Questions over arms sales to Saudi Arabia

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The US Senate has voted to block billions of dollars of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. In a rare bi-partisan rebuke of President Trump's plans, the Republican-led senate approved three resolutions to halt the eight billion dollar arms deal. Senior members of the Democratic Party in the United States have warned Donald Trump of the danger of inadvertently slipping into a war with Iran. Congressional leaders attended a hurriedly arranged White House briefing after Iran shot down an American surveillance drone. Protest leaders in Sudan have been refusing to resume talks with the military leaders since the the killings in Khartoum, three weeks ago. It’s against this background that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is trying to bring the two sides together.