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Algerian journalists gather in protest to demand the release of their colleague Khaled Drareni, who was sentenced earlier this month to three years in jail for "inciting an unarmed gathering" and "endangering national unity", in the capital Algiers on August 24, 2020. - The Algerian justice system has in recent months increased the court cases and convictions against alleged Hirak militants, opposition politicians, journalists and social media users. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP) (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI/AFP vi

Algerian activist gets 10 years in prison for 'inciting atheism'

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Fans of Iranian singer, instrumentalist and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian gather outside the Jam hospital in Tehran where he has died on October 8, 2020. - Singer, instrumentalist and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, who died today aged 80, embodied traditional and classical Iranian music for more than half a century both at home and abroad. A national treasure in his homeland, Shajarian nevertheless maintained difficult relations with the authorities in Tehran throughout his career, first under the rei

Protests break out in Iran after death of famed singer

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Jordan enters a new 48-hour nationwide curfew

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US government sanctions 18 Iranian banks

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US government announces seizure of 92 Iran-linked websites

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Qatar Airways adds San Francisco flight

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Two F-35s (L and R) and two F-18s fly overhead during the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Intel: Qatar requested to buy F-35

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A woman sits outside a tent at a displaced persons camp in the Khokha district of Yemen's western province of Hodeida, on May 6, 2020. - Almost six years of war between the Yemeni government and tenacious Iran-backed Huthi rebels has pushed millions to the brink of famine in the country ill prepared to face the new threat. Squalid camps for internally displaced people like the one in Al-Khokha, outside the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, are ideal breeding grounds for disease, with little chance for proper sa

UN’s Yemen envoy urges end to clashes in Hodeidah

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File Picture dated June 25, 2007 shows Iranian opposition human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, at the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran.
Mohammadi an aide to Iranian Nobel peace winner Shirin Ebadi has been arrested before the anniversary of Iran's disputed presidential election, Ebadi's rights groups said on June 11, 2010. / AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian rights defender Narges Mohammadi released from prison

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Denmark summons Iranian ambassador over controversial divorce reports

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Turkey's Erdogan holds talks with Qatar's ruler

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This picture shows a general view of Kuwait's Parliament meeting during which Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was sworn in as the country's new Emir, in Kuwait City on September 30, 2020. - Kuwait today swore in its new emir, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, after the death of his half-brother, Sheikh Sabah, who died in the US at the age of 91. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP) (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Kuwaiti emir names new crown prince

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