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A 30-year-old Gaza man was killed by Israeli gunfire in the first death linked to Donald Trump's declaration recognizes the disputed city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  A second death was reported as well.  Dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were hit by live rounds or rubber-coated steel bullets, or inhaled tear gas as Israeli forces confronted Palestinian anger.  The Palestinian health ministry said at least 15 people were injured in Gaza after Israeli warplanes retaliated against an alleged missile attack. 

Members of the UN Security Council criticized Trump's decision:  Sweden said it "contradicts international law and Security Council resolutions", while Britain called the decision "unhelpful to peace".  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson played down Trump's decision on a visit to France, saying that it "did not indicate any final status for Jerusalem" and that it is up to Israel and Palestinians to "negotiate and decide" on Jerusalem's fate.  The Arab League will meet on Saturday to discuss the matter, while Turkey has called a meeting of the 57-member "Organization of Islamic Cooperation" to formulate a response.  

Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) staged one of the worst attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in recent memory:  At least 15 UN peacekeepers were killed along with five DRC troops when a local extremist group armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades overran a base in the east part of the country.  "Today is a very tragic day for the UN family," said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, "I condemn this attack unequivocally," he added, calling it a "war crime".  Most of the dead and 50 wounded were peacekeepers from Tanzania.

The UK and The European Union struck a deal on the first sets of hurdles in the Brexit.  It guarantees the rights of 3 million EU citizens in the UK and 1 million Britons living in the remaining 27 nations of the continental trading bloc.  On advancing to the next round of issues that would take the UK out of the EU, chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker warns that there is still a lot of work to complete.

Poland's conservative parliament approved a law that effectively hands the ruling (and ironically named) "Law and Justice Party" (PiS) the power to control judicial appointments and the supreme court.  Critics in Poland and across the EU condemn the law as an "erosion of democracy" that will cause Poland to "definitively cease to be a democratic state of law".  Previous attempts to pass such a bill inspired widespread street protests and warnings from the European Union.  The conservative will be empowered to appoint judges to reopen long-settled cases at will, making the judiciary a weapon the RWNJs will use for the worst forms of political score-settling - think Ukraine or Argentina, where one side wins an election and proceeds to open specious prosecutions of its political opponents. 

The election authority in Honduras has finally conceded to recount votes from from 4,753 polling stations that the opposition believes had "irregularities" after polls closed on 26 November.  Supporters of opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla believe the government is trying to steal votes to favor conservative incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez's reelection bid.  Nasralla was winning in an early count, after which the election authorities suddenly were no longer able to come up with a winner in a small country's small election.  Meanwhile, Amnesty International released a report documenting how security forces used tear gas and firearms against protesters, killing at least 14 people before police announced they would no longer be used as political attack dogs by the government.