• Villagers rest for a moment as they collect Saffron flowers at dawn during harvest season in Askaoun, a small village near Taliouine, in Morocco's Middle Atlas Mountains. The saffron plants bloom for only two weeks a year and the flowers, each containing three crimson stigmas, become useless if they blossom, putting pressure on the women to work quickly and steadily. AP Photo
    Villagers rest for a moment as they collect Saffron flowers at dawn during harvest season in Askaoun, a small village near Taliouine, in Morocco's Middle Atlas Mountains. The saffron plants bloom for only two weeks a year and the flowers, each containing three crimson stigmas, become useless if they blossom, putting pressure on the women to work quickly and steadily. AP Photo
  • An Afghan girl works at a brick-making factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan. Reuters
    An Afghan girl works at a brick-making factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan. Reuters
  • Tunisia's new parliament members take an oath in Tunis, Tunisia. Reuters
    Tunisia's new parliament members take an oath in Tunis, Tunisia. Reuters
  • Iraqi demonstrators look at the pictures and items of demonstrators who were killed during the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. Reuters
    Iraqi demonstrators look at the pictures and items of demonstrators who were killed during the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. Reuters
  • A demonstrator reads a book as he lies on the ground during ongoing anti-government protests, in the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon. Reuters
    A demonstrator reads a book as he lies on the ground during ongoing anti-government protests, in the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon. Reuters
  • A Lebanese boy walks past portraits of Shiite Muslim clerics during an event marking the group's Martyrs' Day in the southern town of Ghazieh, south of the port city of Sidon. Portraits from left to right show Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Lebanon's Shiite Muslim religious leader Mussa al-Sadr, who disappeared during a trip to Libya in 1978, late Hezbollah leader Abbas Mussawi, the Lebanese Shiite movement's current chief, Hassan Nasrallah, and far right Hezbollah late commanders Ragheb Harb and Imad Moghnieh. AFP
    A Lebanese boy walks past portraits of Shiite Muslim clerics during an event marking the group's Martyrs' Day in the southern town of Ghazieh, south of the port city of Sidon. Portraits from left to right show Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Lebanon's Shiite Muslim religious leader Mussa al-Sadr, who disappeared during a trip to Libya in 1978, late Hezbollah leader Abbas Mussawi, the Lebanese Shiite movement's current chief, Hassan Nasrallah, and far right Hezbollah late commanders Ragheb Harb and Imad Moghnieh. AFP
  • A woman demonstrator shows a torn vote card during a protest against the country's ruling elite and rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, Algeria. Reuters
    A woman demonstrator shows a torn vote card during a protest against the country's ruling elite and rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, Algeria. Reuters
  • Syrian Kurdish demonstrators take to the streets of the northeastern city of Qamishli, the de-facto capital of Syria's embattled Kurdish minority to protest against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States this week. AFP
    Syrian Kurdish demonstrators take to the streets of the northeastern city of Qamishli, the de-facto capital of Syria's embattled Kurdish minority to protest against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States this week. AFP
  • People do exercises at a public park past a wall art showing Saudi's flag and landmarks, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. AP Photo
    People do exercises at a public park past a wall art showing Saudi's flag and landmarks, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. AP Photo

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