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Libya

A teacher checks the temperature of a student before entering a class after some schools reopened amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Misrata, Libya. (REUTERS)

Pandemic, conflict disrupt Libyan children’s education

society

Algerian activists rally in the capital Algiers on October 8, to denounce the brutal murder of a 19-year-old woman and those of 38 other women killed this year. (AFP)

Rape, murder of Algerian woman spark calls for death penalty

Eid

Men buy sheep at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Tunis, Tunisia. (AFP)

Sacrificial rites of Eid al-Adha hindered by pandemic, purchasing power

UN

Volunteers wearing face masks due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic distribute food aid at the central market in Tunis. (AFP)

UN commission calls for inter-Arab solidarity in face of pandemic

Drama

Syrian actress Sulaf Fawakherji (Sulaf Fawakherji’s Instagram account)

Love kiss in ‘Chicago Street’ creates drama off-screen

Lebanon

A woman lights a candle at the site where a man killed himself in Beirut, Lebanon. (REUTERS)

Suicide spike in Lebanon amid socio-economic turmoil

Egpyt

Egypt’s street children face poverty, pandemic

Iraqi

Iraqis wearing protective masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, buy fresh produce from a street seller at a market in Karrada, in the capital Baghdad, on July 14, 2020. (AFP)

Pandemic helps Iraq with food self-sufficiency

Egypt

Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, right, and Fatma Youssef, a volunteer, left, package food into boxes, at an apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

Egyptian volunteers make meals for pandemic patients