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Israel pushes for UN action against Iran over deadly ship attack
The MT Mercer Street tanker was struck Thursday in the northern Indian Ocean, killing two crew members, in what the United States said was a drone-style attack.
Pegasus has been implicated in possible mass surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders and 14 heads of state. Their phone numbers were among some 50,000 potential surveillance targets on a list leaked to rights group Amnesty International and Paris-based Forbidden Stories.
That evaluation, he told Brazil's Globo TV during a visit to Rio, has caused "a revolution in relations with the Arab world."
Morrison also confirmed Australia’s support for a two-state solution with a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
Brazil exports $16 billion annually to the Middle East and Turkey, with just 3% going to Israel, according to government statistics.
Under the peace treaty, two border areas were recognised to be under Jordanian sovereignty but gave Israel special provisions to use the land and allow Israelis free access.
While many Egyptians welcome the absence of war, they remain hostile to Israel.
Reading from what he wrote in the visitors’ book after the ceremony, Duterte said: “Never again.”
TV personality and model Shashi Naidoo has vowed to return to Israel one day, after being banned from the country for a decade.
The popular model and actress was interrogated at the Israel-Jordan border and refused entry after already being warned by Israel before she left South Africa that she would not be allowed to enter.
Hostilities escalated last week, with Palestinian gunfire killing an Israeli soldier and Israel’s military killing three Hamas fighters and a fourth Palestinian.
Hamas said it had agreed to the truce with Israel, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians, three of them Hamas fighters.
Israel also cut the area fishing boats are allowed to operate off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast and blacklisted what it described as a pro-Hamas TV channel.
The Western-backed Palestinian Authority headed by President Mahmoud Abbas has limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank where Israel retains overall security control.
The General Assembly adopted a resolution with 120 votes in favour, eight against and 45 abstentions.
A senior Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had informed Trump at a 5 March meeting about alleged evidence seized by Israel.
Tehran dismissed Netanyahu as “the boy who cried wolf”, and called his presentation propaganda.
The United States has threatened air strikes against Syria over the use of chemical weapons that Syria and its ally Russia deny.
Among the victims was a video journalist and two teenage boys aged 16 and 17.