INTERNATIONAL The US Congress has paved the way for the administration of President Joe Biden to rejoin Unesco, setting the stage for a potential political battle over the UN cultural organisation’s recognition of a Palestinian state. During President Barack Obama’s administration, the US cut off funding to the body over[…]
Arab states will soon embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, Reuters reported Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. Six Arab foreign ministers met in Amman on[…]
President Donald Trump has announced that the US formally recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will begin the process of moving its embassy to the city, breaking with decades of US policy. In a much anticipated speech in Washington on Wednesday, Trump reversed decades of US policy in[…]
The Palestinian leadership has presented changes to a UN draft resolution that could set a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary of State John Kerry he would press ahead with a resolution calling for a peace deal with Israel within a[…]
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