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AMMAN - Jordan receives its allocated water shares in full under the Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty’s second annex and does not owe Israel a drop of water, Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammad Najjar said on Thursday.

Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn addresses a news conference in Brussels yesterday. His visit to Athens on Monday is likely to coincide with the government announcing extra measures to cut Greece’s public deficit.

If young British Muslims had any doubts that they are singled out for special treatment in the land of their birth, the punishments being meted out to those who took part in last year's London demonstrations against Israel's war on Gaza will have dispelled them. The protests near the Israeli ­embassy at the height of the onslaught were angry: bottles and stones were thrown, a ­Starbucks was trashed and the police employed unusually violent tactics, even by the standards of other recent confrontations, such as the G20 protests.

Ankara-Though various actors have called on the government to remove Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ from office, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) seems reluctant to make such a move for a number of reasons, including a lack of government confidence in the democratic line of candidates who would replace the military chief.

CAIRO -- Former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei sharply criticized Egypt's ruling system Sunday, saying the country has stagnated under President Hosni Mubarak while corruption has thrived.

AMMAN - His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday discussed with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon means to develop bilateral cooperation mechanisms and efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on a two-state solution.