JORDAN

Jordan’s King Halts Planned Fuel Price Hike 

Jordan’s King ‘Abd Allah has blocked his government’s recent decision to raise the price of gasoline and the low-grade diesel fuel used primarily by the country’s poor, in response to small pockets of unrest that broke out across the country over the weekend.  

On 31 August, Jordanian authorities announced a decision to raise the price of 90-octane gasoline from JD0.70...