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Samantha Power, nominee to be Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Biden's USAID nominee confirmed by Senate

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Al-Monitor Staff

A boy awaits departure during the release of another group of Syrian families from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, on Feb. 20, 2021.

CENTCOM chief warns children risk radicalization at Syrian al-Hol camp

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Ankara's Metropolitan Municipality paid tribute to Ozlem Tureci (L) and Ugur Sahin (R), the German couple of Turkish origin who are behind the BioNTech firm that developed a successful vaccine with US giant Pfizer, as part of a series of graffiti dedicated to the efforts of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the City Hospital region of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on April 19, 2021.

Turkey inks deal for 50 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

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An Iranian health worker injects university professor Mahnaz Rasouli-Nejad with a dose of a locally made Iranian COVID-19 vaccine during the second phase of trials in the capital, Tehran, on March 15, 2021.

Iran enters third trial phase of domestic coronavirus vaccine

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Israeli human rights activist Adi Dagan listens to an Israeli soldier as she waits for troops to allow Palestinian schoolchildren home through a gate in the security fence March 2, 2004, at the village of Jubara near the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The 300 Israeli women volunteers of the Machsom Watch group have appointed themselves to the task of monitoring the Israeli army, which operates about 65 manned and hundreds of unmanned checkpoints in the West Bank.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of 'apartheid'

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John Kerry

Kerry denies he spoke with Iranian foreign minister about Israeli airstrikes in Syria

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A person is tested with a COVID-19 PCR exam on April 14, 2021, in Montevideo, Uruguay. After cases surged in the last week, Uruguay has the highest rate of COVID-19 infections per million inhabitants in Latin America, surpassing Brazil and Mexico. The South American country, which has a population of 3.4 million, currently has the highest global rate of new positive cases of coronavirus.

Israel, Saudi Arabia help Uruguay fight COVID-19

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Turkey to begin making Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

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UAE condemns 'right-wing extremist groups' for violence in Jerusalem

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Syrian actor Yahya Mahayni poses with Tunisian director and screenwriter Kaouther Ben Henia in front of the poster of the Tunisian film "The man who sold his skin" during its first screening in the Tunisian capital Tunis, on March 30, 2021.

Tunisian film nominated for country's first Oscar

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Iran sentences British-Iranian aid worker to another year in jail

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People wave Armenian and US flags in front of the US embassy in Yerevan after US President recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, on April 24, 2021.

Turkey’s reaction to Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide more bark than bite for now

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