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The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Lebanese diva Fairuz (Fayrouz) hologram during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Fans watch the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

A portrait of Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum is seen during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor on November 30, 2021, ahead of the group A football match between Qatar and Bahrain. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
The Arab Cup opening was held on Tuesday at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Performers carry a palanquin during the official ceremony opening the "Rams Road" (Sphinx dromos) near the Temple of Luxor (built around 1400 BC) in Egypt's southern city of the same name on November 25, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Named "The Path of God" in Ancient Egyptian mythology, its ram statues -- an embodiment of the ancient Egyptian deity Amun -- were buried for centuries under the sand before being revived and restored for display in recent years. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Egypt on November 25 unveiled in a grandiose night-time ceremony the "Rams Road" (Tareeq al-Kebbash in Arabic), a 2700-metre-long sandstone-paved path lined with ram-headed statues and sphinxes dating over 3000-years-old connecting the Luxor Temple with the Karnak Temple. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Visitors walk about at night at the Temple of Luxor (built around 1400 BC) in Egypt's southern city of the same name on November 25, 2021, after the official ceremony opening the "Rams Road" (Sphinx dromos). (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Performers stand holding torches during the official ceremony opening the "Rams Road" (Sphinx dromos) outside the Temple of Luxor (built around 1400 BC) in Egypt's southern city of the same name on November 25, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) speaks with children as they stand between the human-headed sphinxes at a section along the 2700-metre-long "Rams Road" (Sphinx dromos), leading from the Temple of Luxor (built around 1400 BC) to the Karnak Temple further north, in Egypt's southern city of the same name on November 25, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Named "The Path of God" in Ancient Egyptian mythology, its ram statues -- an embodiment of the ancient Egyptian deity Amun -- were buried for centuries under the sand before being revived and restored for display in recent years. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Egypt on November 25 unveiled in a grandiose night-time ceremony the "Rams Road" (Tareeq al-Kebbash in Arabic), a 2700-metre-long sandstone-paved path lined with ram-headed statues and sphinxes dating over 3000-years-old connecting the Luxor Temple with the Karnak Temple. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'

Fireworks light the sky during the official ceremony opening the "Rams Road" (Sphinx dromos) outside the pylon and remaining obelisk at the entrance of the Temple of Luxor (built around 1400 BC) in Egypt's southern city of the same name on November 25, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Egypt's Pharaonic ‘Rams Road'
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

Syrian 12-year-old Amer al-Shayban stands by a smokestack as he works at a makeshift oil refinery near the Turkish-controlled northern city of al-Bab, on November 20, 2021. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

Syrian boys transport coal as they work at a makeshift oil refinery near the Turkish-controlled northern city of al-Bab, on November 20, 2021. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

As it marked World Children's Day on November 20, the agency estimated that nine in ten children live in poverty and more than 5,700 children – some as young as seven – were recruited into the fighting. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

A displaced young Syrian boy works at a makeshift oil refinery near the village of Tarhin in an area under the control of Turkish-backed factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on February 25, 2021. AFP / Bakr ALKASEM

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

A displaced Syrian boy holds a bottle of oil at a makeshift refinery near Tarhin village in areas under the control of Turkish-backed factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on February 25, 2021. Amateur refineries that have sprung up in Syria are causing health and pollution problems in the region. / AFP / Bakr ALKASEM

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

A displaced young Syrian boy works at a makeshift oil refinery near the village of Tarhin in an area under the control of Turkish-backed factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on February 25, 2021. Amateur refineries that have sprung up in Syria are causing health and pollution problems in the region. / AFP / Bakr ALKASEM

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

Displaced young Syrian boys work at a makeshift oil refinery near the village of Tarhin in an area under the control of Turkish-backed factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on February 25, 2021. Amateur refineries that have sprung up in Syria are causing health and pollution problems in the region. / AFP / Bakr ALKASEM

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

A displaced Syrian boy is pictured at a makeshift oil refinery near the village of Tarhin in an area under the control of Turkish-backed factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on February 25, 2021. Amateur refineries that have sprung up in Syria are causing health and pollution problems in the region. / AFP / Bakr ALKASEM

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria

A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey, on November 15, 2021. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Oil Refinery's Child Workers in Syria
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

A member of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela plays in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

A members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela raises his violin during a performance to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas, on November 13, 2021. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Venezuelan musicians form the world's largest orchestra
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles (l), the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla (R), Duchess of Cornwall, visit the ancient Roman Decapolis city of Gadara on November 17, 2021, Umm Qais, about 110 kilometres north of the Jordanian capital Amman. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles (C), the Prince of Wales, visits the ancient Roman Decapolis city of Gadara on November 17, 2021, Umm Qais, about 110 kilometres north of the Jordanian capital Amman. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles (R), the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visit the baptism site of al-Maghtas, where Jesus is believed by Christians to have been baptised by John the Baptist, on the Jordan river on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles (C), the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla (C-R), Duchess of Cornwall, visit the baptism site of al-Maghtas, where Jesus is believed by Christians to have been baptised by John the Baptist, on the Jordan river on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, rides in a vehicle as she departs from Queen Alia International Airport serving Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (R) capital Amman on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles (C), the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla (C-L), Duchess of Cornwall, are escorted by Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (C-R) upon disembarking their Royal Air Force Airbus KC2 Voyager aircraft at Queen Alia International Airport serving Jordan's capital Amman on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, attend a centenary celebration of the founding of the Jordanian state, at the Jordan Museum, in the capital Amman, on November 17, 2021. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

Britain's Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla (L), Duchess of Cornwall, visit the ancient Roman Decapolis city of Gadara on November 17, 2021, Umm Qais, about 110 kilometres north of the Jordanian capital Amman. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt
Prince Charles Makes 4-day Visit to Jordan, Egypt

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