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A member of the Syrian pro-government forces holds the national flag as he stands in front of damaged buildings in the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus on May 22. Earlier in the week, the government seized the camp and adjacent neighborhoods from the Islamic State, putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012. LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images

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A Palestinian youth waves a sparkler next a mosque in Gaza City on May 16 as the faithful prepare to start the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images

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A man jumps over a large bonfire during the Kakava Festival on May 5 in Edirne, Turkey. The festival celebrates the coming of spring among the Roma community. Chris McGrath/Getty Images

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A child prays during Shab-e-Barat (the night of forgiveness or atonement) at the Somuncu Baba Mosque in Malatya, Turkey, on April 30. Ayhan Iscen/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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The union of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert had royal ripple effects across Europe; Prince Harry’s marriage to American actress Meghan Markle carries far less diplomatic weight. Rischgitz/Getty Images/GraphicaArtis/Getty Images/Alvin Jewett Johnson map/Buyenlarge/Getty Images/Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration

Royal Weddings Are a Fairy Tale. They Used to Be High-Stakes Diplomacy.

Once upon a time, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would have been instruments of foreign-policy ambition.

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A group of migrants warm up with Red Cross blankets onboard a Spanish coast guard vessel as they arrive at Malaga's harbour on April 26. Five people died in the attempted crossing to Europe before an inflatable boat carrying 80 men, six women and four children was rescued off the coast. JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images

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French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump confer before a working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. The European leaders have starkly different visits to Washington this week — Macron’s an elaborate state dinner and Merkel’s a planned 20-minute Oval Office talk followed by a working lunch. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Bromance Doesn’t Translate to German

Rohingya refugees look for their belongings in New Delhi on April 16 following a fire that broke out at their camp, leaving around 200 people homeless. The refugees fled persecution in Myanmar, with their numbers increasing following a brutal crackdown in September 2017 that saw hundreds of thousands pouring into neighbouring Bangladesh. MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images

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Macedonian Orthodox worshippers light candles from the holy fire that arrived from Jerusalem during the Easter service at the St. Jovan Bigorski monastery, some 145 km west of the capital Skopje,April 8, 2018.

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Women protest a bill decriminalizing domestic violence in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park in February 2017. (Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images)

Putin’s War on Women

Why #MeToo skipped Russia.

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South African school children pause next to a portrait of South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at her house in Soweto, South Africa, on April 3. “The Mother of the Nation” and Nelson Mandela's former wife died April 2 at age 81. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

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An aerial view shows a man country-skiing in Sundom aerea, near Vaasa, in the middle of the UNESCO classified archipelago, on the frozen Bothnia sea (Baltic Sea), on March 23, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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TOPSHOT - A picture taken early on March 23, 2018 shows a man standing looking at flames erupting in a building following regime bombardment in Douma, one of the few remaining rebel-held pockets in Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. / AFP PHOTO / HAMZA AL-AJWEH (Photo credit should read HAMZA AL-AJWEH/AFP/Getty Images)

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The worlds most tattooed man, Gregory Paul Mclaren, performs as Lucky Diamond Rich during a photo session on March 14 in Vienna, Austria. / AFP PHOTO / APA / HANS KLAUS TECHT / Austria OUT (Photo credit should read HANS KLAUS TECHT/AFP/Getty Images)

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TOPSHOT - Members of Kenya Girl Guides take photos after attending ceremony of the International Women's day at Kawangware in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 8, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Yasuyoshi CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

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