Racha Mounaged’s debut poetry collection, The Metamorphoses of Medusa, reveals an imaginative mind interrogating the philosophical legacy of Greek…
Gregori Saavedra
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Muslims mark the start of Ramadan and more
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A Palestinian youth hangs decorative lights at a shop in East Jerusalem on 16 February 2026, as Muslims prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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Malaysia's religious department members use a telescope to perform 'Rukyah', the sighting of the new moon to mark the start of Islam's holy month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur on 17 February 2026.
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A man hangs decoration ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Beirut, Lebanon, on 16 February 2026.
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A Muslim woman prays near the grave of a relative at a cemetery before the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Surabaya on 16 February 2026.
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A reveler performs during the Batalla de Flores (Battle of Flowers) carnival parade in Barranquilla, Colombia on 14 February 2026.
Pedro PARDO / AFP
Men perform molten iron fireworks in a park in Beijing on 15 February 2026 ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Horse.
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Racing pigeons take off as a cage mounted on a vehicle is opened at the start of a race in Basra, Iraq, on 15 February 2026.
REUTERS/Corey Rudy
The art installation “Threads of Life” by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, made from hundreds of keys suspended in a web of red thread symbolising human connection and memory, at the Hayward Gallery in London on 16 February 2026.
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This aerial photograph shows a house surrounded by water in the village of La Reole flooded by the Garonne river, south-western France, on 17 February 2026.
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Bangladeshi men unload buckets of sand on their heads from a cargo ship along the shore of the Buriganga River in Dhaka on 15 February 2026.
The United States is bolstering its military presence across the Middle East ahead of scheduled nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, while…
The revelation that a high-profile member of the British government had close historic ties with the disgraced American financier Jeffrey Epstein has…
India’s expanded military budget shows how strategic competition with rivals China and Pakistan is heating up. Over $86.7bn was set aside for defence…
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