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![Israeli media quoted multiple Israeli officials as saying that Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, 'flew yesterday to Saudi Arabia, and met Pompeo and MBS in the city of Neom' [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-23T102453Z_166146659_RC2Y8K9MV1OE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-SAUDI.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Children play next to the market in Humera. [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VP6LT.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Medical workers in Gaza face a serious shortage of equipment to battle the quickly spreading COVID-19 outbreak [Walid Mahmoud/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_0653.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Ethiopian refugees fleeing the conflict at a camp in eastern Sudan's Kassala state [Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-23T075020Z_1051288617_RC2H8K9Z4TLW_RTRMADP_3_ETHIOPIA-CONFLICT.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn turned international fugitive last year when he fled Japan where he faced trial for alleged financial misconduct [File: Hussein Malla/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20328352426230.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![In this still taken from security camera footage issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on February 23, 2015, then-15-year-old Amira Abase, left, Kadiza Sultana, 16, centre, and Shamima Begum, 15, walk through Gatwick airport, south of London, before catching their flight to Turkey [Metropolitan Police/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1f045be5e1b74f9883b4a9069e04ebe2_7.jpeg?resize=120%2C80)
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![Antony Blinken served as the deputy secretary of state and as deputy national security adviser in President Obama's administration [File: Jose Luis Magana/ AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20328073654227.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Israeli media quoted multiple Israeli officials as saying that Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, 'flew yesterday to Saudi Arabia, and met Pompeo and MBS in the city of Neom' [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-23T102453Z_166146659_RC2Y8K9MV1OE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-SAUDI.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
Coronavirus pandemic
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![A senior US health official says the first coronavirus vaccines could be administered to the most vulnerable groups of people by mid-December [File: Dado Ruvic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-01T200018Z_641573984_RC2KUJ9AFLG9_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-VACCINE.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Families reunite as the first plane from Sydney arrives in Melbourne after the opening of state borders [James Ross/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/h_56515349.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Officials have warned that a delay in the presidential transition could affect vaccine distribution [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/vaccine.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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![People sit and drink outside a bar in Hong Kong on November 15, 2020, as the government plans to tighten social distancing rules to a maximum of four people per table at restaurants and two at bars [Peter Parks/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8V94JW.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Libya rivals begin second round of talks on interim government
Transitional government to lead the conflict-stricken country to elections in December next year, according to the UN.
![Stephanie Williams headed the online meeting on Monday [File: Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-13T194618Z_104717373_RC2J2K9ZO4NO_RTRMADP_3_LIBYA-SECURITY.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Opinion
Dow opens up 200 points on another jab of promising vaccine news
US stocks kick off a fresh week on a high note on promising trial results from Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
![People wait in line outside a CityMD Urgent Care to get tested for the coronavirus as traders take a break outside the New York Stock Exchange in the financial district of New York, US [File: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/nyse.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
FIFA bans African football head for five years over ethics probe
Confederation of African Football head Ahmad Ahmad banned for financial misconduct following investigation, FIFA says.
![The ban was announced during the Madagascan official's campaign to be re-elected for four more years as the head of African football [File: Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20304519458295.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Five killed by gunmen in northwest Nigeria mosque attack: Police
Attack during Friday prayers in Nigeria’s Zamfara state kills five worshippers with many others abducted.
French ex-President Sarkozy stands trial for corruption
Along with his lawyer, Sarkozy, accused of corruption, faces up to 10 years in prison and a 1 million euro-fine.
