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$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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GAZA CITY, GAZA - APRIL 02: A view of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on April 02, 2025. Palestinians in Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza are struggling to survive their daily lives in makeshift tents among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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In this aerial photograph, crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad in Homs, late on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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The head of the Ennahdha movement, Rached Ghannouchi, appears before the first investigative judge of the judicial pole for combating terrorism, in order to interrogate him regarding a complaint that was filed against him by one of the security unions in Tunis, Tunisia on February 21, 2023 . (Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

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A picture shows a general view of the Jordanian Parliament before a session aiming to set a date to discuss the Israeli-Jordanian US-brokered solar power for water "declaration of intent" which was signed in Dubai last month, on December 8, 2021. - The parliament session which aimed, among other topics, to set a date to discuss the US-brokered declaration of intent, was postponed till December 13. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

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Saudi Arabia: Policeman Nabeel al-Souygh Arrested Rights Activists for Driving

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IBB, YEMEN - DECEMBER 16: Yemeni students are seen listening to their teacher inside a wreckage of their school, at Ar Radmah district of Ibb, Yemen on December 16, 2019. Yemeni children, living in the district of the Ibb province in the south of capital Sanaa are trying to continue their education in the shadow of the war at the classrooms without heating stoves and benches. Due to the ongoing civil war and conflicts for almost 5 years, lots of schools in the city have been damaged or ruined. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Judge Abdulaziz bin Safar al-Harthy was born in Taif City in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, al-Harthy obtained a master’s degree from Imam Muhammad bin Saud University, according to records in the King Fahad National Library.

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Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide talks to the media outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the Norwegian Government believing that Russia is behind a cyber attack on the Norwegian Parliament, in Oslo, on October 13, 2020. - A cyber attack was detected in August 2020, when Norway announced hackers had attacked the parliament's email system, gaining access to some lawmakers' messages. (Photo by Orn E. BORGEN / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by ORN E. BORGEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Palestinian children take part in a candle-light vigil in Gaza City on November 25, 2009 to call for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Israel is refusing to free a group of Palestinian prisoners serving life terms or long sentences demanded by Hamas in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who is being held by militants in Gaza, officials close to the talks on a deal said. Both Hamas and Israel earlier this week reported progress in the negotiations, which have been mediated by Egypt and Germany, but downplayed reports of a quick deal. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

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