Jordan’s King Hussein may join the Middle East summit taking place near Washington, according to a U.S. State Department official. The king has been responding well to cancer treatment and is planning to travel to his Maryland home to rest, added the official. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department issued a statement denying an Israeli report that the cancer afflicting Hussein is terminal.
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