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- President Donald Trump told Arab leaders that he intends to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a move that would break with decades of U.S. policy and risks fueling further unrest in the Middle East.
- Turkey's president has warned it could sever ties with Israel if the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as its capital. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such a move would cross a "red line" for Muslims.
- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered a message of support to European allies in Brussels but their concerns about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy have created a rift on a host of issues.
- Houthi rebels are moving to tighten their grip on Yemen's capital, Sanaa, a day after they killed their former ally ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Residents said new checkpoints had been set up in the city and there were reports of arrests of Saleh supporters.
- Israel again fired missiles at a Syrian military facility near Damascus, Syria, according to a war monitor, the second reported Israeli strike in Syria in the past week.
- Venezuela’s powerful former oil czar Rafael Ramirez said he resigned from his job as U.N. envoy on orders of President Nicolas Maduro. President Maduro fired Ramirez, who was thought to have presidential ambitions, and summoned him back to Caracas from New York.
- Spain’s Supreme Court withdrew an international arrest warrant for Catalonia’s former leader, now in self-imposed exile in Belgium after an illegal independence referendum, in a move to bring his case back solely into Spanish jurisdiction.
- Russia has communication channels with North Korea open and Moscow is ready to exert its influence on Pyongyang.
- Russia has been banned from competing at next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea by the International Olympic Committee.
- The United Nations human rights chief has said an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims by state forces in Myanmar cannot be ruled out. He listed alleged abuses against the Rohingya, including "killing by random firing of bullets, use of grenades, shooting at close range, stabbings, beatings to death and the burning of houses with families inside”.
- The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries can go into full effect, pending legal challenges.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has reportedly told some employees who pulled in higher paychecks, may need to return part of their extra pay after working overtime to respond to the series of natural disasters that hit the U.S. earlier this year.
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