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Protests and riots over high fuel prices occur across Jordan, with a policeman being shot dead by protestors in Ma'an.
2022-12-16

Jordan reports its first two cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a citizen who had travelled from South Africa and another who had no travel history.
2021-12-9

The government of Sierra Leone decides to push for the abolition of capital punishment.
2021-05-12

The Jordanian State Security Court sentences a man to death for perpetrating a stabbing attack on eight people in Jerash in November 2019. The court alleges that the man "had been in contact with one of the members of the Islamic State", although the organization never claimed responsibility formally.
2021-01-12

Jordan suspends all flights to and from the United Kingdom until January 3 due to the new variant of SARS-CoV-2.
2020-12-21

Jordan reports a record 7,933 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide cumulative total to 163,926 cases.
2020-11-18

A court in Lahore, Pakistan, sentences a Christian man to death for sending a "blasphemous" message to his former supervisor at work in 2013. The defendant said that his supervisor had tried to convert him to Islam, which he refused to do. The court rejected his testimony.
2020-09-8

Jordan says the country executed 15 people today, including 10 who were convicted on terrorism charges with others related to incidents that go back as far as 2003. Amnesty International protests the executions which were carried out in "secrecy and without transparency." Jordan restored the death sentence by hanging in 2014.
2017-03-4

An Egyptian ferry carrying 1200 people catches fire in the Red Sea between the Jordanian port of Aqaba and Nuweiba.
2011-11-3

70 Islamists are arrested after clashes with pro-monarchy groups in Zarqa and Rassifeh, Jordan.
2011-04-16