US blocks new draft UN statement on Palestine, Israel violence ...Kuwait

The United States on Monday blocked - for the third time in a week - the adoption of a joint UN Security Council statement calling for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence, triggering a new emergency closed-door session set for Tuesday. The text drafted by China, Tunisia and Norway was submitted late Sunday for approval Monday by the council's 15 members, as Israeli jets continued to pound the Gaza Strip and the death toll from a week of violence passed 200. The United States indicated that they "could not currently support an expression" by the Security Council, one diplomat told AFP. The Norwegian diplomatic mission to the UN announced that the Security Council wo

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