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WASHINGTON — Humankind’s two closest primate relatives are often said to embody contrasting sides of our nature: peace-loving bonobos versus violence-prone chimpanzees. But a new study out Friday in Current Biology says it’s not that simple. Male bonobos in fact fight each other […]

BARCELONA — Barcelona woke up with a familiar sinking feeling on Wednesday, another Champions League hangover, after Paris Saint-Germain thrashed them 4-1 at home to eliminate them in the quarter-finals. After a string of painful European exits the five-time champions extended the list, […]

NEW YORK — Tesla will ask its shareholders in June to ratify a multi-billion-dollar 2018 pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was squashed by a US court earlier this year.  In an SEC filing Wednesday, the board of directors for the US automaker said it "stands behind this pay package. We […]

DUBAI — Dubai's giant highways were clogged by flooding and airport passengers were urged to stay away on Wednesday as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains. Huge tailbacks snaked along six-lane expressways after up to 254 millimetres of rain — about two years' worth […]

BEIRUT — Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizbollah group said it launched a drone and missile attack on an Israeli base on Wednesday in response to strikes that killed three Hizbollah fighters the day before. Israel and Hamas ally Hizbollah have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since Hamas […]

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a March 2022 State Security Court (SSC) ruling sentencing a man to five years in prison for spreading terrorist ideology through social media in Jordan in 2021. The defendant was convicted of promoting Daesh ideology to gain more sympathisers through […]

AMMAN — Evidence of human occupation in wadis from the Jordanian central massive goes back to the Palaeolithic period as it was evidenced in the Wadi Zerqa / Duleil confluence. The archaeological teams combined palaeozoological, palaeo-botanical, geological and palaeo-environmental […]

  
AMMAN — Save the Children Jordan, in its most recent policy paper focusing on enhancing the protection of children engaged in vagrancy, revealed that 42 per cent of beggars that the anti-vagrancy teams deal with are children.

 In Jordan, figures and statistics […]

AMMAN — Minister of Government Communications and Government Spokesperson Muhannad Mubaidin said on Wednesday that the Royal Jordanian Air Force will continue to conduct air patrols in the kingdom's airspace during this period to ensure the safety of Jordanian airspace. Mubaidin reassured […]

JERUSALEM — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday it had found unexploded 1,000-pound bombs inside schools after Israel pulled troops out of southern Gaza's main city Khan Yunis. The Israeli army has carried out relentless air strikes and bombardments in Gaza since Hamas […]