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8 people arrested over Wednesday’s fatal attack on the British Houses of Parliament are being held on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts according to police. The UK government insists there was no intelligence failure despite the revelation that the killer, 52-year-old Khalid Masood, had previously been investigated by intelligence services. Masood was shot dead after driving a car into 30 pedestrians, killing 2 before stabbing a police officer to death.
Republican leaders have delayed putting Donald Trump’s planned healthcare reforms to a vote in the US Congress in what will be seen as a major setback for the President. Enough lawmakers from the Republican Party had earlier signaled they would join Democrats in opposing the bill that it was widely considered likely to fail.
Donald Trump’s controversial nominee to be the next US ambassador to Israel has been approved by the US Senate. David Friedman had previously both criticized the idea of a Palestinian state and supported Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank. Almost all Democratic Senators voted against his nomination, but his Republican supporters regard him as an advocate of strong US-Israeli ties.
The joint operation by the US FBI and Israeli police has led to the arrest of a teenager on suspicion of making a series of bomb threats against places used or owned by Jewish people in the United States. Detectives say the man is Jewish and lives in Israel but holds the citizenship of both countries.
The former President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and 13 other officials have been ordered to stand trial on charges of financial mismanagement. They’re accused of ordering a sale of mispriced government debt that lost the country hundreds of millions of dollars.
The world’s largest artificial sun, an array of powerful lamps generating a beam ten thousand times stronger than the ray of sunlight, has been switched on in Germany. Scientists hope the invention will ultimately enable them to extract hydrogen from water, creating a green fuel of the future.
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據警方消息，周三英國議會大廈發生致命恐襲後，有8人因涉嫌籌劃恐怖主義行動被逮捕羈押。英國政府堅稱不存在情報失誤的問題，雖然外界已經知道52歲的殺人兇手馬蘇德此前曾被情報機構調查過。馬蘇德在被擊斃前，先是駕車撞向30位行人並導致2人死亡，之後又將1名警員刺死。
共和黨領導層推遲了川普的新版醫改法案在美國國會的投票，此事被視為川普任職總統後所遭受的一次重挫。此前已有許多共和黨議員表示他們會跟民主黨一起反對這次議案，因此人們普遍認為川普的醫改法案很可能不會被通過。
美國參議院通過了川普提名的備受爭議的下一任美國駐以色列大使人選。戴維·弗裡德曼此前批評建立巴勒斯坦國的主張，並且贊成猶太人在所佔領的西岸建立定居點。幾乎所有民主黨參議員對他的提名都投了反對票，但其共和黨的支持者則認為他是加強美以關係的倡導者。
美國聯邦調查局和以色列警方採取聯合行動，逮捕了一名十幾歲的青年。該青年涉嫌在美國的猶太人地區製造一系列炸彈威脅事件。警方表示，該名男子為猶太人並居住在以色列，但他同時擁有兩國國籍。
阿根廷前總統克裡斯蒂娜·費爾南德斯·基什內爾及13名官員因財務管理不善，被勒令接受庭審。他們被指控以不合理的價格出售國債，導致阿根廷損失了上億美元。
世界最大的人造太陽在德國升空運行，大量強力聚光燈架設在一起可產生比太陽光能量強1萬倍的光線。科學家希望這項發明最終能讓他們從水中提取出氫，從而創造出未來的綠色能源。
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