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The United States on Monday vetoed a draft U.N. resolution, rejecting President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The veto came after all 14 other Security Council members voted for the resolution.

The veto highlighted the isolation of the United States over the president's announcement that the U.S. embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That effectively ignores Palestinian claims on the city.

At least six people were killed and more than 30 others wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle late Monday near a security convoy in southern Afghanistan.

Officials say the bombing happened in Lashkargah, the capital of the restive Helmand province.

Hours after, Islamic State terrorists attacked an Afghan intelligence agency, training facility, in the capital, Kabul.

In Libya, the mayor of the coastal city of Misrata has been abducted and killed after returning from an overseas trip.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

Protesters set fire to the offices of the ruling party Monday in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region during widespread protests over unpaid salaries and suspected corruption.

Kurds demanding the resignation of the ruling Kurdish Democratic Party torched its offices in northern Iraq. Reporters for VOA's Kurdish Service said fires were also set at offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Change Movement, Islamic Union of Kurdistan and Islamic Group, all in Sulaimania province.

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South Africa's ruling party has elected a new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, who will likely be the party's presidential candidate in the next national election, but will Ramaphosa, who was not the outgoing president's choice, be able to overcome the massive challenges ahead for the party.

VOA's Anita Powell reports from Johannesburg.

The party's electoral commission announced the results Monday after a tense party conference in Soweto. "Comrade Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma received 2,261 votes, and comrade Cyril Ramaphosa received 2,440 votes."

Ramaphosa, a successful businessman and current deputy president, has promised to bring business-friendly policies to South Africa.

But that may not be what pushed him over the top in this tight and tense vote to lead the African National Congress party.

His opponent was Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former top diplomat and minister who was also, for 16 years, the wife of the South African president, Jacob Zuma.

Zuma is still president. His term as leader of the nation ends in 2019. But Zuma's popularity has sunk lower and lower as he dealt with one corruption scandal after another.

Anita Powell, VOA news, Johannesburg.

An Amtrak train derailed in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington Monday during its first-ever run along a faster new route. Some of its cars fell onto a busy highway below and caused "multiple fatalities."

A spokesman for the local sheriff's office told reporters "It乫s pretty horrific. There are multiple fatalities. At this point, however, nobody in any of the vehicles below were killed. The fatalities are all contained to the train."

Amtrak, the passenger train company, said that 78 passengers and five crew members were on board the train.

A district court in California has temporarily halted the deportation of scores of Cambodians who face removal after being convicted of felony crimes. About 50 were scheduled to be sent back to Cambodia on Monday.

Most fled to the U.S. as child refugees during or after the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, but never obtained full American citizenship.

Many of the detainees were born in refugee camps outside Cambodia after their parents fled the Khmer Rouge and have never been in Cambodia.

There is more on these and other late breaking and developing stories, from around the world, around the clock, at voanews.com and on the VOA news mobile app. I'm Jonathan Jones reporting from the world headquarters of the Voice of America in Washington.

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