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Libyan rivals meet for UN-brokered face-to-face talks

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Talks resume on Ethiopia's Nile River dam

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French government to ban Turkish nationalist Gray Wolves group

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Iranians walk next to a sign advising people to wear masks as they shop in Tajrish square in the capital Tehran on November 1, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. - Iran yesterday announced the expansion beyond Tehran of measures against Covid-19, amid growing calls for a full lockdown after the country posted a string of record highs in deaths and infections. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran announces new record in COVID-19 deaths

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Israeli Right wing Likud party affiliates and supporters od US President Donald Trump attend a pre-election rally in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh on Novemver 2, 2020, ahead of the US presidential election. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Senior Israeli Orthodox rabbis urge Americans to vote for Trump

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A man casts his vote just before polls close at a polling station in Algeria's capital Algiers on November 1, 2020, during a referendum on a revised constitution. - Algerians on November 1 largely snubbed a poll on a revised constitution the regime hoped would neutralise a protest movement which at its peak last year swept long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. With the "yes" camp almost certain to win, the only real question mark was over participation in a vote also seen as a bid to bolster

Algeria votes to revamp constitution despite low voter turnout

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Iran calls US 'pirates' for selling seized oil

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 16: A woman lights candles marking the number of days Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been imprisoned for next to a photo of her during a vigil for British-Iranian mother, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Tehran outisde the Iranian Embassy on January 16, 2017 in London, England. Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in September 2016 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian government. The vigil, being held outside the Iranian Embassy in

UK summons Iranian ambassador over plight of British aid worker

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A woman pays homage in front of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 30, 2020 during a tribute to the victims killed by a knife attacker the day before. - A 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the suspected knifeman who killed three at a church in Nice has been detained for questioning, a judicial source said on October 30, 2020. The man was detained late Thursday after the attack at the city's Notre-Dame basilica by a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France on Oct

Tunisian man identified as French knife attack suspect

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IZMIR, TURKEY - OCTOBER 30: Emergency services personnel search a collapsed building for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck on October 30, 2020 in Izmir, Turkey. Six people have been killed and more than two hundred were injured after an earthquake struck the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey's Izmir Province. More than twenty buildings were destroyed in Izmir, Turkey's third largest city. (Photo by Usame Ari/Getty Images)

Israel offers aid to Turkey after earthquake

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Tehran, IRAN: TO GO WITH AFP STORY IRAN-JUSTICE-PRISON-SOCIT BY PIERRE CELERIER Iranian women inmates sit at their cell in the infamous Evin jail, north of Tehran, 13 June 2006. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Jailed academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert sent back to Iran’s Evin Prison

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This picture shows destroyed car and collapsed buildings after an earthquake in the island of Samos on October 30, 2020. - A powerful earthquake hit Greece and Turkey on October 30, 2020, causing buildings to collapse and a sea surge that flooded streets in the Turkish resort city of Izmir. Greek public television said the quake also caused a mini-tsunami on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos, damaging buildings. The US Geological Survey said the 7.0 magnitude quake was registered 14 kilometres (8.6 mil

At least 12 dead after powerful earthquake rocks Turkey's western coast

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