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WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has informed the Palestinian government that its primary office in Washington D.C. will be closed, deepening a rift with the Palestinians and drawing cries of a dangerous escalation from their leadership. The move, which U.S. officials were yet to confirm on Monday morning, comes after the White House said over the weekend that it was cutting $25 million in funding for health services in heavily-Palestinian East Jerusalem.Senior Palestinian diplomat Dr. Saeb Erekat confirmed in a statement released Monday that the U.S. government had informed the Palestinian Authority that the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, effectively the Palestinian parliament, would be shuttered. We have been notified by a US official of their decision to cl dunks shoes ose the Palestinian Mission to the US. This is yet another affirmation of the Trump Administration s policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people, including by cutting fina dunk panda ncial support for humanitarian services including health and education, Erekat said in the statement.Closing the PLO office in D.C. will leave the Palestinians without a formal presence in the U.S. capital. Erekat said the dangerous escalation shows that the US is willing to disband the international system in order to protect Israeli crimes an adidas originals d attacks against the land and people of Palestine as well as against peace and security in the rest of our region. Trump says no aid for Palestinians until they back peace de Quig Hillary Clinton rsquo handling of Boko Haram: Are critics justified
Updated 6:25 p.m. ETThe Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two days earlier in an area held by the militants.The coalition force set up checkpoints and distributed fliers with the sailors pictures and are offering thousands of dollars in rewards for t stanley uk heir return. There were conflicting reports about whether the body of one of the two had been recovered.U.S. and NATO officials confirmed that , after an armored sport utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. NATO officials were unable to say what they were doing in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan. Special Section: AfghanistanTaliban stanley becher spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid also said the pair drove into an area under insurgent control, prompting a brief gunfight in which one American was killed and the other was captured. He said both were taken to a safe area and are in the hands of the Taliban. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the two sailors, members of a team training Afghans, left their base at Camp Julian near Kabul in an SUV for the relatively short drive to Camp Eggers. Their badly shot up vehicle was found 80 miles south of Kabul. Why they stray stanley cup ed so far and why they drove into Taliban-controlled territory by themselves 151; a blatant violation of security procedures 151; remain unknown.Another local official, Abdul Wali, the deputy head of t
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has informed the Palestinian government that its primary office in Washington D.C. will be closed, deepening a rift with the Palestinians and drawing cries of a dangerous escalation from their leadership. The move, which U.S. officials were yet to confirm on Monday morning, comes after the White House said over the weekend that it was cutting $25 million in funding for health services in heavily-Palestinian East Jerusalem.Senior Palestinian diplomat Dr. Saeb Erekat confirmed in a statement released Monday that the U.S. government had informed the Palestinian Authority that the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, effectively the Palestinian parliament, would be shuttered. We have been notified by a US official of their decision to cl dunks shoes ose the Palestinian Mission to the US. This is yet another affirmation of the Trump Administration s policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people, including by cutting fina dunk panda ncial support for humanitarian services including health and education, Erekat said in the statement.Closing the PLO office in D.C. will leave the Palestinians without a formal presence in the U.S. capital. Erekat said the dangerous escalation shows that the US is willing to disband the international system in order to protect Israeli crimes an adidas originals d attacks against the land and people of Palestine as well as against peace and security in the rest of our region. Trump says no aid for Palestinians until they back peace de Quig Hillary Clinton rsquo handling of Boko Haram: Are critics justified
Updated 6:25 p.m. ETThe Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two days earlier in an area held by the militants.The coalition force set up checkpoints and distributed fliers with the sailors pictures and are offering thousands of dollars in rewards for t stanley uk heir return. There were conflicting reports about whether the body of one of the two had been recovered.U.S. and NATO officials confirmed that , after an armored sport utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. NATO officials were unable to say what they were doing in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan. Special Section: AfghanistanTaliban stanley becher spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid also said the pair drove into an area under insurgent control, prompting a brief gunfight in which one American was killed and the other was captured. He said both were taken to a safe area and are in the hands of the Taliban. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the two sailors, members of a team training Afghans, left their base at Camp Julian near Kabul in an SUV for the relatively short drive to Camp Eggers. Their badly shot up vehicle was found 80 miles south of Kabul. Why they stray stanley cup ed so far and why they drove into Taliban-controlled territory by themselves 151; a blatant violation of security procedures 151; remain unknown.Another local official, Abdul Wali, the deputy head of t
