Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shown wearing a face mask and suit with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman standing behind him.

Morocco and Israel to normalize ties

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addresses the media in Jerusalem on Dec. 10, 2020.

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Big news in the Middle East today: Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations. And in Lebanon, caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three other government ministers have been charged with negligence related to the explosion that rocked the port of Beirut in August. And, in what could be a dramatic development in global antitrust in decades, more than 40 US states and the federal government are suing to break up Facebook. Also, team archaeologists have been working to uncover an enormous stretch of paintings covering cliff faces in the Amazon in Colombia.


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