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Jerusalem row: Clashes erupt over Trump move Violence has flared between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting at Donald Trump's contentious recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Clashes erupted in the occupied West Bank and over the Israeli-Gaza border, and there were scuffles in Jerusalem. More than 200 Palestinians were hurt, Palestinian medical sources said. Tensions are high in the wake of Mr Trump's announcement. His policy shift was hailed by Israel but condemned across the Arab and Islamic world. Western allies of the US have also disavowed the move, which reversed decades of US neutrality on the status of Jerusalem. Israel has always regarded Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem - occupied by Israel in the 1967 war - as the capital of a future Palestinian state. In recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the US became the first country to do so since the foundation of the state in 1948. In the West Bank, Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in the cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, as well as smaller locations. Israel had deployed extra battalions to the West Bank in anticipation of violence after Palestinian leaders called for protests after Friday prayers. In East Jerusalem there were scuffles as police pushed back hundreds of demonstrators outside the Old City. The ancient walled area, containing contentious holy sites, is historically a flashpoint for violence. At least 217 Palestinians were wounded in the confrontations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian medics said. Injuries were also reported in Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire after protesters threw stones at Israeli army posts on the border. Addressing the Drug Epidemic The United States is in the midst of its most severe drug epidemic since the 1980s. Today, more people are dying from drug overdoses than from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined, said President Donald Trump: “Last year, we lost at least 64,000 Americans to overdoses. That’s 175 lost American lives per day. That’s seven lost lives per hour in our country. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause og unintentional death in the United States by far.” “Endding the epidemic will require mobilization of government, local communities, and private organizations.It wil require the resolve of our entire country”,said President Trump. The U.S. Department of State plays a key role in this effort. That’s because the crisis is fueled by heroin and synthetic opioids that were produced overseas, while transnational criminal organizations move this deadly product into the United States. For these reasons, the national strategy to respond to this crisis must include an international component, said Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Jim Walsh. Already, we are seeing some successes. At the request of the United States, the United Nations recently placed two chemicals used to make the drug fentanyl on an international list of controlled substances. Since 2015, due in part to U.S.requests, China has taken unprecedented action, controlling 138narcotic substances. The State Department is also using foreign assistance to strengthen Mexico’s capacity to interdict illegal drugs. This helps improve security along our shared border against the cross-border distribution of heroin and sunthetic drugs. These efforts, along with a slew of new tools developed by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, which address addiction and demand for drugs, will also heip address the opioid crisis domestically. IOC suspends Russian team from 2018 Winter Games, says ‘clean athletes’ can compete under Olympic flag The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday it has barred Russia's Olympic team from the upcoming Winter Games in South Korea for a systematic doping scheme. Under the suspension, officials from the Russian ministry of sport are barred from attending the games. The IOC has also prohibited displaying the Russian flag or playing the national anthem at the opening ceremony. Led by former Swiss president Samuel Schmid, the 17-month long investigation into the state-backed doping plot resulted in Tuesday's ruling. "The systemic manipulation of the anti-doping rules and system in Russia, through the Disappearing Positive Methodology and during the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014, as well as the various levels of administrative, legal and contractual responsibility, resulting from the failure to respect the respective obligations of the various entities involved," the IOC said in a statement. While the most severe ruling in Olympic history, the IOC will allow some Russian athletes to compete. Any Russian athletes considered clean "to the satisfaction" of an IOC committee may petition for special permission to compete in neutral uniforms. All official records will hold that Russia won zero medals at the 2018 Winter Games. Russian state media stated it will not broadcast the Olympics without the government team's participation, Reuters reported. Russian Olympic ban right and necessary 3 Respect is one of the core values of Olympism and Russia ignoring this is why the nation has been ejected from February’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang. It is about regard for the rules and regulations, fair play and others; the fight against unethical behaviour like doping is obviously a significant part. The International Olympic Committee, confronted with evidence of rampant drug use by hundreds of the country’s athletes and tampering by sports officials of urine samples, took the historic step of banning the nation’s participation under the Russian flag. Such punishment is unprecedented, but is also right and necessary to uphold the integrity of the Olympic movement. The ruling is also a surprise; Russia is a core IOC member and has vehemently denied findings by a series of investigations of a state-sponsored system of cheating. President Vladimir Putin has claimed the accusations are an attempt by the United States to undermine his country and affect the outcome of presidential elections in March. But such claims cannot ignore the reality that no other country has had so many athletes suspended or banned for doping offences. The decision by the IOC’s executive committee came after pouring over a report looking at the London Olympic Games in 2012 and Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 that concluded that there had been a “systemic manipulation of the anti-doping system in Russia” that was being directed by the country’s sports ministry. Russian athletes who have no doping record will still be able to compete in South Korea, but only under the Olympic flag. That means for the first time at any Olympic games, Russia will win no medals. A US$15 million fine has been imposed on the Russian Olympic committee, many high-ranking Russian members have been removed from the IOC and a lifetime ban has been slapped on former sports minister Vitaly Mutko, now a deputy prime minister. The actions could be seen as redemption for the IOC’s much-criticised decision before the Rio Olympic Games last year, when, despite similar doping allegations, it left the participation of Russian sports people up to the individual international sporting federations. There has been no such buck-passing this time and Russia has been given the clearest of messages about doping. The ban was necessary to assure sports people who compete fairly that their honesty is being safeguarded – although some at Pyeongchang may disagree with Russians participating. But it was also essential for the Olympic movement, with its reputation already tainted by corruption, commercialism and, of course, doping. Its image has been bolstered with the edict that cheating will not be tolerated.