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Fortune: Can Jordan build on its relative success?

"We live in a bad neighborhood," one of King Abdullah's top advisors is telling me. "Sometimes, no matter how hard we try or how much progress we make, political events in this part of the world overwhelm them." Actually, it's even tougher than that for Jordan. They say oil and water don't go together, but sadly here they do. Jordan happens to be severely lacking in both: it currently imports 96% of its energy needs and is the fourth-poorest country in the world in terms of water resources.

Analysis: Pope's message to Muslims might prove risky

For more than 20 years, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then the Vatican's top doctrinal czar, was the intellectual architect of the papacy of John Paul II.

Jordan asked Nixon to attack Syria, declassified papers show

Jordan's King Hussein sent a secret message to President Richard Nixon in 1970 pleading with him to attack Syria, according to declassified documents released Wednesday by the former president's library.

Iraqi President treated for exhaustion in Jordan, son says

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani fell ill and was flown from northern Iraq to neighboring Jordan on Sunday for treatment of what his son called "fatigue and exhaustion coupled with dehydration."

Al-Zarqawi's home

There was a boom, then another. They were definitely explosions. We scrambled out to the balcony of our hotel.

King: Jordanians 'get mad, get even'

Jordan's King Abdullah II has vowed that the perpetrators of Wednesday's suicide bombings will be brought to justice.

Then & Now: Queen Noor

In 1978 Arab-American Lisa Halaby left behind her western lifestyle, converted to Islam and married Jordan's handsome King Hussein. The king named her Queen Noor al-Hussein, " the light of Hussein." The fairy-tale romance endured for more than two decades, until the king's death in 1999.

CNN correspondent to wed Jordanian prince

Former CNN correspondent Rym Brahimi is engaged to Jordanian King Abdullah II's half-brother, Prince Ali, the palace announced Friday.

Yassin: From refugee to spiritual leader

The founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed by an Israeli airstrike as he left a mosque near his home in Gaza City early in the morning.

Fortune: IS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CORRUPT? Of course not. Like all publications, it may blow a few stories. But the lurid charges in a

There's an old saying: ''Never get in a fight with a pig. You'll both get muddy, and the pig will just enjoy it.'' Nevertheless, I leap into the wallow to defend the Wall Street Journal -- in much ...

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