World IN BRIEF : JORDAN : Prime Minister Shuffles Cabinet

Prime Minister Mudar Badran reshuffled his Cabinet, appointing a new foreign minister and bringing five members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood into the government. A government statement said former Foreign Minister Taher Masri would replace Marwan Kassem as minister of foreign affairs. Masri, chairman of the lower house of Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, has shown strong support for Iraq’s stand in the Persian Gulf crisis. The government has been under pressure to bring the Muslim Brotherhood into the Cabinet because it forms the largest bloc in Parliament.