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After two years of delays, Egyptian gas supplies resume ‘in full’

Jordan’s Egyptian gas supplies have returned to “normal levels”, according to energy officials, after nearly two years of reduced supply due to political and technical setbacks.
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Fighting rages around Syrian military airbase

Syrian troops and rebels fought intense battles Thursday around a strategic airbase in the country’s north and a suburb of the capital that government forces have been trying to capture since last month, activists and state media said.
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- US drone strike kills prominent Pakistani warlord — officials
US drone strike kills prominent Pakistani warlord — officials

US drone strikes killed a prominent warlord who sent insurgents to fight NATO troops in Afghanistan along with nine other militants in Pakistan’s tribal belt, local officials said Thursday.
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Jordan Phosphate Mines backs Islamic microfinance entity with soft loan

The Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) will extend a JD250,000 soft loan to the Ruwwad Corporation for Islamic Microfinance under an agreement signed between the two parties on Wednesday.
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Riyadi play ASU for Jordan Cup title

Titleholders Riyadi Aramex play Applied Science University (ASU) on Friday in the final of the 10th Jordan Basketball Cup. Riyadi eliminated Ittihad Schools 61-60 while ASU beat Kulieh 95-50 in the semis of the event last weekend.
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The most valuable key

I recently found out what the most valuable key on my computer’s keyboard was.
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‘Serious problem’

The Jordan Times article on illegal loggers attacking forests and the rangers who protect them, “Illegal loggers attack forest rangers in Ajloun, damage vehicle (The Jordan Times, January 1, 2013) shows an old and serious problem that faces Jordan and its people.
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After two years of delays, Egyptian gas supplies resume ‘in full’

Jordan’s Egyptian gas supplies have returned to “normal levels”, according to energy officials, after nearly two years of reduced supply due to political and technical setbacks.

Car bomb in Iraq kills 20 Shiite pilgrims

A car bomb explosion tore through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims returning home Thursday from a religious commemoration, killing at least 20 and reinforcing fears of renewed sectarian violence, according to Iraqi officials.
Egypt-UAE relations worsen with ‘Brotherhood’ arrests

Mistrustful ties between Islamist-run Egypt and the United Arab Emirates deteriorated further this week with the reported arrest in the UAE of more than 10 Egyptians allegedly spying for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.