Tour heads for trouble
MORE than 31 million people were displaced in their own countries by conflict, violence and disasters in 2016, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and China among the worst affected. The Democratic Republic of Congo had a spike of 922,000 new displacements caused by conflict last year, more than Syria with 824,000 US President Donald Trump is facing a promised “Day of Rage” protest from Palestinians just a day after his diplomacy in Saudi Arabia drew widespread praise from his hosts.
He also faced some criticism from his next hosts, Israel, over his weekend announcement of a $110 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, which the Jewish state considers a “hostile country”.
A Palestinian group calling itself the Supreme National Leadership Committee is seeking public demonstrations across the West Bank when the President visits tomorrow.
The committee includes various Palestinian political factions, including President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement.
Mr Trump is due to meet Mr Abbas during his visit to Israel and the West Bank.
The demonstrations are meant to draw attention to a month-long hunger strike by hundreds of prisoners being held by Israel and to protest what many Palestinians say is unfair US support for Israel. and Iraq with 659,000, said the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council. EGYPTIAN authorities have referred 48 suspected Islamic State group members to military trial over three deadly church
In a statement, the group said yesterday the Palestinian factions “affirm their rejection of the American position, bombings, the public prosecutor’s office said. Of the 48 suspects, 31 were in custody, it said. IS claimed responsibility for the three suicide attacks that targeted the churches in December and April. A TWITTER founder has which is biased in favour of the occupation”.
The Israeli Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologised for the social media platform’s role in putting Donald Trump in the White House. Evan Williams said he was ”sorry” if Twitter had – as the US President claimed – helped to sway the election. He also said the internet as a whole was “broken” and that his creation might be making things worse. prepared for Mr Trump’s imminent visit by announcing a series of conciliatory measures, including NINE people were injured during a Good Friday shooting at the Manus Island offshore immigration processing centre, it has been revealed. Australian officials have been grilled about the initial response to the shooting, which stated Papua New Guinea military personnel discharged a weapon into the air and nobody was injured. Immigration boss Michael Pezzullo told a senate committee hearing it had since become clear many more shots were fired. UK Prime Minister Theresa May will strip people of their knighthoods if they fail to meet the “standards of integrity” expected by the public. Mrs May said that if re-elected next month she would order a review of the honours system by the Cabinet Office that would also make sure local heroes got the recognition they deserved construction permits for Palestinians near their cities in parts of the West Bank that had previously been off limits.