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FILE--In this Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown because of the Trump administration's travel ban. He was recently awarded a medal for meritorious service from Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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In this June 26, 2017 photo, Khaled Almilaji poses with his wife, Jehan, in Toronto. Dr. Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration's travel ban. He was recently awarded a medal for meritorious service from Queen Elizabeth II.(Courtesy of Khaled Almilaji via AP)

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In this June 16, 2017 photo, Khaled Almilaji and his wife Jehan Mouhsen speak to a reporter after reuniting at Pearson International Airport near Toronto. Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, said he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration's travel ban. (Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star via AP)

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FILE--In this Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown because of the Trump administration's travel ban. He was recently awarded a medal for meritorious service from Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses graduates of military and police academies in Moscow,s Kremlin, Russia, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Putin has pledged to continue efforts to beef up the Russian military and law-enforcement agencies. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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Sudanese activist Tayeb Ibrahim, who had worked to expose Sudanese abuses in the volatile South Kordofan province and hopes to see family living in the U.S. state of Iowa, watches television with his son Mohammed, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Dozens of Sudanese activists living in Egypt as refugees, many of whom fled fundamentalist Islamic militias and were close to approval for resettlement in the United States, now face legal limbo in Egypt after the Supreme Court partially reinstated President Donald Trump's travel ban. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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FILE -- In this May 11, 2017 photo, a former detainee covers his face for fear of being detained again, as he shows how he was kept in handcuffs and leg shackles while held in a secret prison at Riyan airport in the Yemeni city of Mukalla. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry, File)

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In this March 22, 2016 photo, Udai Faisal, an infant suffering from acute malnutrition, who died on March 24, is hospitalized at Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Maad al-Zikry, File)

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FILE -- In this May. 15, 2017 file photo, women are treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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FILE In this April, 13, 2017 file photo, Yemenis present documents in order to receive food rations provided by a local charity, in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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FILE -- In this Jun. 9, 2017 file photo, people stand on the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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In this May 16, 2017 photo, gravestones from the 1800s stand in a cemetery at Malone's Church in Madison, Md., a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway. Free blacks settled around the church's land well before the Civil War, and the church itself was established by the surrounding black communities in 1864. According to oral tradition, Tubman was a member of one of these communities, living and working near the church with her free husband, John Tubman. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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A woman holds a Virgin Mary statue during a protest march during a protest march against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government and also to commemorate the country's Day of the Journalist, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Protests against Maduro's government have been regularly held in Caracas over the last three months. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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A man shouts slogans against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government during a protest march commemorating the country's Day of the Journalist in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Protests against Maduro's government have been regularly held in Caracas over the last three months. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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Madison Police investigate an overnight armed robbery and homicide at the Culver's restaurant in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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Madison Police investigators leave the scene of an overnight armed robbery and homicide at the Culver's restaurant in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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Madison Police investigate an overnight armed robbery and homicide at the Culver's restaurant in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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Madison Police investigate an overnight armed robbery and homicide at Culver's in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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A man shouts slogans against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government during a protest march commemorating the country's Day of the Journalist in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Protests against Maduro's government have been regularly held in Caracas over the last three months. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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Vian Dakhil, the Iraqi parliament's only female Yazidi member, described some of the horrific atrocities committed by Islamic State terrorists against her people in the war-torn region, claiming that one woman who was held captive for days was tricked into eating her own child. (MEMRI).