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RAFAH : Relatives mourn during the funeral of two brothers 16-year-old Omar and 12-year-old Mohammed Breem, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike yesterday ahead of long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2014. The skies over Gaza remained calm as a long-term ceasefire took hold, ending the deadliest violence in a decade with Israel and Hamas both claiming ‘victory’ in the 50-day war. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB Two Brothers, Pictures Of The Week, What Really Happened, Nbc News, Victorious
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RAFAH : Relatives mourn during the funeral of two brothers 16-year-old Omar and 12-year-old Mohammed Breem, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike yesterday ahead of long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2014. The skies over Gaza remained calm as a long-term ceasefire took hold, ending the deadliest violence in a decade with Israel and Hamas both claiming ‘victory’ in the 50-day war. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB
a boy in an orange vest looking out the window
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Eight-year-old Samir ® from Somalia looks out of the window of the Astral rescue ship from the non-governmental organisation Proactiva Open Arms, while others rest as they head towards the Italian island of Lampedusa in a storm of 35 knots after they...
a person holding up a kite in front of a flock of birds on the ground
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AFGHANISTAN, Mazar-i-Sharif : An Afghan balloon vendor walks past the Hazrat-e-Ali shrine, or Blue Mosque, in Mazar-i-sharif on September 21, 2014. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance. Despite significant improvement in the last decade the country is still extremely poor and remains highly dependent on foreign aid. AFP PHOTO / Farshad Usyan
a group of people sitting at desks in a room through a hole in the wall
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GAZA CITY : Palestinian students are seen through a damaged sitting in a classroom at a goverment school in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on September 14, 2014 on the first day of the new school year. Half a million children in Gaza start the new school year three weeks late as a result of the devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that ended on August 26, 2014. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS
two children standing next to each other in front of a wall with graffiti on it
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LEBANON, Beirut : Syrian refugee children beg for money in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on August 29, 2014. The number of refugees from the conflict in Syria now tops three million, the UN said, as US President Barack Obama admitted he has no strategy to tackle advancing jihadists. AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO