French judiciary leak may have accelerated Belgian anti-terror raids News
French judiciary leak may have accelerated Belgian anti-terror raids

[JURIST Europe] Belgium Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx [official profile] said Thursday that Belgian anti-terror raids held Tuesday night, which resulted in 15 arrests [JURIST report], were accelerated in order to stem the effects of a leak reported [RTL report, in French] in the French media. Authorities in France, led by French Justice Minister Pascal Clement [official profile, in French], have begun an investigation into the leak which is rumored to have come from a member of the French judiciary. The arrests were made in connection to the November 9 suicide attack in Iraq by a 38-year old Belgian woman now identified as Muriel Degauque [Times profile]. Degauque had converted to Islam and was married to an Islamic radical who was also killed during an attempted suicide attack. Expatica has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigns during Vietnam Conflict

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