Amman / Tribune News Service Jordan has signed an agreement to build its “first coal-fuelled power plant”, the Energy Ministry said. “This is the first power plant in Jordan that runs on coal,” said Energy Minister Ibrahim Saif, adding that around 70 per cent of electricity globally is produced by coal. The plant will run on coal and petroleum ...

  BEIRUT / Reuters Iran has filed a formal complaint with the International Court of Justice to recover nearly $2 billion in assets frozen in the United States, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that the assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. ...

  AMMAN / Tribune News Service In less than two years, a team of archaeologists has amassed records for 90,000 Middle Eastern sites in an online database. The Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project documents archaeological sites and assesses the threats to them in 10 countries, said project Director Robert Bewley from the University of ...