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Displaced residents hug as they stand in front of the rubble of their destroyed house in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Family returns to their Lebanese city to find a crater where their 50-year-old home once stood
By LUJAIN JO - Associated Press
Fri,11/29/24-6:23AM , 46 Reads
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — In eastern Lebanon's city of Baalbek, the Jawhari family gathered around a gaping crater where their home once stood, tears streaming as they tried to make sense of the destruction.
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In this photo provided by Mashala Shelter, Hussein Hamza feeds dogs at his animal shelter in Kfour, south Lebanon in 2024. (Mashala Shelter via AP)

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A man in south Lebanon cares for pets left behind as residents flee Israeli strikes
By LUJAIN JO - Associated Press
Tue,10/01/24-11:15AM , 51 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A dog clings to Hussein Hamza inside a car as he pans his camera around to show the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.

“Poor thing. Look at this, he’s clinging to me out of fear,” Hamza says in the video he posted online. “A missile hit here,” he said, his voice shaking.
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Vivianne Robinson poses a photo, during 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The Olympics superfan has attended seven Games over the span of 40 years. (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)

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Meet the Olympics superfan who spent her savings to get to her 7th Games
By LUJAIN JO - Associated Press
Wed,07/31/24-7:37AM , 85 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Covered with pins and adornments, Vivianne Robinson is hard to miss in the streets of Paris.

The Olympics superfan has attended seven Summer Games over the span of 40 years. But this trip to Paris came at a hefty price — $10,000 to be precise.
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Dozens of Syrians wait at the President's Bridge in Damascus for relatives they hope would be among those released from prison May 3, 2022, on the second day of the Muslim Fitr holiday. A newly released video taken in 2013 showed blindfolded men who were thrown into a large pit and shot dead by Syrian agents, who then set the bodies on fire. The video stirs new fears over the fate of tens of thousands who went missing during Syria's long-running conflict and serves as a grim reminder of the war's unpunished massacres, just as similar atrocities take place in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

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Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families
By LUJAIN JO - Associated Press
Tue,05/17/22-1:20AM , 473 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago.
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