Amman - Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Bashir on Saturday summoned ambassadors of the five UN Security Council veto powers and urged the world community "to shoulder its responsibilities" in forcing Israel to stop its military escalation on the Gaza Strip.
Bashir urged the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China to "move promptly to stop the Israeli aggression and violations which so far killed a large number of Palestinians," the official Petra news agency said.
"Jordan condemns this unjustified military escalation," the minister said after the launch of an Israeli land offensive after eight days of aerial strikes.
Amman - Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi apologized Friday for the beating by police of four al-Jazeera cameramen and the news network's Amman bureau chief during a demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Jordan's capital.
Amman- Arab stock markets rebounded this week after the year- end holiday, but financial analysts said Friday that the rally could be short-lived when annual results of listed firms start to come out.
Amman - Hundreds of Jordanians, some of them carrying flowers, demonstrated outside the Venezuelan embassy Thursday to thank Caracas for severing ties with Israel in protest over the high casualty toll of civilians in the ongoing attack on the Gaza Strip.
Amman - Jordan's Queen Rania on Monday issued an impassioned appeal to the world community to move promptly to force Israel to halt its offensive on the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons.
