July 26 — Worshippers pray in Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, during the first Muslim prayers since the controversial reconversion of the iconic Istanbul cathedral into a mosque. The Council of State, the highest administrative court unanimously cancelled a 1934 decision by modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to turn it into a museum, saying it was registered as a mosque in its property deeds.
July 26 — Palestinian women wearing protective masks amid the Covid-19 pandemic pose in their traditional attire during an event to celebrate the Palestinian Traditional Dress Day and protest Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, in the village of Al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley region...
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