DUBAI / Emirates Business Nissan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan as part of a landmark initiative to provide the Kingdom with its first 100 Nissan LEAF and Nissan e-NV200 electric vehicles (EVs). The vehicles, to be supplied by Bustami & Saheb (BSTC), Nissan’s exclusive distributor in the Kingdom, will be …

  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. …