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Crude burial of 22-year-old highlights plight of female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia

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Cairo woman rescues little girl being sexually assaulted on CCTV feed

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Videos capture police violence during Tunisian protests

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Tunisian activists say authorities’ campaign to kill stray dogs ‘barbaric’

Syrian mercenaries exchange fire with Armenian soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh at the beginning of October. In the centre, a young Syrian films himself on the frontline during a bombardment near Horadiz. (Screengrabs.)

Videos shared on social media show Syrians sent to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh

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

Angry protesters in Baghdad broke into the headquarters of Iraqi TV channel Dijlah and set the building on fire (photos from social media).

Protesters storm offices of Iraqi TV channel that broadcast music during Islamic holy day of Ashura

Police officer Erika Urrea rescued man in a wheelchair just before he would have been hit by a high-speed train. Images are screengrabs from video.

VIDEO: In the United States, a police officer rescues man seconds before he would have been hit by a high-speed train

In northern Tunis, two police officers harassed a woman and tried to force her into an unmarked car. The image (right) shows passersby, who intervened, moving the woman away from the car. This is one of three recently reported cases of police brutality.

Tunis-based rights groups sound alarm over police violence against women

In Deir Ezzor province, the Euphrates no longer reaches even one third of its usual flow. Photo Ibrahim Hassin.

Syrian villagers along Euphrates accuse Turkey of cutting water access

Left: Injured people being treated in the parking garage of an overcrowded hospital following a massive explosion Aug. 4 in Beirut. Right: chaos in the halls of St. Joseph Hospital, where the wounded were treated on the ground and in hallways.

Explosion in Beirut: hospitals overwhelmed in the distressed capital

The healthcare worker Mohamad al-Khater sings for one of his patients while taking blood. Screenshot.

Video: In Iraq, a caregiver comforts Covid-19 patients by singing

Wouroud Kanju is the latest victim of the arms and drugs trafficking that is rampant in Shatila camp. (Screengrabs from security footage)

Young mother shot dead amid growing insecurity in Lebanon’s Shatila camp

Left: Sofia Talouni, a trans woman originally from Morocco, "outed" a gay man in an April 10 Instagram Live feed, saying she wanted to expose hypocrisy and homophobia in Moroccan society. Right: Talouni's example prompted a wave of outings in Morocco.

Gay Moroccans outed in the midst of coronavirus lockdown

Lockdown orders have had a devastating effect on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were kicked out of Algeria and have been living in camps in the border town of Arlit, Niger.

Migrants in Niger protest seemingly endless quarantine

Screengrabs from amateur videos showing Hindu participants in riots in Delhi that started on February 23, 2020.

Who are India’s RSS, the Hindu nationalists accused of inciting violence towards Muslims?

Screengrabs of some of Adham Al Sayed’s videos, which show daily life in Wuhan under quarantine.

Meet the Lebanese student who decided to stay in Wuhan despite Covid-19

Screengrabs of Snapchat stories filmed in Sadraynla Square on February 5, 2020.

How Iraq’s 'blue hat' militiamen went from protecting to killing protesters

Gorgui Lamine saved Alex from the fire engulfing his apartment. Photos: Roberta Etter

‘I didn’t stop to think, I just climbed’, migrant hero says after rescuing man with disability from fire

These photos show a mosaic portrait of Koussay Hamadtou by Mirghani Mohamed Salih. (Photos by Osamn Mohamed Salih).

Brothers create mosaic portraits of protesters killed in Sudan’s revolution

Screengrabs of several videos by Radwa Mohamed.

#WhereIsRadwa trends in Egypt after woman who criticised the regime goes missing

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