Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #936 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY April 23, 2024: Rebuilding Raqqa ‘Pearl of the Euphrates’ by ZUMA Partner agency Le Pictorium photo-journalist Chris Huby: The city of Raqqa symbolizes the tragic fate of Syria over the past 12 years. From the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, the northern city was a major target for rebel groups. It then became the stronghold of Islamic State group terrorists, who made Raqqa the capital of their self-proclaimed caliphate. The city went through three years of hell, suffering atrocities, public hangings and slave auctions, before being bombed and then liberated in 2017 by an international US-led coalition. Since then, the ”Pearl of the Euphrates” has struggled to get back on track. Welcome to Rebuilding Raqqa ‘Pearl of the Euphrates’
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April 22, 2024, New York, New York, USA: Protester holds a sign that says ‘THE EMPEROR HAS NO DOUGH’, as pedestrians walk past anti-Trump protesters with the activist group Rise & Resist chanting and holding signs outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse while opening statements are expected in the courtroom at the Trump hush money trial. The case charges that the former President orchestrated a cover-up of payments to the adult film actress known as S. Daniels as a means to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The courthouse is surrounded by massive amounts of media and police. (Credit Image: © Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire)

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April 22, 2024, New York, New York, USA: Students at NYU began a Gaza solidarity encampment this morning on Gould Plaza in the Washington Square campus. Tents sit on the plaza. Students stand with Columbia University students’ ongoing encampment and join colleges and universities across the country staging encampments for Gaza. Student protesters demand that the university divests from profiteering from the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, that NYU shut down its Tel Aviv campus, remove NYPD from the NY campus, and protect the right to pro-Palestinian speech by students and faculty. (Credit Image: © Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire)

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April 22, 2024, Kazipur, Sirajganj, Bangladesh: Driver carries paddy straw in small trucks and unloads in Kazipur Upazila. Paddy straw is a by-product for the farmers so they usually sell it for $7 per 100kg to wholesalers. The straw is then sold by the wholesalers for between $8 – $10. Farmers use hay as food and bedding for their livestock. In addition to this, straw is used for various other purposes including house canopies and a form of biofuel. (Credit Image: © Syed Mahabubul Kader/ZUMA Press Wire)

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January 12, 2023, Hong Kong, China: Young women fully dressed in Chinese Ancient Costumes and face masks to protect themselves from virus walk about inside the compound of Wong Tai Shing Taoist Temple in Hong Kong as the City prepares for the coming Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)

April 18, 2022, HONG KONG, CHINA: Thousands of Hong Kong citizens flock to the narrow strip of a street market in the old commercial centre in Mong Kok on Easter Monday as Covid-19 Omicron Variant Outbreak see a sign of gradual dissipation. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)

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March 22, 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: Homeless IRLA (L), 35, and her 62 year-old companion are surrounded by belongings on the street, during the newly imposed 35-hour curfew, amid the Russian invasion. They say they have nowhere to go except running to shelters in the event of air raid sirens. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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May 19, 2023, New York, NY, USA: Traffic backs up on Tenth Avenue in New York approaching the Lincoln Tunnel, the week prior to the Memorial Day weekend. (Credit Image: © Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts via ZUMA Press)

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April 17, 2024, New York, New York, USA: As Columbia University prepares for commencement, students have set up an encampment of nearly 60 tents to demand that the institution divest from Israel. (Credit Image: © Laura Brett/ZUMA Press Wire)

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