Families return to shattered towns as fragile ceasefire holds in Lebanon
Southern Lebanon’s displaced face dire conditions as they return to salvaged belongings amid ceasefire uncertainties.
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A worker wearing an RGB camera on her head, recording actions through motion capture while arranging coloured blocks at AI data company Objectways' office in Tamil Nadu's Karur district, India. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
Workers wearing cameras on their heads inside a factory in Tamil Nadu's Karur district. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
A worker wearing a camera on his head while folding towels inside a model bathroom at AI data company Objectways' office in Karur. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
Developers think feeding first-person footage, called "egocentric data", into specialised AI models will help robots copy humans. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
Some AI trainers work at home, others in factories or specialised studios, using video glasses, head-mounted cameras and motion sensors. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
India has positioned itself as a global middleman for the creation, processing and annotation of AI data. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
Workers wear cameras on their heads at a factory in Tamil Nadu. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
A worker stands next to a robot at Objectways' office. [R Satish Babu/AFP]
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Anti-immigrant protesters clash with police at Antrim Road in Belfast. [Isabel Infantes/Reuters]
Riot police watch protesters near Newtownabbey, in Belfast. [Peter Morrison/AP Photo]
Police stand guard during protests near a hotel north of Belfast. [Charles McQuillan/Getty Images]
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Jon Boutcher says an additional 200 officers were on the streets on Wednesday. [Henry Nicholls/AFP]
Politicians from all sides in Northern Ireland’s government have condemned the violence. [Isabel Infantes/Reuters]
Police attempt to clear protesters near Newtownabbey in Belfast. [Peter Morrison/AP Photo]
Police block a road to stop anti-immigrant protesters. [Isabel Infantes/Reuters]
Protesters set fire to a barricade as police block Belfast's Antrim Road. [PA Images via Getty Images]
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Protesters set vehicles on fire on Lendrick Street in Belfast. [PA Images via Getty Images]
Protesters take to the streets in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [Charles McQuillan/Getty Images]
A building is set alight in the Sandy Row area of Belfast city centre. [Paul Faith/AFP]
Police vehicles come under attack from protesters. [Peter Morrison/AP Photo]
A Glider bus set on fire by protesters on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast. [PA Images via Getty]
A man is guided to safety by an officer after being rescued from houses which were set on fire in Lendrick Street in east Belfast. [PA Images via Getty]
Vehicles burn on McMaster Street in east Belfast. [PA Images via Getty]
![The skeleton of a Glider bus, set fire by protesters, on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organised in response to Monday night's stabbing attack in the city. A 30 year-old man arrested in connection with the Belfast stabbing attack has been charged with attempted murder and will appear in court in the city on Wednesday, the Police Service of Northern Ireland has said. Picture date: Tuesday June 9, 2026. [PA Images via Getty Images]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2280176748-1781077505.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
Northern Ireland’s political leaders and the chief constable have urged people not to incite hate and fear or target particular communities. [PA Images via Getty]
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A protester is arrested by anti-riot police during a demonstration against a proposed Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, Kenya [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
People confront Kenyan police during protests against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine centre in Nanyuki. [Luis Tato/AFP]
Protesters carry a mock coffin as they march in Nanyuki. [Luis Tato/AFP]
A Kenyan police officer fires tear gas during clashes with protesters. [Luis Tato/AFP]
Kenya has never recorded a case of Ebola and many oppose the idea of bringing potential carriers of the disease into the country. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Police officers take cover during protests in Nanyuki. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
People gesture near the body of a person killed during protests against the proposed US Ebola quarantine centre. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
Police officers detain a protester. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Protesters arrested by anti-riot police during in Nanyuki. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
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US President Donald Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. [Ross D Franklin/AP Photo]
People watch as President Donald Trump’s motorcade passes on its way to Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York, US. [Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]
Fans arrive for the NBA Finals Game 3 between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]
Secret Service agents stand guard outside Madison Square Garden before the game. [Ryan Murphy/AP Photo]
New Yorkers line the street as Trump’s motorcade heads to Madison Square Garden. [Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]
Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA Finals with granddaughter Kai Trump. [Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]
New York Knicks fans cheer at a watch party during the game. [Ryan Murphy/AP Photo]
Filmmaker Spike Lee, left, and comedian Dave Chappelle arrive for the game. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]
Timothee Chalamet, right, and Ben Stiller cheer. [Ross D Franklin/AP Photo]
San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle (#5) tries to get a shot off against the New York Knicks. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]
Former NBA player Jeremy Lin, left, and filmmaker Spike Lee pose for a photo before the game. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]
Action during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. [Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]
Fans block Eighth Avenue outside Madison Square Garden. [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]
New York police officers move in to disperse fans on Eighth Avenue. [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]
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Rescue workers conduct an operation at a collapsed building in General Santos City, the Philippines [Ferdinandh Cabrera/AFP]
Collapsed buildings in General Santos City. [Handout via Reuters]
The quake on Monday is the strongest to hit the Philippines this year. [Ferdinandh Cabrera/AFP]
People on motorcycles pass by a collapsed building in General Santos. [AP Photo]
Several low-rise buildings collapsed or sustained heavy damage. [Emil Elbert P. Prudente/EPA]
The epicentre of the earthquake was offshore near Mindanao, the second most populous island in the Philippine archipelago. [Emil Elbert P. Prudente/EPA]
A dog is seen outside a collapsed Jollibee fast food restaurant next to a church in General Santos City. [Daniel Ceng/Anadolu]
People injured in the earthquake receive medical treatment at a hospital in General Santos. [Daniel Ceng/Anadolu]
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Pope Leo XIV arrives in the popemobile at Plaza de Cibeles for a Holy Mass and Corpus Christi procession in Madrid, Spain [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV arrives to preside over Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Waiting for Pope Leo at Plaza de Cibeles. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday and urged its people to put an end to polarisation and to work for unity. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Mass was held on the Catholic Corpus Domini feast day. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
For Sunday’s Mass and procession, local organisers said 1.2 million people turned out with more trying to get in. [Manu Fernandez/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV presides over Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV takes part in a procession at Plaza de Cibeles. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
Pope Leo holds Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Manu Fernandez/AP Photo]
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Smoke rises over Tehran after an explosion, Iran, February 28, 2026. [AP Photo]
This screengrab from a handout video shows a missile being launched from a US Navy ship in support of Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026. [Handout/US Central Command via AP]
Firefighters work to extinguish flames in a building after a direct hit by an Iranian missile in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 28, 2026. [Tomer Neuberg/AP Photo]
A black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse in the industrial area of Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates following reported Iranian strikes in Dubai, UAE, March 1, 2026. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
Debris lies in a room of Gandhi Hospital, damaged when an Israeli-US strike hit a state TV communications tower and nearby buildings across the street during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, March 2, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Graves are prepared for victims during a mass funeral ceremony for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed on February 28, 2026, in what Iran has described as a US-Israeli attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, March 2, 2026. [Handout/Iranian Foreign Media Department via AP]
A Muslim leader leads volunteers in prayer next to a police facility hit during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, March 4, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Israeli tanks manoeuvre near the Israel-Lebanon border in northern Israel, March 4, 2026. [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]
A shepherd boy walks away from an unexploded projectile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, March 4, 2026. [Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
A giant poster of late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh is seen as workers inspect a building destroyed in an Israeli air raid in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, March 5, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli attack on an oil storage facility rises into the sky in Tehran, March 8, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
People inspect the site where Israeli air raids hit several houses in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village, southern Lebanon, March 8, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Flames rise after an Israeli air raid in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburb, March 9, 2026. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
Mourners attend a funeral procession for senior Iranian military officials and civilians killed during the US-Israeli military campaign, in Tehran, March 11, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
A woman sits amid rubble across from a residential building damaged during the US-Israeli air campaign in Tehran, March 12, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after an attack in southern Tehran, March 13, 2026. [Sajjad Safari/AP Photo]
Smoke and flames rise from an Israeli air attack on the Qasmiyeh Bridge near the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, March 22, 2026. [Mohammad Zaatari/AP Photo]
A journalist carries burned safety gear after an Israeli air raid on a car that killed Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib, Beirut-based Al Mayadeen TV reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, video journalist Mohammed Ftouni, in Jezzine, southern Lebanon, March 28, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Rescue workers and soldiers carry a victim’s body from the rubble of a residential building, a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, April 6, 2026. [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]
Rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, April 8, 2026. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Mourners attend a reception ceremony for the bodies of Lebanese state security forces members killed in Israeli strikes on Nabatieh, in Sidon, southern Lebanon, April 11, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
A demonstrator kisses a symbolic boot in tribute to a Lebanese fighter during a protest against direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, April 11, 2026. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
A man flashes a victory sign while carrying an Iranian flag in front of an anti-US billboard, with Farsi slogans reading “The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed” and “The entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground”, at Islamic Revolution Square in central Tehran, April 13, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Mohamed el-Junayd, 43, who says he survived the Israeli attack, sits beside piled-up damaged cars at the site of an April 8 attack on Corniche al-Mazraa in Beirut, April 13, 2026. [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]
Displaced woman Ghada Mohammed Fadel, who fled her home following an Israeli displacement order, holds her twin babies, Mohammed and Mehdi, inside a university-turned shelter in Sidon, southern Lebanon, April 13, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
A container ship sails through the Strait of Hormuz off Qeshm Island, southern Iran, April 18, 2026. [Asghar Besharati/AP Photo]
People sit at the site of an Israeli attack carried out just before a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel took effect, in the Abbassye area of Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 18, 2026. [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]
Girls gesture as if launching missiles while singing next to portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during a state-organised rally marking the birthday of Imam Reza and expressing support for the leadership, in Tehran, April 29, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Buildings lie in ruins in the historic Saray neighbourhood following an Israeli attack earlier this week, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, in Nabatieh, May 20, 2026. [Reuters]
Ali Salman, 12, injured in an Israeli air attack, lies on a bed at Jabal Amel hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, May 26, 2026. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Cars jam a highway as people flee Beirut’s southern suburbs after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered strikes on targets in the area, Lebanon, June 1, 2026. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Mourners carry the coffins of dentist James George Karam and his children, Theodosia and Tony, killed in an Israeli attack, during their funeral in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon, June 3, 2026. [Stringer/Reuters]
Kuwaiti officials inspect damage at a Kuwait international airport terminal after a drone and missile attack, in Kuwait City, June 3, 2026. [Handout/Kuwait News Agency via Reuters]
People walk under a banner bearing portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, in Tehran, June 6, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Mourners attend the funeral of four people, including a woman and a medic, killed in an Israeli attack the previous day in Zebdine, Haret Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 7, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]
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Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke (centre) shouts slogans during a protest over alleged irregularities in recent major examinations, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (Cockroach People’s Party, or CJP), a satirical social media movement in India, have gathered in New Delhi after weeks of grabbing news headlines. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
The party, a play on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has attracted millions of online followers and widespread support among young Indians. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
On Saturday, hundreds gathered in New Delhi’s protest zone near parliament, with some participants wearing cockroach masks. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Within a week of launching a website and social media accounts, CJP’s Instagram page soared and by Saturday had amassed more than 22.2 million followers, with the slogan: “A political front for the youth, by the youth, for the youth.” [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
For Saturday’s march, CJP organisers rallied supporters to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, after an exam irregularity controversy in May that quickly transformed into frustration over India’s education system and limited job opportunities. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
CJP supporters chanted slogans including: “Cockroaches are coming, Dharmendra Pradhan is going!” [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Organisers of the march encouraged participants to bring India’s national flag and a book, which they said symbolised the right to education and equal opportunity for all. They also urged demonstrators to remain peaceful and avoid any confrontations with police. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
The group’s rise echoes a similar trend across South Asia, where youth movements born out of social media have been crucial in antigovernment protests, particularly in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Some supporters of Modi’s party have dismissed the CJP as nothing more than a social media gimmick. They argue that the parody party’s social media success might not translate into political street mobilisation and that its rapid rise will likely be fleeting. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
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At least 21 people were killed when a fire ripped through a hotel in New Delhi on Wednesday, police said, in one of the deadliest blazes in the Indian capital in recent years. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Building fires are common in India due to a lack of firefighting equipment and routine disregard for safety regulations. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Several of those killed were visitors from African countries who had come to the city for medical treatment, The Indian Express daily reported. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
The blaze was eventually brought under control with the help of eight fire engines, police said. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Electrical short circuits, often caused by poorly maintained wiring, remain the leading cause of fire incidents in India. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
In March, a fire at a government-run hospital in eastern India killed at least 10 critically ill patients. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
An exhausted local catches his breath after helping firefighters to douse the fire. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
Firefighters rescue a foreign national. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
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