Arab world turns its back on religion – and its ire on the US

Survey of 25,000 people in Middle East and North Africa also shows 52% of 18- to 29-year-olds are thinking about migrating

The Arab world is turning its back on religion and on US relations, according to the largest public opinion survey ever carried out in the region.

A survey of more than 25,000 people across 10 countries and the Palestinian territories found that trust in religious leaders has plummeted in recent years.

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May backs ally Jordan by underwriting $250m World Bank loan

Prime minister in diplomatic push with King Abdullah II at major London conference

Britain launched an economic and diplomatic push to protect Jordan as an oasis of political stability in the Middle East by staging a major conference designed to rescue the debt-ridden country, and help its leader King Abdullah II, mainly by an injection of private sector investment.

The crowded London conference was attended by the Jordanian monarch the British prime minister, Theresa May, the bulk of the Jordanian cabinet, the US treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and a host of economic experts.

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Ministers smoking in parliament? Jordan must clean up its act | Yousef Shawarbeh

As mayor of Amman, I am committed to driving down tobacco use, in a country where more than half of all men are smokers

The growth of Amman, the capital of Jordan, is visible everywhere. It is now an international business and financial hub, an arts and culture destination, and a tourism hotspot with thriving nightlife. But what we want it to be known as most of all is a model for how to clear the air of tobacco smoke.

Tobacco in Jordan starts with cigarettes. Smoking rates among men with low incomes are soaring. About 57% of men earning 100-250 Jordanian dinars a month (£110-£275) smoke regularly, and these men spend up to half of their income on cigarettes. Overall, more than half of all men in Jordan smoke cigarettes habitually, the worst rate in the Middle East.

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US warns North Korea must take ‘irreversible’ steps to denuclearize

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, April 29, 2018. Photo - Reuters US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, April 29, 2018.

Lawsuit saying Twitter aided Islamic State thrown out by US appeals court

A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday that Twitter Inc is not liable to families of two U.S. government contractors killed in an Islamic State attack in Jordan for having failed to block that group from using its accounts and messaging services. The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016.

When America was great

A Syrian woman gestures through her tent window at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj on Jan. 28, the day after President Trump temporarily banned entry of refugees from Syria and six other predominantly Muslim countries. Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, a columnist for Al-Monitor and the director of the Community Media Network in Amman, Jordan.

ISIS Wants To Gas The UK, And It May Have The Means To Do So

Soldiers wear mask sas they take part in a military exercise simulating a chemical weapons attack during the international Eager Lion military event on June 2, 2014 at Prince Hashem Bin Abdullah II training center, in Zarqa, 30 km east of Amman, Jordan. The US and the Kingdom of Jordan are conducting Exercise Eager Lion, which has been conducted annually since 2011, and includes countries from five different continents and more than 12,500 participants.

Just How Much Of An Ally Is Jordan Against ISIS?

Protesters hold up pictures of Jordanian King Abdullah and pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh with national flags, as they chant slogans during a rally in Amman to show their loyalty to the King and against the Islamic State, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed When the Islamic State burned a Jordanian pilot to death in a cage in February 2015, King Abdullah of Jordan vowed to crush ISIS until his military runs "out of fuel and bullets."

WikiLeaks Docs Expose Personal Info of Innocent Victims – Including Teenage Rape Victims

WikiLeaks' global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found. In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web.

Breitbart News Daily Callers Celebrate Brexit, Credit Breitbart – for Bringing Us the Truth’

On the morning after the United Kingdom's historic Brexit vote declaring independence from the European Union, Breitbart News Daily's American listeners called into the SiriusXM show to express their solidarity with the people of Great Britain and their hopes for what this portends for America's populist movement in the November election. Callers offered jubilant congratulations to the United Kingdom on their "Independence Day" from the bureaucratic elites of the European Union.

World Briefs: U.S. assists Venezuela in political crisis

A senior U.S. diplomat met with Venezuela's socialist president Wednesday, apparently hoping to prevent a humanitarian disaster and ease a political crisis in this deeply polarized nation. Although he is one of the world's most vociferous critics of the United States, President Nicolas Maduro was all smiles as he posed for photos at the presidential palace with Thomas Shannon, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs.