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Debate tackles argileh café ban
Jordanians participating in an open debate were split over the Greater Amman Municipality’s (GAM) recent decision to stop issuing and renewing licences for cafés serving water pipes (argileh).
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Region
Little sign of progress towards Syria peace
Syrian government and opposition delegations leave 10 days of peace talks with few results and a follow-up meeting uncertain, but analysts and negotiators say the discussions are an important beginning.
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World
Schoolchildren among 14 killed by Indonesia volcano eruption
Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.
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Business
Iraq criticises Kurds over oil ‘grey area’
Iraq’s top minister responsible for energy affairs on Saturday criticised the autonomous Kurdish region’s push towards exporting oil independently of Baghdad, calling it a grey area lacking in transparency.
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Sports
Jordan to improve football infrastructure — Prince Ali
Jordan seeks to improve its sports facilities and infrastructure ahead of hosting the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in 2016, Jordan Football Association (JFA) President HRH Prince Ali said on Saturday.
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Features
Stimulants may prevent accidents by ADHD drivers
Adult men with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may avoid traffic accidents if they take their prescribed medication, said a Swedish study released recently.
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Letters
No breaking the law
Thank you for printing the excellent article “Battle against smoking should be won” (The Jordan Times, January 29, 2014).
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- Two brothers die of suffocation in well
- Teenager stabbed to death
- KAFA initiative seeks to combat community violence
- Fuel prices drop slightly
- ‘Man killed by wife, two daughters’
- Approving new telecom operator will lead to ‘price war’ — Orange France
- Two injured in Istiqlal Mall fire
- Gaza field hospital celebrates King’s birthday
- Five injured in three-vehicle collision
- Pioneer journalist Bassoumi dies
- ‘Nursing association president to stage sit-in near Prime Ministry’
- New elections law is basis of reform process — discussion
- Morsi back in court as murder trial resumes
- Old manuscripts get facelift at Al Aqsa Mosque
- 15 Palestinians shot in West Bank, Gaza demos — medics
- Suicide bomber kills three in Lebanese Hizbollah stronghold
- ‘Obama to visit Saudi Arabia amid tensions over Iran, Syria’
- Talks over, little sign of progress towards Syria peace
- Iraq forces hit Anbar militants
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Jun 14,2012
The Jordan Times
The Jordan Times is an independent English-language daily published by the Jordan Press Foundationsince October 26, 1975. The Jordan Press Foundation is a shareholding company listed on the Amman Stock Exchange.
Editor-in-Chief: Samir Barhoum.
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33% of Jordanians are obese — study
Jordan ranked among the worst countries of the world in terms of obesity, with 33 per cent of its population being obese, according to a report issued recently. Full story