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Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather around the Imam Hussein Shrine, Prophet Mohammed's grandson, in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala, as they mark the Arbaeen religious festival commemorating the seventh century killing of the Imam. IMAGES
Thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims take part in a mourning ceremony at the Shrine of Imam Hussein, Prophet Mohammed's grandson, in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala, as they mark the Arbaeen religious festival commemorating the seventh century killing of the Imam. IMAGES
Shiite Muslim pilgrims march with flags en route to the holy city of Karbala from Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, ahead of the holiday of Arbaeen. Each year, pilgrims converge in large numbers to the Iraqi shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala ahead of Arbaeen, which marks the 40th day after Ashura. IMAGES
Desmond Tutu -- South Africa's anti-apartheid icon, Nobel peace prize laureate and a man dubbed the "moral compass of the nation" -- attends a special thanksgiving service at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, where he was appointed South Africa's first black Anglican archbishop, to mark his 90th birthday. IMAGES
A few thousand Muslim worshipers gather in the Grand Mosque in the Malian capital Bamako after the country's High Islamic Council called for a protest against France over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. IMAGES
Dozens of people protest outside the French embassy in Baghdad after a radical pro-Iran faction called on Iraqis to slam French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial defence of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. IMAGES