Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Sunday stressed the need to diversify funding sources for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to [Read More]
A new study has traced the use of silver as a means of payment in the southern Levant region, which mainly includes modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan, back to the Middle Bronze Age about 3,600 [Read More]
Eli Zvuluny from Tel Aviv has a unique habit. The 70-year-old documents manholes from around the world and catalogs them on a website that he operates. While most people walk in the street and step [Read More]
Greece has been experiencing unseasonably warm temperatures this winter, prompting people to head for the beach instead of the ski resorts. However, the mild weather leaves scientists concerned. “Normally at this time (of the year) [Read More]
Although Turkey’s soaring inflation is set to drop in 2023, the country’s economy is not expected to be out of the woods as growth is now on a downward trend, experts said. The Turkish economy [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted on Wednesday that the next general and presidential elections could be held on May 14, nearly one month earlier than the scheduled date. Addressing his party members at the [Read More]
About 37 percent of Lebanese residents and Syrian refugees in Lebanon, or about 1.98 million of them, face “severe food insecurity,” UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza said on Wednesday. He made the remarks [Read More]
Jordan’s Finance Minister Mohammad al-Ississ said last week that the country’s economy is expected to grow by 2.7 percent in 2023. The national economy is moving “confidently” on the path of gradual recovery and Jordan [Read More]
Israel has started to build a 4.6-km-long wall around the Gaza Strip to protect Israeli communities in its vicinity from fire from the coastal Palestinian enclave. The wall is being built along two highways near [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed last week to make 2023 a year of a turning point for the country’s indigenous defense industries. “We are determined to make 2023 a turning point in the defense [Read More]
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