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| - We are offering the following five Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week. + Questions linger among the corpses of an Ethiopian massacre + Virus forges path to new life for Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews + Karabakh rivals adjust to life along new borders + Uphill battle but Tehran aims to become bike-friendly + W. Sahara flare-up spells gloom for buffer zone businesses Ethiopia-Tigray-Sudan-refugee-conflict,FOCUS MAI-KADRA, Ethiopia Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the stench of death. 1,000 words by Robbie Corey-Boulet with Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali in Um Raquba refugee camp. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Israel-Judaism-social,FOCUS JERUSALEM For many, the pandemic has been a time of devastating isolation, but for some ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews it has pushed them to integrate in the world outside their narrow communities. 700 words by Michael Blum. File picture Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-Berdashen,SCENE BERDASHEN, Azerbaijan Pomegranate harvest is in full swing on the field Zhorik Grigoryan nearly lost before a ceasefire line between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces was drawn just 50 metres away from his land. 650 words by Emmanuel Peuchot. Picture. Video Iran-transport-cycling-environment,FOCUS TEHRAN One sunny day, Tehran's mayor and foreign diplomats rode bicycles through the Iranian capital to promote cycling -- no mean feat in a city of steep roads, heavy traffic and toxic fumes. 700 words by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video WSahara-conflict-Morocco,FOCUS GUERGEURAT, Western Sahara Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man's land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse. 600 words by Hicham Rafih. Picture. Video afp
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