Palestinians take over as chair of UN developing countries

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has taken over as head of the key group of developing countries at the United Nations, promising to confront “assaults” on multilateralism and pledging a peaceful two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abbas took over the chairmanship of the Group of 77, a bloc of 134 mainly developing nations and China. Palestine is a non-member observer state of the United Nations.
He accepted the gavel Tuesday from Eg