Amman
AMMAN - Arab stock markets plummeted this week amid deepening investor concerns over a possible dive when the Egyptian stock market reopens after three weeks' closure, financial analysts said Friday.
AMMAN - A senior official of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has predicted net profits of the world's airlines to reach $15 billion for 2010 - up from $8.9 billion in earlier projections.
JERUSALEM - A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel formed the grim backdrop as Mideast leaders ended their latest round of peace talks Wednesday, still divided on major issues.
AMMAN, Jordan - The president of a South Carolina-based defense firm fell to his death from the second floor of a deserted building in the Jordanian capital, security officials said Thursday, three days after his body was found.
AMMAN - Four Arab states and Turkey have signed an agreement with leading firms for setting up a regional centre to help exploit vast oil shale deposits in the five countries, the director general of Jordan's Natural Resources Authority, Maher Hijazin, said Tuesday.
