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Sally Greige poses after being crowned Miss Lebanon 2014 in Beirut on October 5, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)
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Smoke rises during airstrikes on the Syrian town of Kobani, on October 8, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)
New US-led airstrikes hit besieged Syrian town
Mursitpinar, AP—The US-led coalition pounded positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Thursday in some of the most intensive strikes in the air campaign so far, a Kurdish official and an activist group said....Caption:
Activists march in support of 43 missing students, who vanished in the city of Iguala, in downtown Mexico City, Mexico, on October 8, 2014. (EPA/Jose Mendez)
Thousands march in Mexico to demand action over massacre
Mexico City, Reuters—Thousands marched through the Mexican capital on Wednesday to demand the government find out what happened to dozens of missing students, who are feared to have been massacred by gang members and police. The students from a teachers’ college...Caption:
Members of the ‘I Saw Harassment’ NGO in Egypt gather in Cairo, Egypt during the Eid Al-Adha holiday, on October 4, 2014. (Courtesy of ‘I Saw Harassment’ Facebook page)
Egypt deploys female anti-harassment police unit
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Noor and Salma, two 15-year-old Egyptian girls, were flushed with happiness when a policewoman accompanied them through the crowded entrance of the Metro cinema in central Cairo on the first day of Eid Al-Adha. The female police officer is a...Caption:
In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)