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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces (L), receives Mohamed Abdul Money Abdul Hafiz, Secretary General of the National Council for Care of Martyrs Families and the Injured in Egypt (2nd L), during a Sea Palace barza. They are seen with Sheikh Khalifa bin Tahnoon bin Mohamed Al Nahyan, Director of the Martyrs' Families' Affairs Office of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court (R). Rashed Al Mansoori / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi -
A Turkey backed Syrian rebel-fighter patrols with his rifle near the city of al-Bab, in the Aleppo province on the border with Turkey. Extremist factions including Syria's former Al-Qaeda branch have pulled heavy weapons from parts of a proposed demilitarised zone. AFP -
The Instagram star and beauty expert Rafif al-Yasiri's grave is seen in the cemetery of Najaf, Iraq. Reuters -
Israeli soldiers stand near a Palestinian farmer waiting to reach a farm to harvest olives in an olive grove on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Yetma, near the Jewish settlement of Rehelim, near Nablus. EPA -
Palestinian protesters use slingshots a demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP -
Election campaign posters are installed on a road side ahead of the upcoming Parliamentary elections, in Helmand, Afghanistan. The Taliban appealed to the people of Afghanistan to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections in the country. EPA
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