Trump's tax bill: US Senate passes screw the middleclass legislation
The US Senate has approved the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax system in more than three decades.
Republicans say the tax cuts for corporations, small businesses and individuals will boost economic growth.
Democrats, who all voted against it, say it is designed to benefit the ultra-rich at the expense of the national deficit.
For final approval, the legislation must go back to the House on Wednesday for a procedural issue.
If it passes, as expected, it will be President Donald Trump's first major legislative triumph.
US will 'take names of those who vote to reject Jerusalem recognition'
UN members warned Donald Trump will take issue personally if countries back draft resolution rejecting US decision
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has warned UN members she will be “taking names” of countries that vote to reject Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In a letter seen by the Guardian, Haley told countries – including European delegations – that she will report back to the US president with the names of those who support a draft resolution rejecting the US move at the UN general assembly on Thursday, adding that Trump took the issue personally.
Haley writes: “As you consider your vote, I encourage you to know the president and the US take this vote personally.
North Korea 'executes official in charge of nuclear test site'
Hermit state recently conducted sixth and most powerful nuclear test
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly executed the official responsible for the country's nuclear test site.
Park In-young was the chief of Bureau 131, a division of the ruling Workers Party of Korea's Central Committee tasked with supervising military facilities such as the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility and the Sohae Satellite Launching Station.
The official was dismissed and then executed as part of a recent purge, an unnamed North Korean defector told Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
Israel arrests Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi over soldier slapping
The 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her mother were arrested during a night raid after a video of the girl hitting soldiers went viral. Despite her age, Tamimi is already well-known for her protests against the Israeli army.
The Israeli army arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian girl on Tuesday after a video showing her slapping Israeli soldiers went viral on social media.
Shot on Friday, the video shows the suspect Ahed Tamimi (above) and another Palestinian teen approaching two Israeli soldiers – then shoving, kicking and slapping them while the soldiers remained relatively impassive before moving backwards.
A second video showed the girls asking the soldiers to move, since they were blocking the steps to a family home in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank. The incident occurred the same day as clashes in the West Bank over US President Donald Trump's decision to move his country's embassy to Jerusalem.
A man in Algeria attacked a naked female statue with a hammer
Armed with a hammer and chisel, a man started attacking a statue on a fountain in the northern Algerian town of Sétif on Monday morning. The Ain El Fouara fountain is a symbolic statue in the town that has been vandalised before by strict Islamists. Passers-by watched as the man chiselled off the face and breasts of the female figure, before he was arrested.
Several videos of the incident rapidly started circulating on social media. In one of them, a bearded man wearing a qamis (a long tunic) starts hitting the chest of the statue with his hammer and chisel. Onlookers try to stop him at one point, some of them throwing things at him, while others actually hit him with sticks. One man eventually manages to get up on the statue with a stick in his hand, forcing the man to protect himself, which allows another man to wrestle his hammer off him. One video shows police officers restraining people trying to attack the man who had defaced the statue.
Top court: Uber should be regulated like a taxi company
Europe's top court has ruled that Uber should be regulated as a transportation company -- and not a tech firm.
The decision by the European Court of Justice is a major setback for Uber, which had said that it should not be subjected to the same regulations as traditional taxi companies.
Uber argued that it should instead be treated as technology platform that connects drivers and riders.
The startup said in a statement that the ruling would "not change things in most EU countries where we already operate under transportation law."
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