Jordan's king cancels fuel price rise in face of protest

By: Ranya Kadri and Isabel Kershner, NY Times, September 3, 2012 King Abdullah II of Jordan moved quickly to block a recent increase in fuel prices after angry protesters took to the streets over the weekend, raising the specter of renewed social and political unrest in the cash-poor kingdom. By Saturday night, about 600 people, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, were demonstrating in the capital, while about 3,000 staged demonstrations in Irbid, a large city north of Amman, and protests took place to the south in the cities of Maan and Karak, with some demonstrators displaying strong antigovernment slogans.

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