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Yemeni pupils on the first day of the new academic year at a destroyed building #Yemen
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Au #Yémen en guerre, nouvelle rentrée scolaire pour des dizaines d'enfants dans les ruines de leur école, largement détruite par une frappe aérienne sur la ville de Taëz il y a deux ans #AFP 📸Ahmad al-Basha @AFPphoto
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La campagne pour le référendum sur la révision de la Constitution censée fonder une " #Algérie nouvelle" et répondre aux aspirations du mouvement de protestation s'ouvre dans une large indifférence au sein de la population. lorientlejour.com/article/12… #AFP 📸Ryad Kramdi @AFPphoto
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In the Jabalia #refugee camp in the northern #Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a staff member sorts #books to give to pupils as they return to #school #AFP 📸 @AFPphoto by Mohammed Abed
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#Syrian children attend classes in a tent on Tuesday at a camp for internally displaced people in the town of Maarat Misrin, in the country's northwestern #Idlib province #AFP 📸 @AFPphoto by @omar_hajkadour
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"It is lighting a candle in the dark," says Fawzi al-Ghoudi in #Yemen's rebel-held capital #Sanaa, of his initiative to reignite people's interest in #books, as an escape from the grimness of #war #AFP story: bit.ly/34scdos 📸 @AFPphoto by Mohammed Huwais
Manifestation contre le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu à Jérusalem, malgré les restrictions liées au coronavirus #AFP
Un gibbon au Safari Park, le zoo de Dubaï qui a rouvert ses portes cette semaine #AFP
Vue aérienne d'élèves syriens se mettant en rang avant d'entrer dans des tentes transformées en salles de classe dans un camp de déplacés dans la province d'Idleb, dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie #AFP
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A wind turbine stands between vineyards and fruit orchards in a wind farm near El-Rom settlement in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights close to the frontier with Syria #AFP
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US fighting armoured vehicle patrols near Rmeilan oil fields in northeast Syria's Kurdish-controlled Hasakeh province #AFP
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Dubai's Safari Park reopened its doors on October 5, after a two-year expansion, as the emirate seeks to boost its hard-hit tourism sector amid the coronavirus pandemic 📷 @cacaciotti @AFPphoto
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An Iraqi man wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sits at the train station in the southern city of Basra on October 5, 2020. 📷 @Hussein_Afp
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In war-ravaged #Yemen, life goes on: a coffee fair in Sanaa. Yemen -- with #Ethiopia -- is said to be the birth place of coffee. Not only are the roasted beans used, but the husks are too - in the spiced ginger drink of 'qishr'. Photos by Mohammed Huwais for @AFPphoto
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In #Sudan, the army has begun a mass disarmament campaign - launching it by blowing up thousands of rifles. Guns are common in a country trying to build peace after decades of civil war, but key rebels have recently signed a landmark peace deal news.yahoo.com/sudan-launche…
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Harvest time: #Palestinian families in Rafeh in #Gaza pick olives - which are then sorted and pressed into oil Photos by Said Khatib for @AFP
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In Mecca, limited 'umrah' pilgrimage has resumed --along socially distanced paths and with a raft of precautions due to coronavirus #SaudiArabia #Umrah news.yahoo.com/mecca-reopens…
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Biking for #Beirut: US cyclist @lancearmstrong in #Lebanon to lead a charity tour to raise funds to support four charities supporting the thousands hit by the devastating August 4 port blast @anwaramro11 @AFP_Beirut #cycling
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