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- At least one person was killed in clashes with Israeli troops when thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Palestinian president said Washington could no longer be a peace broker.
- A federal judge in Argentina indicted former President Cristina Fernandez for treason and asked for her arrest for allegedly covering up Iran’s possible role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
- The Israeli military said that an aircraft and a tank had targeted two posts belonging to militants in the Gaza Strip after three rockets were launched at Israel.
- Japan is to acquire medium-range, air-launched cruise missiles, capable of striking North Korea, a controversial purchase of what will become the longest-range munitions of a country that has renounced the right to wage war.
- China warned its nationals in Pakistan of plans for a series of imminent “terrorist attacks” on Chinese targets there. Thousands of Chinese workers have gone to Pakistan following Beijing’s pledge to spend $57 billion there on projects in President Xi Jinping’s signature “Belt and Road” development plan, which aims to link China with the Middle East and Europe.
- A police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed man in the US state of Arizona has been found not guilty. Body camera footage of the incident, released after the verdict, showed Mr. Shaver on his knees asking officers not to shoot him just before he was killed.
- The Trump administration is asking Saudi Arabia to temper its actions with regard to Yemen, Qatar and Lebanon amid reports of new civilian deaths in Yemen. Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, called on Saudi Arabia to be "measured" in its military operations in Yemen.
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