Today In International News: December 20, 2017

Courtesy of Al-Jazeera

• The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval to the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years.

• Myanmar bans U.N. rights investigator before visit. 

• U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

• Cameroonian troops this month crossed into Nigeria in pursuit of rebels without seeking authorization from Nigeria, causing a falling-out between the governments behind the scenes.

• Virginia Democrat Shelly Simonds won a seat in the House of Delegates by 1 vote, changing the power balance in the state legislature and extending a tide of Democratic victories.

• German police arrested a 29-year-old man they said was an active member of Islamic State who was plotting a truck attack on an ice rink.

• Air raids by a Saudi-led military coalition across Yemen have killed 11 civilians, a day after Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

• More than 80 Palestinians have been injured in fresh protests across the West Bank as the Israeli army responds to protests with live fire, 2 weeks after US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

• More than 90 Somali men and women were subjected to "inhumane conditions and egregious abuse" on a failed deportation flight that lasted nearly 48 hours and was eventually forced to return to the United States earlier this month.