[03:34.68]Previously it had no role in forming governments.
[03:37.32]The new cabinet will face a task of implementing measures to try to reduce Jordan’s three-billion-dollar deficit.
[03:44.01]Here is Dale Gavlak.
[03:45.52]Reform-minded Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has merged several portfolios to cut spending in the cash-strapped kingdom
[03:52.61]which is facing a three-billion-dollar deficit.
[03:55.71]Jordan hopes to cut its budget deficit by about a third this year to curb the impact of soaring fuel import cost
[04:03.24]and high social spending designed to deter the kind of uprising scene in neighboring Arab states.
[04:09.05]Late last year, Prime Minister Ensour ended fuel subsidies, triggering nationwide protest, some demanding that the king stepped down.
[04:18.47]French police have foiled the thief to the elephant tusks from the Natural History Museum in Paris.
[04:23.83]A 20-year-old man broke into the museum overnight
[04:26.65]and used the chainsaw to remove one of the tusks from an elephant that once belong to the French King Louis XIV.
[04:33.27]The man fled when the museum’s alarms went off.
[04:36.14]He was caught by police in a nearby street.
[04:38.50]Museum’s staff say they are confident the tusk can be restored.
[04:42.53]An Indian restaurant in Britain has created an Easter egg