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In this file photo taken on March 2, 2020 US Vice President Mike Pence and his chief of staff Mark Short confer during a meeting with the White House Coronavirus Task Force and pharmaceutical executives in Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. US Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff tested positive for Covid-19 on October 24, a spokesman said, the latest in a list of figures connected to Donald Trump's administration to do so. Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

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In this file photo taken on December 4, 2019 France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) gestures as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walks past him during a family photo as part of the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed on October 24, 2020 his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, over his policies toward Muslims, saying that he needed "mental checks." "What can one say about a head of state who treats millions of members from dif

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Italian police officers clash with far right Forza Nuova party activists during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, at central Piazza del Popolo, in Rome, Italy on October 24, 2020. Following last spring lockdown, Italy is facing its worst post-war economic recession. The country has recorded nearly 500,000 positive cases to the Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, including 37,059 deaths, according to the Italian Ministry of Health on October 24, 2020

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Protestors shout slogans during a protest action against police brutality in Nigeria, outside the BBC offices in central London on October 24, 2020. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to what he called "brutality" by police in Nigeria, which has been rocked by two weeks of protests. Guterres said gunmen that opened fire on peaceful protesters Tuesday evening in Lagos caused "multiple deaths" and many injuries. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP

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Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko meets with Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), in Minsk on October 22, 2020. Nikolay PETROV / BELTA / AFP

Lukashenko Warns The US He is Ready to Repel Any External Threat With Russian Help

Arab-Israeli protesters gather outside the residence of the French Ambassador to Israel, in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2020, in response to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. JACK GUEZ / AFP

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about a Sudan-Israel peace agreement, in the Oval Office on October 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP

Sudan Becomes The Third Arab Country to Normalize Ties With Israel

Protesters demonstrate outside the prime minister's office in Amman late on June 2, as security forces stand on alert /AFP

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A Palestinian man collects plastic containers on his horse cart while wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus in Deir al-Balah in the central of Gaza Strip on October 1, 2020. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

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Can't a Woman Go Cycling in Iran? Young Woman's Arrest Triggers Social Media Anger

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A man casts his ballot at a polling station in El-Ayyat, south of the Egyptian capital on October 24, 2020, during the first stage of the lower house elections. Polling stations opened in Egypt for parliamentary elections in which there was little doubt of a sweeping victory for supporters of hardline President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Some 63 million voters out of Egypt's more than 100 million people are eligible to elect 568 of the 596 lawmakers in the lower house, widely seen as a rubber-stamp body for exec

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