Lebanon

Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles washed away by the water on the seaside of Ouzai, south of Beirut, on July 19th, 2018.

Voters mostly stayed home for the country's first elections in nearly a decade, and in the end, the same families remained in power.

Ahead of elections next week in Lebanon, it's looking like corruption as usual.

Lebanese Kurds take part in a protest near the European Commission offices in Beirut on January 28th, 2018, against the ongoing Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin.