irbid resident drowns in well, four suffer food poisoning Madaba
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- Kuwait says it backs free speech but must protect ruling emir
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- Widad Kawar receives Dutch award
- PM attends interfaith harmony week ceremony
- Mohammed Ali Street, Cairo’s musical heart fades
- Foreign NGOs operate with caution in Syria
- King Hussein Cancer Foundation marks World Cancer Day
- Death of Egypt activist reignites calls for police reform
- Israel arrests 25 Hamas members in West Bank — army
- U-22 team host Cyprus tonight
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Syrian opposition chief ‘ready to talk to Assad deputy’
Syrian opposition leader Mouaz Al Khatib urged President Bashar Assad on Monday to respond to his initiative for dialogue, saying it was aimed at ending the bloodshed and helping “the regime leave peacefully”.
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Mohammed Ali Street, Cairo’s musical heart fades
During its heyday, it was famed as the lively and romantic heart of Arabic music — a Cairo street modelled after Paris’ boulevards, home to musicians, belly-dancers and instrument makers.
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Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraq militia
A suicide bomber attacked a government-backed militia in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 22 people in an apparent attempt by insurgents to provoke unrest against Shiite Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki.
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Death of Egypt activist reignites calls for police reform
Police fired tear gas at protesters in the Nile Delta city of Tanta on Monday after the funeral of an Egyptian activist who slipped into a coma and died after several days in custody, witnesses said.
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Foreign NGOs operate with caution in Syria
Finally they’ve arrived — nearly 2,000 kerosene heaters for thousands of displaced Syrians facing a bitingly cold winter in camps in rebel-controlled areas in the northwest of the country.
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Israel arrests 25 Hamas members in West Bank — army
The Israeli army said Monday it arrested 25 Hamas members during the night in the West Bank, among them three parliamentarians according to sources in the Islamist movement. Full story
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Iranian president to meet Egypt’s Al Azhar cleric
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be the first Iranian head of state to visit Egypt since the 1979 Iranian revolution, when he meets with Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim cleric at Al Azhar university on Tuesday. Full story
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Ahmadinejad says ready to be Iran’s first spaceman
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he is ready “to be the first man in space” under Iran’s ambitious programme which aims to send a human being into orbit by 2020. Full story
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Kuwait says it backs free speech but must protect ruling emir
Kuwait supports free speech but must act against illegal comments made about the Gulf state’s ruler, the government said on Monday, after a Twitter user was jailed for five years. Full story
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McCain tweet on Iran draws criticism
A leading Republican senator’s tweet comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a monkey is drawing criticism from a fellow Republican lawmaker as racist. Full story
Centrist Islamists approach Brotherhood for.
Moderate Islamists who claim to have the so-far largest coherent.