• A Palestinian child plays under a tarp at the harbour in Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP
    A Palestinian child plays under a tarp at the harbour in Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP
  • Arabian horse entry Hemlaje is seen during the 5th Benghazi Arabian Horse Show. Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
    Arabian horse entry Hemlaje is seen during the 5th Benghazi Arabian Horse Show. Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
  • A young boy walks beside some luggage as people wait to cross into to Egypt, at the border in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Hatem Moussa / AP Photo
    A young boy walks beside some luggage as people wait to cross into to Egypt, at the border in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Hatem Moussa / AP Photo
  • A woman hails a taxi while standing under Patriotic Union of Kurdistan flags Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Jacob Russell / Reuters
    A woman hails a taxi while standing under Patriotic Union of Kurdistan flags Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Jacob Russell / Reuters
  • A newly wedded woman checks her mobile phone during a mass wedding of officers loyal to Syria’s president Bashar Al-Assad in hotel Dama Rose, Damascus, Syria. April 29, 2014. Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
    A newly wedded woman checks her mobile phone during a mass wedding of officers loyal to Syria’s president Bashar Al-Assad in hotel Dama Rose, Damascus, Syria. April 29, 2014. Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
  • Labourers fill a pot with melted iron to pour into a casting mould to make machine parts in a foundry in Karachi, Pakistan. Akhtar Soomro / Reuters
    Labourers fill a pot with melted iron to pour into a casting mould to make machine parts in a foundry in Karachi, Pakistan. Akhtar Soomro / Reuters
  • An Egyptian woman holding the portrait of a relative reacts outisde the court that sentenced 682 alleged Islamists and a Muslim Brotherhood leader to death in the southern city of Minya, Egypt. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    An Egyptian woman holding the portrait of a relative reacts outisde the court that sentenced 682 alleged Islamists and a Muslim Brotherhood leader to death in the southern city of Minya, Egypt. Khaled Desouki / AFP
  • An injured man walks after what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria. Stringer / Reuters
    An injured man walks after what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria. Stringer / Reuters
  • Palestinian girls take part in a training session at the Beit Lahia football club in northern Gaza strip. Mahmud Hams / AFP
    Palestinian girls take part in a training session at the Beit Lahia football club in northern Gaza strip. Mahmud Hams / AFP
  • A Pakistani worker takes a break at a steel mill in an industrial area of Lahore, Pakistan. Arif Ali / AFP
    A Pakistani worker takes a break at a steel mill in an industrial area of Lahore, Pakistan. Arif Ali / AFP
  • An Iraqi woman walks toward the voting booth to cast her vote at a polling station, for the Iraqi parliamentary election, in Amman, Jordan. Mohammad Hannon / Jordan
    An Iraqi woman walks toward the voting booth to cast her vote at a polling station, for the Iraqi parliamentary election, in Amman, Jordan. Mohammad Hannon / Jordan

Region in focus - May 2, 2014

James Ohara

May 02, 2014

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