17 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 02:52, updated 14 h ago
Jordan arrests three over church attack: state TV
Photo: United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Neutral summary
Jordanian security forces arrested three men on Monday over a Friday attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate, about 120 km southwest of Amman, that killed nine people and wounded dozens during a funeral. The Public Security Directorate said the suspects were located in an abandoned house and, after refusing to surrender and firing on police, were wounded and arrested in a shootout lasting about three hours; no security personnel were hurt. Director of Public Security Major General Abdullah Al-Maaytah said the suspects were two brothers and their brother-in-law, identified as Hazza Zaidan Mohammed, Meshal Zaidan Mohammed and Ahmad Sami Hussein, and that they had no known ties to other groups. Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya described them as extremist terrorists, and said authorities were reviewing what led young people toward extremism. King Abdullah II ordered an "iron fist" response and a review of security procedures. No group has claimed responsibility. One suspect was reported in critical condition.
Where accounts differ. Death tolls differ: UNB and CNA report nine dead, while Al Jazeera cites eight killed per the Ministry of Health, with the ninth dying later; France 24 names the village as Hammoud and Al Jazeera as Al-Jadeeda for the hideout.
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Channel NewsAsia (CNA)
Al Jazeera English
South China Morning Post
France 24
Written by AI from these outlets' articles: facts they report, claims attributed, numbers checked against the sources. It may still contain errors; read the originals.
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
Channel NewsAsia (CNA)Neutral
Reports the arrests factually in headline and narration, attributing the shootout account and evaluative language to Jordanian security officials.
Seventeen of the seventeen outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, one framing
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 17 of 17
Jordan nabs three suspects over deadly shooting attack on church
The Times of Israel
How the 2 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesSome evaluative words in quotes, in proportion to the event. Evidence 21
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Source selectionReporter voice
the directorate said in a statement carried on state media
The arrest and shootout account rests solely on the security agency's statement, with no independent corroboration.
2Word choiceAttributed quote voice
just fate
The directorate's evaluative phrase about wounded suspects is quoted and clearly attributed.
3Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
a relatively stable state in the Middle East
A mild evaluative characterisation in the paper's narration, though conventional.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 1 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 2
Every headline, in order
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The Times of Israel
Middle East
First to report
Neutral
Jordan nabs three suspects over deadly shooting attack on church
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Channel NewsAsia (CNA)
Asia Pacific
Analysed above
Neutral
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Al Jazeera English
Middle East
Neutral
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Samakal
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The New Arab
Middle East
Neutral
Jordan arrests three suspects over deadly Karak church attack
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CBC News
US & Canada
Neutral
Jordan arrests 3 suspects in deadly church attack, state media says
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Dawn
South Asia
Neutral
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Arab News Middle East Neutral
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France 24
Europe
Neutral
Jordan arrests three following deadly terror attack on church
Headline changed 2 times; now
Jordan's strikes on Syria over church terror attack kill several civilians
26 Oct, 22:00 -
The Daily Star
Bangladesh
Neutral
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.