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1 hr ago | Asia News Network

MANILA : Embassies accused of sexually exploiting Filipino workers

It's not just foreign employers who are abusing overseas Filipino workers . Even Philippine Embassy officials are allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of their countrymen-so says Party-list Akbayan Representative Walden Bello.

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Related Topix: World News, Filipino-American, Asian-American

5 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

US war games send signal to Assad

U.S. Navy sailors stand in formation aboard the USS Stockdale before maneuvers with the Jordanian Navy in the Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan as part of Eager Lion, a multinational military exercise, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Middle East, World News, US Military, US Navy, Terrorism

11 hrs ago | The Atlantic

'Take Your Portion': A Victim Speaks Out About Rape In Syria

Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, US Politics, US News

12 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

Survival of Syria's best ice cream: A scoop of Bakdash's Amman-reincarnate

The Levant's famous Bakdash ice cream parlour opened its Amman branch in May and has been attracting Syrians, Jordanians, and their cars, in masses.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Travel, Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream, Syria Travel, Middle East Travel, Jordan Travel

16 hrs ago | Globe and Mail

Jordan's free-press decade ended when it banned my news site - and 212 others

Protesters from the Islamic Action Front and other opposition parties hold up Jordanian national flags and shout slogans demanding political and economic reform, and access to corruption cases, during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Amman on June 14, 2013.

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16 hrs ago | Canada.com

Jordan's king endorses treaty with UK, setting stage for deportation of radical preacher

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

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20 hrs ago | AlertNet

BLOG: Syria's refugees: on the road, in search for solace

In Mahmoud's case it was by ambulance. We first meet him, grey hair falling out from underneath his yellow turban, in CARE's urban refugee centre, in Amman .

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Big News Network.com

Palestinian refugee camps in Syria now theatres of war - UN agency chief

According to the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East , Filippo Grandi, seven out of 12 of the agency's camps are now virtually inaccessible.

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Related Topix: Palestinian Territories, Middle East, World News, Israel,

The Miami Herald

Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama's announcement

The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and equipment.

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Related Topix: Middle East, World News, US Military, US Marine Corps

Canada.com

Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected at least 10 people

Dr. Mohammad Al-Abdallat says blood samples from 124 people were tested for antibodies to the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

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CBC News

Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected 10

A man walks towards the King Fahad hospital in the city of Hofuf, east of the Saudi capital Riyadh, on Sunday.

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CTV

Jordanian official reveals earliest-known MERS outbreak infected at least 10 people

An electron microscope image of a coronavirus, provided by the British Health Protection Agency, is shown.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Health

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Emirates News Agency

Jordanian Prime Minister receives Afghan foreign minister

WAM AMMAN, June 16th, 2013 -- Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Sunday met with visiting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Zalmai Rassoul to discuss bilateral ties and the latest regional developments.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Middle East, Uzbekistan Travel, Travel, Asia Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel

Daily Times

Jordan's army ready for any threat from Syria, says king

He was speaking as Jordanian and US forces conducted military exercises less than 75 miles from the Syrian border, with the participation of 17 other countries.

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The Age

Putin warns Of conflict with Korea

Russia's President Vladimir Putin ask why the West is arming rebels who eat the organs out of dead solidiers.

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Hispanic Business

'Audience support vital for success of local film industry'

June 16--AMMAN -- Despite winning accolades and awards at festivals around the world, the Jordanian film industry cannot grow and develop without the support of local audiences, according to a Jordanian actress.

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SFGate

Syria: Sunni extremists blow up Shiite mosque

Syrian activists say Sunni extremists have blown up a Shiite mosque in eastern Syria in yet another sign of the sectarian hatred growing in the country's civil war.

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India Talkies

Syrian kids honoured for memorising Quran - Indiatalkies.com

Amman, June 16 The UAE-Jordan camp for Syrian refugees organised a ceremony to honour Syrian children who memorised parts of the Holy Quran.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Free Republic

U.S. Puts Jets in Jordan, Fuels Russian Fear of Syria No-Fly Zone

The United States said on Saturday it would keep F-16 fighters and Patriot missiles in Jordan at Amman's request, and Russia bristled at the possibility they could be used to enforce a no-fly zone inside Syria.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East,

Daily Star

Troops Head for Mid-East

BRITISH troops are on their way to the Syrian border this week for war games as the UK faces being sucked into the conflict.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military, US Navy