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  Seven more countries agree to join Trump's Board of Peace David Gritten and Rachel Hagan EPA Seven countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt say they will join US president Donald Trump's Board of Peace, according to a joint statement. They will join Israel, which also publicly confirmed its participation earlier. On Wednesday evening Trump said Vladimir Putin had also agreed to join - but the Russian president said his country was still studying the invitation. The board was originally thought to be aimed at helping end the two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and oversee reconstruction. But its proposed charter does not mention the Palestinian territory and appears to be designed to supplant functions of the UN. However Saudi Arabia said that the group of Muslim-majority countries - Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Qatar - endorsed the aim of consolidating a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, supporting reconstruction and advancing wh...