Rubble is all that remains of the Awad Allah family home in occupied Sur Baher. Inhabited since 1990 and shelters 15 Palestinians, the 4-storey building was demolished without warning by Israeli occupation bulldozers this morning.

This is part of the systematic scheme of home demolitions, land seizure, and collective punishment used by the Israeli occupation to terrorize Palestinian families, displace communities, and impose control over occupied Jerusalem.

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A kindred spirit

A woman dusts off a plant in her apartment that was heavily damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 6. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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Rescuers use a crane to remove debris while they work at the site of an apartment building, which was hit during Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 6. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

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Enemies of Russia

Rescuers assist elderlly residents as they evacuate an apartment building, which was heavily damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 6. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

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Kyiv, Ukraine
A multistorey residential building left partially destroyed by a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital is seen through a broken window.

Photograph: Serhii Okunev/AFP/Getty Images

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#Kyiv

Thessaloniki, Greece
Local people try to extinguish a wildfire on the outskirts of the northern city.

Photograph: Giannis Papanikos/AP

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A living crown

Nairobi, Kenya
Rodgers Oloo Magutha, 28, popularly known as Nairobi Birdman, balances a black kite on his head as he prepares to collect plastic at a dumpsite in Kayole, a low-income neighbourhood. To support himself and the birds, Magutha earns a living collecting recyclable plastic from dumpsites and cleaning waste from Nairobi’s rivers, saying the work reflects his commitment to protecting the environment.

Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Tehran, Iran
Mourners stand next to a placard calling for revenge as they gather to pay tribute to Iran’s slain former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Grand Mosalla mosque complex.

Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images

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#funeral

Caracas, Venezuela
A worker paints graves for unidentified victims of the June 24 earthquake at La Esperanza cemetery in Catia La Mar, La Guaira state. Nearly 3,000 people are confirmed dead after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, but tens of thousands remain missing.

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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#cemetery

Emerald Lake

Qinghai, China
Tourists visit the jewel-like Emerald Lake in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture – a unique salt lake situated on a high plateau.

Photograph: VCG/Getty Images

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#翡翠湖

Powerless cub

Havana, Cuba
A rare white Bengal tiger cub at Cuba’s national zoo. Its birth marks a reproductive milestone for the facility despite a lack of stable electricity and a shortage of operational resources that complicate the feeding and rearing of exotic species.

Photograph: Norlys Perez/Reuters

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#tigers
#zoo

Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert, 2025

A landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history.

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#capitalism
#history

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton, 2025

Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good.

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#medicine
#history

Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A day in the life of the English language by Simon Horobin, 2019

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time.

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#nonfiction
#English
#etymology

Thessaloniki, Greece
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a fire in Oreokastro. According to the fire service, the flames ignited in a ravine within a mountainous area on the evening of 4 July and spread quickly, affecting several businesses and prompting evacuations in nearby settlements.

Photograph: Achilleas Chiras/EPA

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#Greece

Thessaloniki, Greece
A wildfire on the outskirts of the northern city.

Photograph: Giannis Papanikos/PA

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#Greece
#women

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"A leading Gaza doctor may die soon in an Israeli prison - his targeting has been deliberate

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s case is not isolated. If you target doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospitals and clinics - all protected under international law - you deal a double blow to the entire civilian population, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-doctor-israel-abuse-torture-medicine-b3009886.html

#israel #torture #prisons #prisoners #doctors #nurses #paramedics #hospitals #clinics #medics #gaza #palestine #HussamAbuSafiya #apartheid #genocide

Thessaloniki, Greece
A wildfire on the outskirts of the northern city.

Photograph: Giannis Papanikos/PA

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#wildfires
#Greece
#women

Thessaloniki, Greece
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a fire in Oreokastro. According to the fire service, the flames ignited in a ravine within a mountainous area on the evening of 4 July and spread quickly, affecting several businesses and prompting evacuations in nearby settlements.

Photograph: Achilleas Chiras/EPA

#photography
#wildfires
#Greece