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Aug 14, 2020

A man reads a copy of the United Arab Emirates-based The National newspaper near the Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure and building in the world since 2009, in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on Aug. 14, 2020, as the publication's headline reflects the previous day's news that Israel and the UAE had agreed to normalize relations in a landmark US-brokered deal. — GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images

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A man reads a copy of UAE-based The National newspaper near the Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure and building in the world since 2009, in the gulf emirate of Dubai on August 14, 2020, as the publication's headline reflects the previous day's news as Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise relations in a landmark US-brokered deal. - The deal marks only the third such accord the Jewish state has struck with an Arab nation, an historic shift making the Gulf state only the third Arab country to establish full

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