Kenyan minister challenges UK ban in High Court News
Kenyan minister challenges UK ban in High Court

[JURIST] Kenyan Transport Minister Chris Murungaru has asked the UK High Court [UK Court Service website] to review a July UK government decision to ban [BBC News report] him from entering the country. British authorities did not announce the reason [Nation report] for the ban, but it has been widely speculated that it was due to Murungaru's links to corruption [JURIST report]. He was involved in several public disputes with former UK High Commissioner in Kenya Sir Edward Clay, who has been critical of the Kenyan government's record on corruption. Murungaru had been traveling frequently to the UK for medical treatment following surgery in April, and his attorneys argued that the ban violated his human rights. BBC News 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.

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