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A Lebanese woman stands next to her empty refrigerator in her apartment in the port city of Tripoli north of Beirut on June 17, 2020. - Lebanon's economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of the population into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. (Photo by IBRAHIM CHALHOUB / AFP) (Photo by IBRAHIM CHALHOUB/AFP via Getty Images)

Dumpster diving, blackouts and suicides. Lebanon's woes laid bare as crisis deepens

Interview with Hisham Al-Hashimi, Security analyst, October 14, 2014, Baghdad.

Prominent researcher of jihadi groups shot dead in Baghdad

This Sunday, July 5, 2020 satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows the substantial damage done by an explosion and a fire at an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear site. Israeli leaders are now hinting it was behind the massive fire at the Iranian nuclear site last week, potentially ratcheting up a long-running covert war. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Mystery fire at Iranian nuclear facility is the latest in a series of unexplained incidents

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Turkey.

Saudi consulate staff describe strange events on day of Khashoggi's death

In this June 2, 2020 photo, journalist Ruhollah Zam speaks during his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran. Iran. The judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, announced Tuesday, June 30, 2020 that Zam, a journalist whose online work helped inspire the 2017 economic protests and who returned from exile to Tehran was sentenced to death. The Persian writing on the podium reads, "defendant's place."

Iran sentences journalist to death, months after he was detained in mysterious circumstances

In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Jordan's King Abdullah II , during a visit to Amman on Jan 16, 2014 in Amman, Jordan.

Why West Bank annexation poses an existential threat to Jordan

(FILES) In this picture taken on September 14, 2013, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is seen as people pay their condolences following the death of his mother in Tehran. For a man widely reported to be playing a key role in helping Iraq's routed military recover lost ground, Qassem Soleimani, 57, the commander of Iran's feared Quds Force, remains invisible. AFP PHOTO/ISNA/MEHDI GHASEMI (Photo by MEHDI GHASEMI / ISNA / AFP) (Photo by MEHDI GHASEMI/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani

Israeli security forces cover the body of Palestinian Ahmad Erakat, who was shot dead at the site of a reported ramming attack, at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank near the village of Abu Dis on June 23, 2020. - A Palestinian man was shot dead at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank after driving his car "quickly" towards a border officer, Israeli police said. (Photo by Musa Al SHAER / AFP) (Photo by MUSA AL SHAER/AFP via Getty Images)

Video of Palestinian man being shot after suspected attack at checkpoint sparks controversy

This photo illustration taken on March 22, 2018 shows apps for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks on a smartphone in New Delhi. / AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNA (Photo credit should read CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images)

Three men arrested in Iran for allegedly selling babies on Instagram

Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma vote at a polling station in Damascus during the parliamentary elections on April 13, 2016.

As the US rolls out new sanctions on Assad, Syria braces for economic devastation