BBC Verify has been looking into the legality of presidents accepting gifts.
The attack was condemned by world leaders, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who said he "thoroughly" condemns the "antisemitic attack" in Washington DC.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack "a heinous antisemitic murder" and added that security would be increased for Israeli representatives and diplomatic missions worldwide.
US President Donald Trump also decried antisemitism in response to the attack, writing on his social media platform Truth Social that "hatred and radicalism have no place in the USA."Trump and Netanyahu later spoke over the phone about the incident, where the US president expressed sorrow to his Israeli counterpart, according to a readout of the call.The P39-1 is an anonymous stretch of thinly tarred highway connecting the small towns of Newcastle and Normandien in South Africa, a four-hour drive from Johannesburg.
This week the single carriageway road, which runs mainly along the edge of farms nestled in the remote hills of the country's KwaZulu-Natal province, has found itself unexpectedly the subject of global attention.On Wednesday many South Africans were among those watching live around the world as US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa with a video making the case that white people were being persecuted. He had previously said that a "genocide" was taking place.
The most striking scene in the video was an aerial shot of thousands of white crosses by the side of the road - a "burial site" President Trump repeatedly said, of more than a thousand Afrikaners murdered in recent years.
The president did not mention where the road was although the film was quickly linked to Normandien.His voters liked what he stood for, including a future firmly within Europe.
When thousands surrounded his campaign headquarters last night to wait for him to claim victory, many brought EU flags. There was relief as well as excitement.Before the election, young voters had told me they planned radical action if Simion won.
"So many friends say that they will leave Romania because our values do not align with him at all," politics graduate Sergiana told me in central Bucharest. "I feel like in a year or two he would completely mess up our chances to stay in the EU."By contrast, Dan put relations with Europe at the heart of his campaign.