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Iraq's former communications minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi speaks after assigned by Iraq's president Barham Salih to form a new government, in Baghdad, Iraq on February 1, 2020.

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An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.

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A picture taken on January 27, 2020 shows Israel's controversial concrete barrier (C) separating the Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov (foreground) in the northern part of east Jerusalem and the Palestinian area of al-Ram (background) in the occupied West Bank.

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