Palace searched, Iraq to report on Dec 7

UN arms experts today inspected a sensitive Presidential palace site in Baghdad for the first time since they resumed work last week. Two se...

UN arms experts today inspected a sensitive Presidential palace site in Baghdad for the first time since they resumed work last week. Two separate disarmament teams who entered the hugewalled compound without hindrance emerged nearly two hours later but refused to talk to the Press.

However, an official from Iraq’s national monitoring directorate who accompanied the UN experts along with palace guards suggested it had all gone off without incident.

Meanwhile, Iraq said it will hand in a key declaration on its weapons programmes on December 7 but it may not include an admission that the country has weapons of mass destruction, the chief Iraqi official liaising with UN arms experts said on Tuesday.

Asked if the declaration would include any new elements, Hussam Mohammed Amin, head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate said: ‘‘Of course the declaration will have new elements but it will not include a declaration of presence of weapons of mass destruction.

Hamas under pressure to respond to Gaza peace plan as Trump says will give ‘three or four days’

Trump gives Hamas 3-4 days to accept Gaza peace plan, with a warning

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US President Donald Trump has given a tight deadline to Hamas for accepting his Gaza peace plan, warning of a “sad end” if if they refuse to accept the conditions. Palestinian militant group Hamas is yet undecided on whether to accept the peace deal proposed by US President Donald Trump on Monday.

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