President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognise a Palestinian state, as anger mounts over the death toll and worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
More than 140 countries recognise Palestinian statehood, but Israel and the US are staunchly opposed. France would become the biggest European power and first G7 state to do so. It will join fellow European countries Norway, Ireland and Spain in recognising Palestine.
To date, only nine EU members have taken the step, making France’s move significant, especially given its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
But worldwide, about 75 per cent of UN members recognise Palestinian statehood. They are as follows:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Somalia
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Yemen
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Cuba
- Jordan
- Madagascar
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Serbia
- Zambia
- Albania
- Brunei
- Djibouti
- Mauritius
- Sudan
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Egypt
- The Gambia
- India
- Nigeria
- Seychelles
- Sri Lanka
- Namibia
- Russia
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- China
- Burkina Faso
- Comoros
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Cambodia
- Mali
- Mongolia
- Senegal
- Hungary
- Cape Verde
- North Korea
- Niger
- Romania
- Tanzania
- Bulgaria
- Maldives
- Ghana
- Togo
- Zimbabwe
- Chad
- Laos
- Sierra Leone
- Uganda
- Republic of the Congo
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Gabon
- Oman
- Poland
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Botswana
- Nepal
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Bhutan
- Rwanda
- Ethiopia
- Iran
- Benin
- Kenya
- Equatorial Guinea
- Vanuatu
- Philippines
- Eswatini
- Kazakhstan
- Azerbaijan
- Turkmenistan
- Georgia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
- Papua New Guinea
- South Africa
- Kyrgyzstan
- Malawi
- Timor-Leste
- Paraguay
- Montenegro
- Costa Rica
- Lebanon
- Ivory Coast
- Venezuela
- Dominican Republic
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Ecuador
- Chile
- Guyana
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Lesotho
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Liberia
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Belize
- Dominica
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Grenada
- Iceland
- Thailand
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Sweden
- Saint Lucia
- Colombia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Barbados
- Jamaica
- Trinidad and Tobago
- The Bahamas
- Ireland
- Norway
- Spain
- Slovenia
- Armenia
- Mexico
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Robo-advisers use an online sign-up process to gauge an investor’s risk tolerance by feeding information such as their age, income, saving goals and investment history into an algorithm, which then assigns them an investment portfolio, ranging from more conservative to higher risk ones.
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