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P2 Xi’s book achieves global impactThe book on governance set a record in China’s 40-yr publicationhistory in June, with 6.25m copies in 22 languages in print worldwide

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Creative December offers cultural feastThe 13th Shenzhen Creative December kicked off yesterday, with 195 cultural activities to be held throughout the month

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Line 11 train hits pile that pierced tunnel

Thousands of morning riders on Line 11 from Futian to Bitou were stranded at stations yesterday as part of the line had to suspend service due to an illegal ground piling project that pierced the tunnel near Houhai Station

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President Xi Jinping said yesterday that the country will create more opportunities and make a greater contribution for the world, in a congratulatory letter to the 2017 Fortune Global Forum, which opened in Guangzhou yesterday

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A 20-year-old man appeared in court yesterday accused of plotting to kill British PM Theresa May by fi rst detonating an explosive device to get into her offi ce

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Russia was banned Tuesday from the 2018 Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee over its state-orchestrated doping program, but clean Russian athletes will be allowed to compete under an Olympic fl ag

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People stand at an observation point overlooking the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday. SD-Agencies

TRUMP TO RECOGNIZE TRUMP TO RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL: US OFFICIALSAS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL: US OFFICIALSU.S. senior offi cials said Tues-day that U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to recog-nize Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel on Wednesday U.S. time and move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Trump’s move is likely to spark further tensions in the Middle East and undermine the U.S. standing as a peace mediator of the Palestine-Israel issue.

Trump “will recognize Jeru-salem as the capital of Israel,” the offi cials told reporters at a tele-conference, explaining that the U.S. president “views this as a recognition of reality, both historical reality and ... modern reality.”

Trump would also “direct the State Department to begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from its current loca-tion in Tel Aviv to a site in Jeru-salem,” said the offi cials on the condition of anonymity, adding this will take years to fi nish.

“That does not mean the embassy will move tomorrow,” they said, adding that there are

about 1,000 personnel in the Tel Aviv embassy. “It will take some time to fi nd a site, address security concerns, design a new facility, fi nd a new facility ... and build it, so this is not an instan-taneous process.”

In 1995, former U.S. Presi-dent Bill Clinton signed a law requiring that the U.S. Embassy in Israel be relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, unless the president issues a waiver every six months.

Since Clinton, all presidents have signed the waiver, believing the city’s fate should be decided through negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

This week marks a turn-ing point for Trump, who last signed the waiver in June. He vowed during his presidential campaign last year to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel.

The offi cials said Trump will continue to sign the waiver until preparations for the embassy move are complete.

Israeli security forces were “preparing” for clashes with Pal-estinians in East Jerusalem and

the West Bank ahead of Trump’s announcement, a military offi cial told local media yesterday.

Palestinian offi cials have warned that the move will “kill” any chance for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, who consider East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

Hundreds of Palestinians dem-onstrated in Gaza city yesterday against a possible move by the U.S. to change the status quo of Jerusalem.

The Arab League decided yesterday to hold an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers Saturday to discuss the Arab action regarding the possible U.S. recognition.

King Abdullah II of Jordan yesterday warned of serious consequences of Trump’s deci-sion on the stability and security of the Middle East, adding that such a measure will undermine the peace process.

The king also stressed that the issue of Jerusalem needs to be settled as part of a compre-hensive solution that leads to

the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jeru-salem as its capital that lives side by side with Israel.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the ultimate questions for the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, which has been stalled since April 2014 following nine months of U.S.-brokered talks without major progress.

Israel has controlled the west-ern part of Jerusalem since it was founded in 1948.

East Jerusalem is a predomi-nantly Palestinian territory, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it shortly later. The annexation was never rec-ognized by the international community.

Jerusalem is a site holy to both Muslims and Jews. The Old City in eastern Jerusalem is home to the al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (“the Nobel Sanctu-ary”) and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Jordan is the custodian of the compound.

(Xinhua)

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