Daily Reports
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Government Change, Reshuffle: Seasonal News From Anonymous Sources Under Sensational Headlines
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatIn a seasonal tradition, local news websites have over the past days circulated news about an imminent change or reshuffle of the government of Prime Minister Dr. Hani Mulki. News about the change also involved Royal Court Chief Fa...
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Decision To Suspend U.S. Support for UNRWA Not Taken Yet
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehThere have been conflicting reports in Arabic and local media outlets on suspending U.S. support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the wake of U.S. threats to do so t...
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Politicizing Retirement of Princes…Report by Anonymous Blog Highlighted by Little-Known Media Outlets
AKEEDA news report posted on an undocumented English-speaking blog called al-Sura on 29 December 2017 under the headline "Jordan"s King Arrests Brothers and Cousin in Suspected Saudi-Led Coup" has become a main source for mostly English-speaking news...
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Media Outlets Show Varying Interest in Tarawneh"s Meeting With Iranian Ambassador, Syrian Chargé d"Affaires
AKEED, Husam AssalLocal media outlets provided varying coverage of the two meetings that Lower House of Parliament Speaker Atef Tarawneh had with the Iranian ambassador and the Syrian chargé d"affaires in Amman. The coverage ranged from running the o...
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News Seeks To Create State of Tension Between Jordan, Saudi Arabia
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatAl Quds Al Arabi newspaper published a report headlined "Saudi Precedent in Objecting to Hashemite Custodianship Over Jerusalem; Row With Jordanian Delegation at Arab Parliamentary Conference." The report stated that "a high-level ...
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Postponing Transfer of U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem…Sentence Mistranslated From Reuters Story
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehSeveral local and Arab media outlets have reported on a story carried by the UK-based Reuters News Agency in English and Arabic under the headline "Exclusive: U.S. asks Israel to restrain response to Jerusalem move-document," in a...
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Jordanians Have Fourth Highest IQ Among Arab Peoples…Study Republished Three Times Since 2006
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatOn Wednesday, 15 November 2017, local news websites published a story on Jordanians" IQ compared with other Arab countries. This is old news, which has been published three times since 2013 and depicted as new.The Jordanian Media C...
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"Mulki: Price of One KG of Bread Equivalent to That of Two Cigarettes": Banner Headline of Websites; No Reports in Newspapers
AKEED, Husam AssalDuring his meeting the day before yesterday with the parliamentary Democracy Bloc, Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki reportedly said that "the price of one kg of bread is equivalent to that of two cigarettes." The sentence made he...
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Meeting of Baha"is Not Banned; Participation From Outside Community Refused
AKEED, Husam AssalMedia outlets reported over the weekend a decision by Amman Governor Saad Shihab on banning a ceremony by the Baha"i community on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Baha"ism under the rubric "Interfaith Harmony." M...
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Dead Woman in Istanbul Armenian, Not Jordanian; Information in Story False, Pictures Fake
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehMany news websites have carried a story under the headline "Heinous Murder of Jordanian Woman in Istanbul" based on social media reports, without verifying the credibility of the information in it. This has provoked public opinion...
