Ordinary people in Iraq were given disposable cameras. This is what they want you to see
A shopkeeper squeezes fresh orange juice. A man sits while his cat sunbathes on a motorcycle. Two girls play with their new umbrellas.
These street scenes paint a picture of how life has changed in Iraq in the 20 years since the United States invaded the country in 2003.
A year after the start of the Iraq War, Michael Itkoff — an American studying photography at the time — had an idea. He sent 20 disposable cameras to a photojournalist working in Iraq and asked for the cameras to be distributed to citizens.
He wanted to capture what life looked like through the eyes of Iraqis. The prompt was simple: Show the American public what you want them to see.
"We were seeking to counter some of the mass media depictions of the conflict that were painting with a broad brush this idea of the insurgency where every Iraqi could be the enemy," said Itkoff, who published the photos in Daylight, a visual storytelling platform and book publisher he co-founded.
Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa pleads for action before landmark IPCC report is expected to issue ‘final warning’
The world must step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration, the prime minister of Samoa has urged.
On the eve of a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is expected to deliver a scientific “final warning” on the climate emergency, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s prime minister, issued a desperate plea for action.
“We’re all impacted, but the degree of the impact is in the particular circumstance of countries. So our low-lying atoll countries, it’s right there, we’re living with it,” said Mata’afa.
Germany's Migration About-FaceBerlin Seeks to Recruit Skilled Labor from Africa
Von Heiner Hoffmann und Nana Kofi Acquah (Photos) in Accra, Ghana
It’s Friday, and Friday is officially colorful-shirt day in Ghana. All employees at the migration center participate, donning pink tops with a beige-red-and-white pattern, the "GIZ" inscription slightly hidden. It’s just a tiny bit of self-promotion for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), which runs the facility. The colorful shirts are a political statement: For the last 20 years, thanks to a government initiative, Ghanaians have been celebrating their African roots every Friday. And the weekly event helps out the local textile industry as well.
Yet even as the migration center staff members are celebrating the merits of Ghana, most of those visiting the center have an entirely different priority: Getting out of the country. To Germany.
Kuwait court annuls 2022 parliamentary election
In the 2022 elections, opposition figures, including Islamists, made inroads amid deadlock with the executive branch. Kuwait is the only Gulf Arab state to have a fully elected parliament.
Kuwait's consitutional court on Sunday annulled the parliamentary election held in 2022, state media said.
The court ruled in favor of reinstating the previous parliament, which was disbanded in June last year.
"The Kuwaiti Constitutional Court issued a verdict on Sunday annulling the results of the 2022 National Assembly elections," the official KUNA news agency said.
The court cited discrepancies in the decree dissolving the previous parliament as the reason behind the verdict.
Lawyer Nawaf Al-Yassin told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency that the ruling followed several electoral appeals.
Israeli, Palestinian Authority officials meet for talks in Egypt
Backed by the US and Jordan, the day-long meeting follows last month’s talks in Jordan.
Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are meeting in Egypt for talks amid criticism and calls for a boycott by Palestinian political parties.
The one-day meeting, which is also being attended by Egyptian, US and Jordanian officials, began on Sunday in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The talks come ahead of Ramadan, set to begin on Thursday, in a diplomatic effort to maintain “calm” during the Muslim holy month, when matters often escalate between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Taliban officials must sack sons given government jobs
The leader of the Taliban has ordered Afghan officials to sack relatives they have hired to government positions.
Hibatullah Akhundzada's decree says officials should replace appointed sons or other family members - and refrain from hiring relatives in future.
The Taliban dismissed some senior staff when they took power in 2021, while others fled.
There have been allegations that inexperienced staff have been hired based on their personal connections.
The Afghan Islamic Press, based in Peshawar, Pakistan, reported that the decree followed allegations that several senior Taliban officials had appointed their sons to roles within the government.
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