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Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since U.S. President Donald Trump took office signaling he could be more accommodating toward such projects than his predecessor.
Israel could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in annexed east Jerusalem in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it welcomed the UN Security Council resolution that demands an end to the Israeli settlement building in occupied Palestinian territories, Tehran Times daily reported.
China's five-year treasury bond futures opened lower on Tuesday, with the contract for settlement in December 2016 opening 0.054 percent lower at 101.525 yuan (about 15.2 U.S. dollars).
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Monday said that a China-Russia declaration on the promotion of international law showed that the two countries agreed on dispute settlement mechanisms.
The decisions taken by a tribunal set up by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) are unfair, and China is justified in rejecting them, a Houston-based professor told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Uber will continue to classify drivers as contractors and will pay drivers up to $100 million
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated Friday he will accept a court-proposed settlement deal with the prefectural government of Okinawa aimed at bringing an end to a protracted legal spat over landfill work for the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Japan's southernmost prefecture.
A senior Palestinian official said on Thursday that the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the UN General Assembly was repeated and didn't bring anything new.
The yuan-ruble settlement would help further deepen financial cooperation between China and Russia, said Zhao Lianjie, director of the Bank of China's Russian branch.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged the international community to make constructive efforts to promote the political progress in the conflict-torn Syria.
Israel's opposition leader promised on Tuesday to revive peace talks with the Palestinians and curtail Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, should he win the upcoming March 17 elections.
The United States on Wednesday reiterated its opposition to Israel's decision to build more settler homes in East Jerusalem, saying the move could "exacerbate " an already-tense situation there.
A nine-year-old Israeli girl was seriously wounded Saturday night during a shooting attack near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
McDonald's Israel has refused an offer to open a branch in a new mall being built in the settlement city of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Calcalist economic daily reported on Wednesday.
The yuan is now being used more often in cross-border settlements, although challenges still remain.
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