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The dusty 10-acre (four hectare) site is right next to the Erez Israel-Gaza crossing, making access possible from both sides
Gazans suspicious of ‘American hospital’
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There may be simmering discontent but few open expressions of anger in a country with a massive, feared security apparatus and overcrowded prisons.
Poverty bites remote Egyptian village
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A Palestinian farmer works at a field next to the border fence with Israel (background), east of Gaza City, on October 16, 2019
Gaza farmers fear Israel will resume spraying herbicides
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A woman collects recyclable items at a landfill to be sold for extra income in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf
Poverty brought protests onto oil-rich Iraq’s streets
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The WHO that an hour-long shisha session was equivalent to smoking 100-200 cigarettes
New study reveals shisha is less harmful than cigarettes
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Emirati Abdullah al-Suwaidi demonstrates how his ancestors would pick up oysters off the seabed
On Emirates' glittering coast, pearl trade lives on
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Qatar's national football team was forced to play without travelling supporters during the Asian Cup in the UAE at the start of the year
Qatar hosts Gulf Cup amid hopes of easing tensions
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Saudi female musician Lojain Sami plays a keyboard at a local cafe in Khobar.
Music returns to Saudi schools after 60-year absence
Zaki al-Soudeir
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Saudi Arabia's first female race driver Reema al-Juffali
First Saudi woman driver to race car in kingdom
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An Iraqi demonstrator reads Tuktuk newspaper during the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad
Newspaper of Iraq's uprising aspires to be vehicle for change
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The potential consequences can be devastating in a milieu as conservative as Iraq: at best, an indelible mark of shame on a family but at worst, a death sentence
Women vulnerable to ‘sextortion’ in conservative Iraq
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The winners of each of the eight groups plus the four best runners-up advance to the next phase of qualifying
Syria maintains perfect record in World Cup qualifying
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A man walks past the Royal Cemeteries of Meroe Pyramids in Begrawiya
Sudan hopes pyramids will attract tourism - and hard currency
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In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, a child swims in the floodwaters as others walk past, in the town of Beledweyne, in central Somalia
Somalia flooding an indication of climate change extremes
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Dire living conditions
In Lebanon's Tripoli, the poor struggle to make ends meet
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A mounted policeman wearing a traditional outfit arrives with the trophy prior to the Gulf Cup of Nations 2017 final football match
Saudi, UAE, Bahrain to play Gulf Cup in Qatar
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