A few days after he resigned from a top government job in Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif changed his mind. He retracted his move to step down and…
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Paralympics in Paris, back to school in Ukraine and Indian tea farms
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The Olympic flame lifts off while attached to a balloon during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony at the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden) in Paris on August 28, 2024.
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Britain's Lucy Shuker looks on as she competes in the 1st round of the women's wheelchair doubles tennis match against the Netherlands at the Roland-Garros Stadium during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris on August 30, 2024.
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Muslims perform the Friday prayer at the Istiqlal Mosque, which will host Pope Francis during his visit to Jakarta on August 30, 2024.
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Boys bathe in a large water puddle left after heavy rains near a camp for people displaced by conflict in Yemen's Hajjah province on August 27, 2024.
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An Egyptian dancer performs the Tanoura outside a coffee shop at al-Muizz Street in the old Islamic quarter of Cairo on August 29, 2024.
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Inmates exercise at the courtyard of the La Esperanza prison in San Salvador as part of the government's "Zero Leisure Plan," which offers several rehabilitation and reintegration programmes on August 29, 2024.
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A woman farmer reaps leaves at a tea estate in Hatton on September 1, 2024.
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Employees work on a steel tube tower production line at a factory in Haian, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on September 1, 2024.
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Pupils of the first grade attend a class on the first day of the new school year in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on September 2, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Youths wade in a storm surge along Manila Bay amid heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Yagi in Manila on September 2, 2024.
Syria rolls out its EXPO 2024 exhibition today (on 4 September), targeting local industry in all its forms. Marketed as an opportunity to sell Syrian…
Regional elections in East Germany have the far right set to win its first state election since the Nazi era. Initial exit polls predicted that the…
Maryam Al Saadi, the acclaimed Emirati short story writer and novelist, builds her literary world around the small, often unnoticed moments of life…
In a bid to expand trade opportunities and diversify its economy, Iraq has drawn up plans for the Iraq Development Road. If realised, it would be a 1…
Al Majalla devotes its September cover story to Iraq, offering in-depth articles and analyses on the international and regional power struggles for…
Iraq’s geography is both a blessing and a curse.In many ways, it's strategic. A gateway between Asia and Europe, it is the land bridge between Saudi…
Baghdad: Since its inception as a state in the 1920s, geopolitics have imposed harsh realities onto Iraq. As such, it has had difficulty managing its…
While international and regional power struggles for influence within Iraq have been commonplace for some time, escalating regional tensions have…
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