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#BREAKING Trump says US recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara

#BREAKING Kushner says 'inevitability' that Saudi Arabia will also recognize Israel

#BREAKING Morocco confirms "resumption" of diplomatic relations with Israel

#BREAKING Morocco king lauds "historic" US recognition of sovereignty over Western Sahara

#BREAKING Israeli PM hails "historic" Morocco normalisation agreement

#BREAKING UN position on Western Sahara "unchanged" following US move, says spokesman

#BREAKING Hamas condemns Israel-Morocco normalisation as "political sin"

#UPDATE Morocco confirmed it would resume diplomatic relations with Israel "with minimal delay" and lauded as "historic" a decision by Washington to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region u.afp.com/Uk2j

#BREAKING Polisario Front condemns 'in strongest terms' US declaration on Western Sahara

#UPDATE The Polisario, which is made up of the local Sahrawi people and fought a war for independence from 1975 to 1991, in a statement condemned "in the strongest terms" Trump's attempt to give to Morocco "that which does not belong to him" u.afp.com/Uk6y

In exchange for opening ties with Israel, President Donald Trump gave Morocco a "gift" -- US recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara, said Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, an expert on Israeli-Moroccan relations
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#BREAKING Russia condemns US move to recognise Morocco sovereignty over Western Sahara

#UPDATE Morocco basked in US recognition of its sovereignty over the #WesternSahara Friday after outgoing President Donald Trump changed policy on the decades-old dispute in return for Rabat agreeing to normalise relations with Israel u.afp.com/UkH3