Anti-government protesters gather outside the provincial council building during protests demanding free elections and against corruption in Basra, Iraq. AP Photo
Anti-government protesters gather outside the provincial council building during protests demanding free elections and against corruption in Basra, Iraq. AP Photo
Mahmud Moussa rests on a makeshift bed outside his house, which was destroyed in the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
Mahmud Moussa rests on a makeshift bed outside his house, which was destroyed in the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
Palestinian workers cross illegaly into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's barrier fence near the Mitar checkpoint and the village of al-Dahriya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. AFP
Palestinian workers cross illegaly into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's barrier fence near the Mitar checkpoint and the village of al-Dahriya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. AFP
Israeli infantry soldiers walk next to a tank and an armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. AFP
Israeli infantry soldiers walk next to a tank and an armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. AFP
A Palestinian protester from a group calling themselves the 'Night Confusion Units' flashes the V-sign for victory as they gather near the Gaza-Israel border east of Al Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Israel's army launched new air strikes against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into Israeli territory. AFP
A Palestinian protester from a group calling themselves the 'Night Confusion Units' flashes the V-sign for victory as they gather near the Gaza-Israel border east of Al Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Israel's army launched new air strikes against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into Israeli territory. AFP
A Syrian street vendor sells apples and prickly pears across from a mural painted as part of an awareness campaign by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) intitative, bearing instructions on protection from Covid-19 in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province after a spike in infections in the area. AFP
A Syrian street vendor sells apples and prickly pears across from a mural painted as part of an awareness campaign by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) intitative, bearing instructions on protection from Covid-19 in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province after a spike in infections in the area. AFP
Iraqis lift national flags as they demonstrate near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to protest assasinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the governorate. AFP
Iraqis lift national flags as they demonstrate near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to protest assasinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the governorate. AFP
Rubble of destroyed buildings is seen in a neighborhood near the site of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
Rubble of destroyed buildings is seen in a neighborhood near the site of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo

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  • Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
  • George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
  • Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
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