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Volunteers helping animals who were injured or whose homes were destroyed by fire in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, spanning a vast terrain in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay (shared by our Observer Eduarda Fernandes).

Volunteers rush to help animals hurt or displaced by wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf. Some families, however, didn’t find their relatives’ bodies where they were supposed to be buried. (Screengrab, social media)

Iraqi families retrieve bodies of loved ones buried during Covid-19 lockdown

Images from a viral tweet posted by Elijah Schaffer on September 25, 2020 who claimed that they were mail-in ballots thrown in a dumpster in California.

Debunked: Viral photographs do not show a thousand mail-in ballots in California dumpster

These videos aim to prove that carbon dioxide trapped in face masks when we exhale constitutes a health hazard – but the science says otherwise.

Online videos falsely claim that face masks can cause CO2 poisoning

Screengrabs of student demands written on the wall of a university in Dongguan from Twitter (left) and a Weibo video showing students from Xi’an Translation Institute protesting from their dormitories on September 21 (right)

Chinese university students win concessions after protesting campus lockdowns

Screengrab of a 17-second video filmed in southwestern Colombia and posted on social media on September 21.

Four men executed in Colombian mangrove forest amid wave of massacres

This deer collapsed in the middle of a small town after being hunted down by hounds. This still was taken from a video by Fernando Abreu.

New video of a deer being hunted by hounds in France sparks outrage online

In the last weeks of September 2020, Hong Kong Twitter users posted images of mooncakes, milk tea and protest stickers in support of the Yellow Economic Circle pro-democracy movement.

Keeping Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement alive with mooncakes, milk tea and taxis

Social media users claim that the presence of this medication in Africa – even though it hasn’t been authorised for testing in Europe or the United States – is proof that medication is being tested on different continents.

Debunked: This drug is not a Covid-19 vaccine being tested in Africa

Long queues in front of two mobile coronavirus testing centres in the Barbar region (left) and in Manama (right).

Bahrain sees sharp rise in Covid-19 cases after religious holidays

This screengrab shows the map created by Fatiman Alher, which is hosted by Open Street Map.

Meet the geographer from Niger mapping deadly floods to help those who need it

A panorama view of the migrant and refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos

Blocked at a camp in Greece's Samos, refugees demand legal justice

A recent digital ad from the Trump Make America Great Again Committee telling Americans to “support our troops" uses Russian models dressed as soldiers and a Russian jet. Photo analysis from Wassim Nasr

Trump official campaign ad uses Russian planes, guns, and models

A video from mid-August of guards at a safari camp in Kenya recently sparked outrage on social media. Screengrab from video.

Video of wildebeests blocked by Kenyan tourist camp sparks national outrage

This image shows a rap battle between two young rappers in Tehran in 2019.

Iran’s rap battles: youth with a 'pure love' for rap

This screengrab shows a man hitting a 14-year-old Kurdish girl who, along with her family, was working as a seasonal worker gathering hazelnuts in the Sakarya region of northern Turkey.

Attacks on Kurdish seasonal workers in Turkey highlight continued racism

Left, the 2020 edition of the math textbook where girls have been removed. Right, the 2019 of textbook before girls were removed.

Iranian publishers remove images of girls from math textbook, parents add them back

Workers at Beirut’s port fled the giant fire that began September 10 in a warehouse containing motor oil and tires. (Screengrabs of a video posted on Twitter).

New fire at Beirut port causes panic among citizens already reeling from blasts

Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California, where the fires have ravaged an adjacent hill. Photo posted on Twitter.

An apocalyptic ambiance: Fires on America's West Coast seen through amateur images

A fire at a Hindu temple in the Andhra Pradesh region of India in the early hours of Sunday September 6.

In India, fire at temple site stokes regional political hostilities

Junior Diakhaté uses social media to raise the funds to renovate dilapidated classrooms in local schools. (Photos: Twitter @Niintche)

How a small-town Senegalese teacher is using social media to fix up dilapidated schools

An elderly woman seated outside a supermarket where she was publicly shamed and forced to wear a sign declaring that she is a thief.

Grandmother in China publicly shamed with sign for stealing meat

22-year-old Asrar Usmani climbing a building to save a cat trapped on a ledge in September 2019 (Credit: Twitter)

Meet the ‘Spiderman of Bangalore’ who risks his life to save trapped cats, dogs, monkeys and more

Left: Rioters in Malmo, Sweden on Aug. 28. Center: Local Mustafa Alshabi presents flowers to police officers the day after the riots. Right: In the Rosengard neighbourhood, residents clean up the streets after the riots dispersed.

After riots over Koran burning, Swedish neighbourhood responds with flowers and community action

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