Jordan’s King Abdullah II appealed for a full ceasefire to end the war in Gaza after talks with Joe Biden, striking a discordant note with the US president, who is seeking a shorter six-week pause to allow Israel time to defeat Hamas.
Rafah, on the border with Egypt, has remained the last refuge for Palestinians fleeing Israel’s relentless bombardment elsewhere in the Gaza Strip in its four-month war against Hamas, triggered by the group’s October 7 attack.
Federation of School Bus Associations’s president Amali Munif Rahmat says that an interest-free soft loan can help them procure new buses and recruit young operators
