For years, the large crowds of Italians attending the annual commemoration of former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who is buried in the city of…
Eduardo Ramon
The stars and stripes now fly over the reopened United States ambassador’s residence in Damascus, Syria. Lebanon’s new, technocratic president and…
In 1983, a satirical play by Ziad Rahbani called Shi Fashel (A Total Failure) follows a director and actors who want to perform a play about Lebanon…
Though we’re less than half a year into the second Trump administration, it’s already clear that some things are different this time around,…
All eyes are on forthcoming Syria-Israel peace negotiations, expected to resume soon after they were suspended in 2008. Those talks had been indirect…
A new report by a range of agencies has shown that a staggering proportion of Tunisian children suffer violence at the hands of their parents. The…
Los Angeles clashes, Mount Arafat prayers and more
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A demonstrator rides a bicycle past burning Waymo vehicles as protesters clash with law enforcement in response to Federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025.
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People watch a projection on the Reichstag building in Berlin on June 8, 2025, during a rehearsal paying tribute to the 30th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne Claude’s artwork.
HAZEM BADER / AFP
Muslim pilgrims pray at dawn on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage on June 5, 2025.
TED ALJIBE / AFP
Philippine marines using binoculars scan the horizon as they stand guard at West York Island, one of the islands occupied by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, on June 5, 2025, during a routine Maritime patrol.
Philip FONG / AFP
Diners eat inside a barbecue restaurant in Tokyo's Asakusabashi district on June 5, 2025.
GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP
Spanish matador Morante de la Puebla smokes a cigar before fighting a Garcigrande fighting bull during the Pentecost Feria in Nimes, southern France on June 6, 2025.
HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
Members of the Household Division take part in the Colonel's Review on Horse Guards Parade in London on June 7, 2025, ahead of The King's Birthday Parade.
Tony KARUMBA / AFP
Kenya Wildlife Services veterinarians and rangers rush to aid a sedated black Rhinoceros that has been selected for translocation to the Segera Rhino Sanctuary from the Lake Nakuru National Park on June 7, 2025.
OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Palestinians gather at the beach in Gaza City to escape the heat and displacement tents amid Israel's 20-month-long war on Gaza on June 8, 2025.
ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
People look at painted portraits of former South Korean presidents at the Blue House in Seoul on June 9, 2025.
As a priest in Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio witnessed extensive poverty and its effects. When he was elected to lead the Catholic Church in 2013,…
After three months of Israel’s closed border crossings, Tel Aviv has finally allowed humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, with lorries carrying…
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