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| UpdatedWhile Donald Trump's indefinite ban on Syrian refugees entering the US was expected, it has left many who had already begun the immigration process with more questions than answers.
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Jordan's Government spokesman warns of "catastrophic" repercussions if US President-elect Donald Trump makes good on a campaign promise to move the American embassy in Israel to contested Jerusalem.
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One of Sunday's attacks took place at a Crusader castle popular with tourists. A standoff between Jordanian special forces and armed men holed up inside the castle continued after nightfall Sunday, several hours after the first shooting.
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| UpdatedNine people, including a Canadian tourist, are killed after gunmen launch a series of attacks in and around a medieval castle in the southern Jordanian town of Karak.
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| UpdatedJordan's King Abdullah II talks to Lateline about what Donald Trump's presidency will mean for the Middle East and how Australia can help combat extremist groups including Islamic State.
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| UpdatedHe's one of the most influential Muslim leaders in the world, but did you know King Abdullah II is also a massive Trekkie? Get to know the Jordanian royal couple as they visit Australia.
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A sweet shop inside Zaatari, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, is among the thriving businesses set up in Jordan by those fleeing war across the border.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, small-business, business-economics-and-finance, jordan, syrian-arab-republic
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"World peace, it's just not going to happen" says the Australian appointed a lead role in the UN Refugee Agency.
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Andrew Harper at refugee camp
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| UpdatedArchaeologists have uncovered three ancient, fortified settlements and what may be the earliest evidence of artificial irrigation systems while excavating in the basalt desert of Jordan.
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| UpdatedThe world's first baby using a controversial new technique employed by US scientists to include DNA from three parents in the embryo is born, a report says.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, health, babies---newborns, science-and-technology, dna, genetics, mexico, united-states, jordan
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| UpdatedProminent Jordanian Christian writer Nahed Hattar is shot dead outside court ahead of his trial for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, the Jordanian state news agency Petra reports.
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| UpdatedFootage of graves in Rubkan Camp in The Berm taken on 6 September 2016
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Jets that Syrian rebels say are Russian have struck a refugee camp, killing at least 12 people in what rebels say is the first such strike near the Jordanian border.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, refugees, syrian-arab-republic, jordan
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Human Rights Watch and Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) call on the Jordanian Government to urgently allow food and water to reach over 65,000 Syrians stranded on the Syrian-Jordanian border.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, immigration, relief-and-aid-organisations, community-and-society, jordan, syrian-arab-republic
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Ten of thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's north-eastern border with Syria are running out of food, after a militant suicide attack prompts the army to shut the area.
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Actor Khaled Abol Naga says the death of a young Egyptian beaten by two policemen in 2010 shook him to the core. He says he will continue to speak out for tolerance, human rights and justice in his country.
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Jordan says it will not open any new Syrian refugee camps or expand existing ones after a car bomb near a camp on the Syrian border killed six soldiers and wounded 14.
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Authorities say five Jordanian intelligence agents were killed in terrorist attack on their office in a Palestinian refugee camp north of the capital Amman.
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