Saturday, 15 October 2011 23:46
Posted by Abdul Ahad
AMMAN: Unknown attackers hurled stones and fired shots to disperse participants at an anti-corruption conference in northern Jordan on Saturday, injuring at least 35 people, witnesses said.
The conference, entitled "For reforms and against corruption," was being held at Salhub, 50 kilometres (32 miles) from Amman, and attended mainly by members of the Bani Sakher and Bani Hassan tribes, they said.
"The attackers suddenly began throwing stones at the participants and then fired in the air to disperse the gathering," one witness said.
"The tribal members then drew their weapons and also fired in the air, causing the attackers to flee," another participant said.
At least 35 people were slightly injured and 27 cars damaged, organisers of the meeting said.
Among those attending the conference were National Reform Front (NFR) head, former premier Ahmad Obeidat, and Zaki Bani Rsheid, chief of the political office of the Islamic Action Front (IAF).
Witnesses said the two men were ...
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AMMAN: Unknown attackers hurled stones and fired shots to disperse participants at an anti-corruption conference in northern Jordan on Saturday, injuring at least 35 people, witnesses said.
The conference, entitled "For reforms and against corruption," was being held at Salhub, 50 kilometres (32 miles) from Amman, and attended mainly by members of the Bani Sakher and Bani Hassan tribes, they said.
"The attackers suddenly began throwing stones at the participants and then fired in the air to disperse the gathering," one witness said.
"The tribal members then drew their weapons and also fired in the air, causing the attackers to flee," another participant said.
At least 35 people were slightly injured and 27 cars damaged, organisers of the meeting said.
Among those attending the conference were National Reform Front (NFR) head, former premier Ahmad Obeidat, and Zaki Bani Rsheid, chief of the political office of the Islamic Action Front (IAF).
Witnesses said the two men were ...
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"Twelve people were killed today" and dozens wounded, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP by telephone.
Security forces killed seven people in Dael, a woman and a boy in the flashpoint town of Daraa, ...
UNITED NATIONS: Supporters and opponents of UN action against Syria crossed swords at the Security Council Friday after it was revealed the regime's crackdown has cost more than 3,000 lives, diplomats said.
Envoys for Germany, France, Britain and Portugal raised President Bashar al-Assad's deadly assault on protesters during closed-door consultations.
Russia and China last week vetoed a resolution which had raised the prospect of potential measures against Damascus.
"The advocates of inaction on Syria should draw conclusions from ...
GAZA CITY: Gaza's Hamas rulers on Friday rejected criticism from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority over the terms of a prisoner swap deal signed with Israel this week.
Under the deal's terms, Hamas will free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners -- 205 of whom will be exiled from their West Bank homes in a move slammed on Thursday by the Palestinian Authority's top diplomat, Riyad al-Malki.
Of that number, 163 will ...
DAMASCUS: Syria forces killed 10 people on Friday as they fired on rallies supporting army defectors opposed to a crackdown that the UN said has killed more than 3,000 people.
"Ten demonstrators were killed today," Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP by telephone.
The toll included seven in Dael on the outskirts of Daraa, a flashpoint town in the south; a demonstrator in Saqba on the outskirts of Damascus, one ...
DUBAI: A proposed UN resolution on Yemen calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign that fails to threaten sanctions is unlikely to stem the tide of violence engulfing the country, analysts say.
After 33 years at the helm, Saleh is refusing to step down after months of deadly protests unless his arch rivals, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and tribal leader Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, who are currently battling his troops in Sanaa, also step aside.
Ali Mohsen ...
WASHINGTON: The United States is considering more sanctions on Iran's central bank to "ratchet up the pressure" on Tehran after an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States, a senior Treasury official said on Thursday.
Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen said the Obama administration's efforts to tighten the financial and commercial screws on Iran were paying off, but other approaches were also being considered.
"We are looking very actively at the possibility of designating ...
