Efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking will shift into higher gear in the coming week, with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert travelling to Jordan and his foreign minister heading to Cairo to discuss a sweeping Arab peace proposal, an Israeli official said today.

Efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking will shift into higher gear in the coming week, with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert travelling to Jordan and his foreign minister heading to Cairo to discuss a sweeping Arab peace proposal, an Israeli official said today.

The US plans to allow 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help those who have fled the war.

Jordan marked the first anniversary of al-Qaida’s triple hotel bombings today, voicing a fresh resolve to fight terrorism and commemorating the 60 people who lost their lives in the attacks.

A British man was killed today when a Jordanian gunman shot at a group of foreign tourists visiting the Roman Amphitheatre in Jordan’s capital Amman.

A British tourist was reported to have been killed today when a gunman shot at a group of foreign tourists in Amman’s Roman Amphitheatre in the Jordanian capital.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will visit Jordan on Thursday for talks on reviving stalled Mideast peacemaking, Jordanian and Israeli officials said today.

A member of Hamas detained for arms smuggling said he was ordered to monitor a Jordanian intelligence officer, according to a televised confession broadcast on state TV today.

Jordan today announced the arrest of more than 20 Hamas activists for allegedly smuggling weapons to attack targets in the kingdom and warned the Palestinian Hamas-led government of the consequences of any terrorist activity.

One prisoner was killed and several policemen were wounded in clashes at an isolated hilltop jail in northern Jordan today.

Militants in Iraq tonight released a video of a Jordanian hostage, giving Jordan three days to cut ties with the Baghdad government and free a woman would-be suicide bomber involved in attacks in Amman.

A driver for the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad was kidnapped today as he drove his private car from home to work, said Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh.