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A health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stands outside UNICEF tents at an Ebola treatment center run by the non-governmental international organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders — MSF) in Monrovia, on October 27, 2014. (AFP)
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Tunisian Ennahda party founder and leader Rachid Ghannouchi speaks during a press conference in Tunis on October 30, 2014. (AFP/Fethi Belaid)
Tunisia: Ghannouchi calls for national unity government
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisia’s Ennahda party leader Rachid Ghannouchi called for the formation of a national unity government in the North African republic, warning that no political party in the country should seek to monopolize power at the present time. His...Caption:
A Palestinian woman shouts at an Israeli policemen in the old city of Jerusalem on October 30, 2014 after Israeli authorities temporarily closed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
Muslim men over 50 pray at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque amid tight security
Jerusalem, Reuters—Muslim men over 50 prayed at Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday amid intense security, a day after Israel closed all access to the sacred compound for the first time in more than a decade following violence on the streets. More...Caption:
A convoy of peshmerga vehicles makes its way to the Turkish-Syrian border, near the town of Kiziltepe, in the southeastern Mardin province October 29, 2014. (Reuters)
Air strikes hit Kobani as Kurdish Peshmerga prepare to enter
Suruc, Turkey, Reuters—US-led air strikes hit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions around the Syrian border town of Kobani on Friday in an apparent bid to pave the way for heavily-armed Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces to enter from neighboring Turkey. The...Caption:
People protest against their longtime President Blaise Compaore in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on October 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Theo Renaut)