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06/03/2025

Wrestlers gather in the arena, practicing for their upcoming matches to each other’s bodies in Edirne, Turkey, July 2018. Each year, about one thousand wrestlers from across Turkey come to Edirne to compete in the historic Kirkpinar oil wrestling tournament.
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06/01/2025

Two fans died and a police officer is in a coma after mass nationwide celebrations for Paris Saint-Germain’s historic Champions League victory, European soccer’s biggest prize, French authorities said Sunday.

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in the city of Dax during a PSG street party after Saturday night’s final in Munich, the national police service said. A man was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during PSG celebrations, the interior minister’s office said. The circumstances of both are being investigated.

A police officer was hit accidentally by fireworks in Coutance in northwest France and placed in an artificial coma because of grave eye injuries, the national police service said.

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06/01/2025

Two fans died and a police officer is in a coma after mass nationwide celebrations for Paris Saint-Germain’s historic Champions League victory, European soccer’s biggest prize, French authorities said Sunday.

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in the city of Dax during a PSG street party after Saturday night’s final in Munich, the national police service said. A man was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during PSG celebrations, the interior minister’s office said. The circumstances of both are being investigated.

A police officer was hit accidentally by fireworks in Coutance in northwest France and placed in an artificial coma because of grave eye injuries, the national police service said.
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05/30/2025

A bomb explodes at the end of the street, causing buildings to collapse and people to flee in Gaza City on May 30, 2025. Israeli colonial forces bomb Al-Yazi residential buildings and commercial shops near Qashqar Mosque in the Old City of Gaza. Middle East Images photographer Yousef Al-Zanoun was also injured in the attack while documenting it. Photos show the immediate aftermath of the bombardment, with Palestinians fleeing the area in panic. At least 34 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded on this day in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.

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05/26/2025

Syrian models walk the runway in a magnificent carnival of fashion and bridal shows with wide participation from designers in the first event of its kind after the fall of the Assad regime in the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus, Syria, on May 21, 2025. The event drew a remarkable attendance from fashion and bridal enthusiasts, amidst a festive atmosphere that reflected the return of cultural life to the capital with all vitality.

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05/19/2025

Galatasaray fans gather to celebrate their team’s championship title for the 2024-2025 Turkish Super Lig season in Kayseri, Turkiye, on May 18, 2025. Galatasaray achieved the 25th Turkish Super Lig title.

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05/18/2025

More than 100,000 people demonstrated in the centre of The Hague against their government’s position on Israel. Protesters are demanding that the Schoof administration take concrete action against Israel and that the European Union impose sanctions on the Netanyahu government. Dressed in red to symbolise a red line, the crowd marched from Malieveld, past the International Court of Justice, and into the city centre.

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05/16/2025

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77 Years Since the Nakba Day

Palestinians face mounting pressure 77 years after they were expelled en masse from their lands. Israeli army destroys Palestinian houses in West Bank on different pretexts, while hundreds of thousands of them are dislocated in Gaza.
Palestinian woman Ghalia Muqbil, 87 years old, who currently lives in Al-Arroub camp in north of Hebron, still holds on to the key to her house she was forced to leave 77 years ago.
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05/11/2025

Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May.

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05/11/2025

India’s military strikes into Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan earlier this week killed more than 100 militants, including their prominent leadership, India’s director general of military operations said on Sunday. His comments came just one day after India and Pakistan reached a ceasefire agreement following U.S.-led mediation talks.

Lt. Gen. Rajiv Ghai said India’s armed forces, during the recent violence, struck nine militant infrastructure and training facilities, including sites of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group that India blames for carrying out major militant strikes in India and the disputed region of Kashmir.
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05/07/2025

The spiral of threat exchange between India and Pakistan culminated today in the long-feared confrontation between the two nuclear powers, as India carried out airstrikes into Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Photos show the houses of suspects of the Pahalgam terrorist attack destroyed by Indian officials soon after the attacks. The Pahalgam attack also hit the tourism industry of Jammu and Kashmir hard.

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01/06/2025

Flight 752

On January 8th 2020 Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was on a schedule to depart from Tehran to Kiev. The Boeing 737-800 was shot down shortly after take off from…