US signs largest-ever military aid deal with Israel

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

• The US signs its largest-ever military aid deal with Israel under which Washington will give Tel Aviv 38 billion dollars of tax payer money to spend on weapons.
• A new flotilla of international activists heads to the besieged Gaza Strip from Spain in a bid to break Israel’s nearly decade-long blockade on the territory.
• The British Government refuses to give MPs a vote on whether to keep selling arms to Saudi Arabia. Senators in the United States are moving to consider a ban.
• Members of UN human Rights council condemn Bahrain’s crackdown on dissent amid more anti-regime protests in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
• Brazilian prosecutors file corruption and money-laundering charges against former president Lula da Silva and his wife.

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