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FILE - In this March 29, 2014 file photo, Aziza al-Yousef drives a car on a highway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving. Saudi authorities have detained at least six activists, including three of the country's most prominent women's rights campaigners, just weeks before the kingdom is set to lift a ban on women driving, people familiar with the arrests said Friday, May 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Rights groups slam 'smear campaign' against Saudi activists

A Saudi woman walks near car down a street in the Saudi capital Riyadh on September 27, 2017.

Saudi Arabia arrests female activists weeks before lifting of driving ban

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was imprisoned in April 2016.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to face new charges over 'spreading propaganda'

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in Sochi on May 17, 2018. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

All 'foreign forces' to leave Syria, Putin tells Assad

British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sitteh travels from Beirut to Gaza during times of crisis to help fill the shortage of doctors in the coastal strip.

He's treated thousands. The surgeon who keeps returning to Gaza

demonstrators in the crowd near the border with Israel the day after nearly 60 people were killed. They say they want to return to lands lost to their families in 1948. They also call for an end. Protesters say the security barrier feels like the walls of a prion because of the more than ten-year blockade. More generics plus photo description can be written digital.

Hamas claims 50 of its members died in Monday's clashes in Gaza

TOPSHOT - A photo taken on March 18, 2018, shows a Yemeni child looking out at buildings that were damaged in an air strike in the southern Yemeni city of Taez. / AFP PHOTO / Ahmad AL-BASHA (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP/Getty Images)

Rare drone footage shows Yemen frontline city in ruins

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY 14: Medical units carry away a wounded Palestinian shot by Israeli forces during a protest on the border fence separating Israel and Gaza on May 14, 2018 in a camp east of Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Israel defends Gaza crackdown as Palestinians bury their dead

Ahmad Abu Artema says he is inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

The Gazan leading a popular uprising against Israel

dpatop - Palestinian protesters use slingshots to hurl stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, on the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of the Catastrophe), which marks the displacement that preceded and followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, in Khan Yunis, Southern Gaza Strip, 14 May 2018. Photo by: Wissam Nassar/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

The dream of 'peace in our time' in the Middle East died on Monday

TOPSHOT - Palestinian protesters look at tear gas and smoke billowing from burning tyres, east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018, as Palestinians readied for protests over the inauguration of the US embassy following its controversial move to Jerusalem. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

Dozens of Palestinians killed in Gaza clashes as US Embassy opens

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY 15: Palestinian mourners attend the funeral ceremony of Emad El Naffar, martyred during clashes in Gaza the previous day, during his funeral in Gaza City on May 15, 2018. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Palestinian mourn dead in Gaza as protests continue

Jerusalem and Gaza -- A world apart

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY 14: Palestinians rush to the border fence with Israel as mass demonstrations at the fence continue on May 14, 2018 in Gaza City, Gaza. Israeli soldiers killed at least 41 Palestinians and wounded over a thousand as the demonstrations coincided with the controversial opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. This marks the deadliest day of violence in Gaza since 2014. Gaza's Hamas rulers have vowed that the marches will continue until the decade-old Israeli blockade of the territory is lifted. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Tension across Gaza, Mideast: What we know

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi talks during a campaign rally in the holy city of Najaf on May 3, 2018, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. (Photo by Haidar HAMDANI / AFP) (Photo credit should read HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

As votes come in, Iraqi PM's hold on power looks shaky

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