More than 100 nations voted in favour of a UN resolution calling for the US to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, defying Donald Trump, who had threatened to cut aid to countries that supported the motion.
The resolution saying that any change to the city’s status was “null and void” was requested by Arab and Muslim countries outraged at the US president’s decision and passed by 128 votes to 9 with 35 abstentions.
Mr Trump recognised Jerusalem as the Israeli capital this month and said he planned to move the US embassy to the divided city, a decision that reversed seven decades of American policy.
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