Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel cruised through the final six gravel stages to secure a comfortable 15th victory at the 2022 Jordan Rally on Saturday.
Driving an Autotek Volkswagen Polo GTi R5 to victory for the third time in Jordan, the (...)
Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah completely dominated the 2021 Jordan Rally to confirm an historic 14th victory on the event by the winning margin of 17min 04.8sec on Saturday.
The Volkswagen Polo GTi driver and his Andorra-based co-driver Matthieu (...)
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah cruised into a massive lead of 8min 32.1sec after an opening leg of six gruelling special stages of the Jordan Rally that were held in punishing heat and decimated the field on Friday.
The Qatari and his Andorra-based (...)
The 2021 Jordan Rally got under way on the shores of the Dead Sea on Thursday afternoon. Twelve cars and competitors from eight nations will now tackle 10 demanding gravel stages on Friday and Saturday in the Dead Sea, Mount Nebo and Jordan River (...)
The 2021 edition of the world-renowned Jordan Rally, round two of this year's FIA Middle East Rally Championship, gets under way at the Dead Sea on Thursday afternoon.
Record-breaking Qatari rally driver Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah will be aiming to (...)
out of a new program of support for the 100 Arab start-ups shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa.
The special program will include:
• Access to the Bahraini market for all companies (...)
Two veteran Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, who logged many hours together in failed efforts to strike a deal, said on Saturday they are optimistic about President Donald Trump's Middle East bid.
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During the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, global digital transformation enabler SAP announced it will build skills and knowledge among young talents worth $100 million by 2022.
The three-day program for the World Economic (...)
Jordan's King Abdullah said peace would not be attained in the Middle East without the creation of a Palestinian state under a two-state solution that would be the basis of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal.
In a speech at the start of an Arab (...)
Arab leaders "realize the urgency" of tackling long-running regional crises, from war to high unemployment, Jordan's foreign minister said Monday after chairing a meeting of his counterparts from the region.
Ayman Safadi said he and his colleagues (...)
Concerns over the regional situation and its impact on Arab people dominated Arab officials' speeches at the opening session of Monday's foreign ministers' preparatory meeting, reported the Jordan Times.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul (...)
Sudan's official news agency says President Omar al-Bashir will attend Wednesday's Arab Summit in Jordan, despite a long-standing warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and genocide.
The international (...)
Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Abul-Gheit will present three vital reports on cooperation priorities to the 28th Arab Summit in Jordan next Wednesday, said an Arab League official.
A statement by the League's spokesman Mahmoud Afifi (...)
Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Abul-Gheit will present three vital reports on cooperation priorities to the 28th Arab Summit in Jordan next Wednesday, said an Arab League official.
A statement by the League's spokesman Mahmoud Afifi (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met separately here today with Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga and Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelillah Benkirane, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum held at the Dead Sea, Jordan.
During the two meetings, (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met here today with Jordanian King Abdullah II.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa currently held in Jordan.
The two leaders discussed issues of (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met here today with Arab League Secretary General Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa held in Jordan.
During the meeting, they discussed the latest (...)
Iraq's crude oil output capacity has jumped to a post-war record of 2.950 million barrels a day this month, the country's oil minister said Saturday.
Speaking on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting in the Dead Sea in Jordan, Abdul (...)
Dubai-based private equity group Abraaj Capital is donating $ 10 million to a trust fund it is setting up to help educate more than 1,200 Palestinian children and youth who lost parents during violence in Gaza in December and January.
The Welfare (...)
A group of lower-middle-income states,
known as the Group of Eleven (G-11), today signed an agreement
to boost economic, trade and cultural cooperation among the member
countries, according to dpa.
The signing of the accord took place at the end (...)
Jordan's King Abdullah II today
opened the World Economic Forum (WEF) conference on the Middle East by declaring that US President Barack Obama's commitment to the two-state solution had "opened an opportunity to change the direction of events" in (...)
Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Ulster co-driver Chris Patterson benefited from the 11th stage retirement of Lebanon's Roger Feghali and his Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini to seal an emphatic victory in the Jordan Rally, the fifth round (...)
Spaniards Dani Sordo and Marc Marti were ‘encouraged' into a slender 8.5-second overall advantage after the second action-packed day of the 2008 Jordan Rally here Saturday.
The overnight leader Sordo was forced to run first through the slippery (...)
Spaniard Dani Sordo and co-driver Marc Marti held a mere 1.1 second overall lead in the 2008 Jordan Rally after the opening leg's eight timed special stages in punishing heat Friday.
Teammates Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena pressured them toward (...)
The 2008 Jordan Rally gets underway with a ceremonial start at the Dead Sea on Thursday afternoon and marks the start of the first FIA World Rally Championship event to be held in the Arab world in the modern era.
A provisional 55 cars will compete (...)