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A security personnel stands at the gate of Syrian Interior Ministry's anti-narcotics department in Damascus, Syria June 14.
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President of the Israeli Supreme Court Esther Hayut (C) and judges assemble to hear petitions against a law that blocks the court from potentially ordering the prime minister to recuse himself from office, at the court premises in Jerusalem on Thursday.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19.
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Tunisia's President Kais Saied attends the opening session of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunisia's capital Tunis in August 2022.
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People walk past the body of a flash flood victim in the back of a pickup truck in Derna, eastern Libya, on Monday.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center), US President Joe Biden (right) and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) hold hands before the start of a session at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India on Saturday.
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Israelis participate in a protest in Haifa, Israel, against the crime wave impacting their community, on August 31.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia on Monday.
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The newly restored Ben Ezra Synagogue in old Cairo, Egypt on September 1.
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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush attends a joint press conference at the conclusion of the Libya Stabilization Conference, in Tripoli, Libya in October 2021.
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Two women walk by the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt, in September 2017.
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Iranians protest after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in downtown Tehran, Iran, in September 2022.
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UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in July 2019.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 15.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia takes his seat ahead of a working lunch at the G20 Summit on November 15, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia.
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Black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid battles between the forces of two rival generals, on April 20.
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Representatives from China (L) and the United States (R) attended talks on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia over the weekend.
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Women walk on the streets of Tehran as the country's morality police resume hijab patrols in Iran on July 18.
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Right-wing Israelis rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government plans to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 23
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An Israeli riot policeman stands behind a metal fence being shoved by demonstrators during a protest rally against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan in Tel Aviv on Monday.
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Protesters take part in a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government's judicial overhaul by the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a briefing near the Salem military post in the occupied West Bank on July 4.
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