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  • Creator and Executive Producer Dana Eden poses on the red carpet at the 49th International Emmy Awards in New York City, New York, on November 22, 2021.
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    Israeli TV producer of award-winning show ‘Tehran’ found dead in Athens hotel room
  • A Palestinian woman, Etaf jaradat from Silat al-Harithiya, watches from a hill as Israeli bulldozers work on her land to reportedly make way for the construction of settlements in the Sarouj area, located between the towns of Silat al-Harithiya and Yamoun, west of Jenin in the occupied west bank on December 22, 2025. Israel approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move the far-right finance minister said on December 21 was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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    Israeli move to designate large parts of West Bank as state land condemned as ‘de facto annexation’
  • Members of Israel's Arab minority protest, calling on the Israeli government to tackle a wave of crime and killings from within Arab communities through effective law and order, in Sakhnin, northern Israel, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR FROM "2025" TO "2026".
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    A killing a day: How a crime epidemic is spotlighting inequality in Israeli society
  • President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday.
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    Netanyahu leans on Trump ties as Israel heads toward elections
  • Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025.
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    Iranian authorities subjected Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to ‘life-threatening mistreatment,’ Nobel Committee says
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  • Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. (Photo by Nooshin Jafari / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by NOOSHIN JAFARI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Exclusive: Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike in detention in Iran, foundation says
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 31, 2026.
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    Iran conditionally agrees to nuclear talks with US, first since Trump’s military strikes last summer
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    Iran’s top diplomat hopeful for negotiations even amid US military buildup
  • RAFAH, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 1: Ambulances and medical teams affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Health arrive at the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, standing by to enter Gaza to provide humanitarian aid and medical support if the crossing is opened, in Rafah, Egypt, on February 1, 2026. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been reopened as part of a âpilot operation❠after nearly two years of closure, according to Israeli media on Sunday morning. The paper said that Palestinians who left Gaza during the Israeli war will only be allowed to return to the enclave through the terminal. No official statements were immediately issued by Israeli, Egyptian, or Palestinian authorities regarding the report. (Photo by Ahmed Sayed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Gaza’s Rafah crossing partially reopens after nearly 2 years of closure
  • TOPSHOT - Ambulances wait on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 4, 2026, days after Israel permitted a limited reopening of the Palestinian territory's border post. The crossing, which is Gaza's only gateway to the outside world that does not lead to Israel, had been largely closed since Israeli forces seized control of it in May 2024 during the war with Hamas. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
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    Confusion at reopening of Rafah crossing leaves Palestinians stranded
  • <p>In a rare interview from inside Iran, a doctor tells CNN about co-ordinating an underground network of medics to treat protesters during the regime's brutal crackdown against protesters. He describes how the regime took over hospitals and arrested medical workers for treating them. The doctor is now himself fearing arrest but bravely speaking out to share his story.</p>
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  • Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday.
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    Gaza-Egypt border reopens nearly two years after Israel closed it, official says
  • Sailors fuel an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 21, 2026, in this photo provided by the U.S. Navy.
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    US conducts military drills in Middle East as tension with Iran builds amid Trump’s demands
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  • The blast ripped through a building in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas.
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    Blast rips through building in Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, state media says
  • Israeli strikes kill over 30 in Gaza, health ministry says, in deadliest day in months
  • Israeli military reportedly acknowledges 70,000 killed in Gaza after previously casting doubt on health ministry’s count
  • Trump faces a weakened Iran but that doesn’t make his choices any easier
  • Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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    ‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies
  • Trump warns against Nouri al-Maliki’s return as prime minister of Iraq
  • Tehran wary of American bombs as memories of bloody crackdown still sting
  • After 843 days, the clock counting the painful wait for Israel’s hostages has finally stopped
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