News in Brief - Tue - March 24 - 4:30 GMT

UK

1. The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to rush providing heavy arms to Ukraine in its battle against QUOTE Russian aggression.

2. The US president’s chief of staff has said Israel’s occupation of the West Bank must end.

3. The European Central Bank denies claims by members of the European Parliament that it’s seeking to blackmail Greece.

4. The European Central Bank predicts that one in 10 workers in the eurozone will remain unemployed even after its bond-buying program is fully implemented. Unemployment in the bloc now hovers over 11 percent.

5. Yemen's fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has urged the Persian Gulf Arab states to intervene militarily against the Ansarullah movement.

6. The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has released footage of airstrikes on ISIL positions in Tikrit.

7. Uruguay is refusing to take more detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

8. Barbados is planning to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth the Second, as its head of state.


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