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Protests against the U.S. Jerusalem decision. Protests took place Friday around the world in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
VOA's Jeff Caster reports.
Along with Israel in the West Bank, demonstrations were reported Friday in among other nations Iraq, Somalia, Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim majority country. Protesters in Jakarta marched on the U.S. embassy, carrying anti-Trump signs and chanting slogans.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza Friday during clashes in a day of rage called for by Palestinians after the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a news briefing in Paris insisted Trump's decision still leave room for peace negotiations.
"I think with respect to the rest of Jerusalem, the president indicated in his statement that his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and his direction to the State Department to begin the process of moving the embassy did not indicate any final status for Jerusalem."
Israel considers all of Jerusalem to be its capital. Palestinians claim the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.
Jeff Caster, VOA news, Washington.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Saudi Arabia Friday to curb its military intervention in Yemen, a country in the throes of a humanitarian crisis triggered by a two-year civil war.
"We would encourage them to be a bit more measured and a bit more thoughtful," Tillerson said of Saudi Arabia.
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The United Nations secretary-general has expressed his outrage after an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that killed at least a dozen Tanzanian peacekeepers and injured 40 more.
The peacekeepers were part of a special intervention force based in eastern Congo.
The U.N. chief said the attack occurred late Thursday in troubled North Kivu province. Guterres poke before the U.N. Security Council Friday.
"This is the worst attack on U.N. peacekeepers in the organization's recent history. It is another indication of the enormous sacrifices made by troop contributing countries in the service of global peace. These brave women and men are putting their lives on the line every day across the world to serve peace and to protect civilians."
The secretary-general said military reinforcements have arrived on the scene and the force commanders coordinating the mission's response.
The World Health Organization reports an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Uganda is under control weeks after first was detected.
Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.
The first case of this deadly disease in Uganda was confirmed on October 17.
World Health Organization spokeswoman Fadela Chaib says her agency immediately got to work as soon as it was notified.
"Within 24 hours of being informed by the Ugandan health authorities in early October, WHO deployed a rapid response team to the remote mountainous area.
Marburg is a highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as that of Ebola.
WHO reports three people died over the course of the outbreak, which affected two districts in eastern Uganda near the Kenyan border.
Lisa Schlein, for VOA news, Geneva.
This was the fifth outbreak of Marburg virus in the past decade.
The United Nations refugee agency says conditions are not ripe for the safe return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, the country they recently fled to escape violence and persecution.
The U.N. says some 645,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh.
Two weeks ago, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement on the voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
For more on this, watch our website. I'm Anne Ball.
That's the latest world news from VOA.