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(Worthy News) – Jared Kushner, a senior White House advisor and son-in-law to U.S. President Donald Trump, is traveling through the Middle East this week reportedly to gauge support for an American attempt to strike a deal in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kushner’s trip was set to include visits to Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to Al Jazeera.

Multiple reports suggest that details of the Trump administration’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be revealed only after Israel’s April elections. [ Source: CNBC (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday’s general election show.

The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of just under four million votes.

Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. [ Source: BBC (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – United Methodist Church leaders on Tuesday voted to keep in place bans on same-sex weddings and LGBTQ clergy members.

Church delegates voted 449-374 against the so-called One Church Plan, which would have allowed individual churches to decide whether to perform same-sex weddings and allow LGBTQ clergy. The Traditional Plan won support instead. [ Source: UPI (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution terminating President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to secure funding for a border wall.

Lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled House voted 245-182 in favor of the measure, with the support of every Democrat and 13 Republicans.

Despite the Republican support, the votes in favor of the resolution on Tuesday didn’t reach the two-thirds threshold to overturn a presidential veto, which is likely to occur if the bill is passed by the Senate. [ Source: UPI (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – U.S. envoy Elliott Abrams said Tuesday the Trump administration will seek a U.N. Security Council vote this week on a resolution calling for Venezuela’s government to let in humanitarian aid and to hold free elections, and then sparred with Russia over possible U.S. military intervention in the politically divided country.

Abrams accused “armed gangs, thugs and criminals released from prisons” of being mobilized to control Venezuela’s borders – leading to the burning of humanitarian aid and Venezuelans being shot, beaten and killed as they tried to bring in food and medicine while President Nicolas Maduro “literally was dancing in Caracas.”

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza responded by accusing the United States of organizing and financing “a well-orchestrated operation” to violate his country’s sovereignty that Venezuelan armed forces and police “were able to contain … without using any kind of deadly force.” [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – President Trump said Wednesday he’ll know very soon whether ‘my friend Kim Jong Un’ is willing to abandon his nuclear weapons program in return for economic prosperity similar to Vietnam, the host country for their second summit.

“Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth,” Mr. Trump tweeted from Hanoi early Wednesday, local time. “North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize.”

He said of North Korea’s leader, “The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon — Very Interesting!” [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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