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- Bolsonaro wants Brazil’s Israel embassy in Jerusalem, says Palestine needs to be a state to have one
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has reaffirmed his commitment to move his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying no other country has the right to tell Israel where its capital should be.World News - Israel ‘abducts’ Palestinian governor of East Jerusalem & intel chief suspected of ‘kidnapping’
Israel has confirmed detaining two senior Palestinian officials in charge of running Jerusalem’s affairs and suspected of aiding a kidnapping. The Palestinian leadership has condemned the detention as a “crime” and “abduction.”World News - Australia 'open-minded' to moving Israeli embassy to Jerusalem – PM
Australia might soon follow in controversial US footsteps and relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the country's new prime minister hinted after discussing the issue with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.World News - Kosovo offers Israel an embassy in Jerusalem in exchange for recognition
The leader of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, has offered to place the embassy of his self-proclaimed state in Jerusalem, if Israel would recognize the renegade Serbian province as an independent country.World News - US ‘strongly encourages’ Paraguay not to move its embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv
Washington has urged Asuncion to think twice about the “historic relationship” between the US, Israel and Paraguay, and reconsider its decision to move the country’s Israeli embassy back to Tel Aviv.World News - Paraguay cancels embassy move to Jerusalem, Israel responds by closing its embassy in Paraguay
Paraguay will return its embassy in Israel to Tel Aviv, after the country’s previous government relocated it to Jerusalem in May. In a tit-for-tat response, Israel announced it would close its embassy in Paraguay.World News
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