When people used to ask me where I’m from, they would smile and shake their heads in disbelief when I said Paradise. “Paradise?” they would ask. …
Stefano Summo
World in Photos
A local resident tries to contains fire in Thrakomakedones, near Mount Parnitha, north of Athens, on August 7, 2021. - Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze on the outskirts of Athens as several fires raged in Greece. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
A demonstrator marches with a sign showing the face of one of the young victims of the Beirut blast with a caption in Arabic beneath reading "she could have been your daughter", in the Gemmayze neighbourhood as protesters head towards the port of Lebanon's capital on August 4, 2021, on the first anniversary of the blast that ravaged the port and the city. - Hundreds of Lebanese marched on August 4 to mark a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged Beirut, protesting impunity over the country's worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)
A Palestinian boy sprays a friend with water from a pipe, on a very hot day in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2021. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Residents wade through a waterlogged street after the rising water levels caused flooding in the low-lying areas near the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad on August 7, 2021. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Volleyball - Men - Medal Ceremony - Ariake Arena, Tokyo, Japan – August 7, 2021. Team members of France pose with their gold medals after the match. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Soccer Football - Men's Team - Medal Ceremony - International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan - August 7, 2021. Gold medallists Brazil celebrate during the medal ceremony. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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