Arab News says AT LEAST 12 people died and 250 injured when a tank of toxic chlorine gas plunged from a crane and exploded at Aqaba port in Jordan.

Arab News says THE KILLER of a female university student shot himself after being surrounded by police on Sunday and was later declared clinically dead.

Saturday, eyewitnesses told Roya that the vicinity of the Gardens Hospital designated for COVID-19 patients witnessed overcrowding due to patients’ families gathering.

A Jordanian state security court on Monday sentenced former officials, Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, to 15 years in prison on charges of sedition and incitement.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday received a telephone call from Israel’s new President Isaac Herzog and they discussed Middle East peace efforts, state-run Petra news agency said.

Jordan ranked fifth in the Arab world and 45 globally in the World Education Quality Index issued by the World Economic Forum in Davos 2021.