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Belief that so-called honor killings are justified is still common among Jordanian teenagers, a Cambridge University study found.

The team from the hospital's Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Division of Pediatric Urology Treated 44 Jordanian Children and Met with Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan to Discuss their Medical Work )--A four-man surgical team from Children's Hospital Los Angeles recently returned from a medical mission to Amman, ... (more)

A Syrian refugee worker, organizes ice cream cups, at the Bakdash ice cream store, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

WAM AMMAN, June 19th, 2013 -- His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan has left for London, where he will hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague.

Syrian refugee worker, Mohammed Ali, 25, from Yalda, Damascus, organizes ice cream cups, at the Bakdash ice cream store, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

We are writing to express our concern about the implications of Jordan's Press and Publications Law, which was amended last year The measure seems at odds with King Abdullah's vision of democratic reform.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 .

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.