Modern Ukrainian contrasts. Some save a camel, others repair equipment… pic.twitter.com/iAKkiYLO5Y

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 In the video, released by one of the Ukrainian army units, Ukrainian army fighters can be seen standing next to a damaged M-113 APC that was hit and working to repair it. A few seconds after the video starts, a white pickup truck arrives from the front, carrying several more fighters, with a two-humped camel walking behind it, tied with a rope.

The unit that posted the video explained the camel was taken from a Russian position captured in a Ukrainian attack and that the animal, which is not found in the plains of eastern Ukraine, was wandering confused near the position. Russian army forces are known to use animals for transport or mobility purposes for fighters, as their units struggle increasingly with shortages of motorized vehicles damaged by Ukrainian fire. In the past, videos were released of Russian soldiers using horses, mules, and donkeys to move around the combat zone, which is full of mines and subject to constant threat from Ukrainian drones.

Bactrian camel somewhere in Russia or eastern Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/trbcEZVqDz

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 The two-humped camel, or Bactrian camel by its scientific name, is a beast of burden domesticated in the deserts of Central Asia, and its thick fur provides protection not only from the heavy heat prevailing in the deserts during summer months but also from the cold and snows of winter. These camels can easily withstand the harsh Ukrainian winter and can carry a large amount of equipment.

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A 31-year-old Canadian woman visiting Israel was bitten by a camel in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The tourist was taken to the nearby Hadassah Medical Center – Mount Scopus, where she was treated for minor wounds in her extremities.

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The camel was apparently part of a local attraction in which tourists can get to ride the mammal.

A medic treating her said that witnesses recalled the incident took place while she was walking with a group of tourists on the site, which overlooks Temple Mount and is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries.

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Saudi authorities have conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant.

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Saudi Arabia's popular King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for some $66 million in prize money. Botox injections, facelifts, and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited. Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camels' heads, necks, humps, dress, and postures.

Judges at the monthlong festival in the desert northeast of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, are escalating their clampdown on artificially enhanced camels, the official news agency reported, using "specialized and advanced" technology to detect tampering.

This year, authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the beasts' muscles, injected camels' heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands, and used fillers to relax their faces.

"The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels," the SPA report said, adding organizers would "impose strict penalties on manipulators."

The camel beauty contest is at the heart of the massive carnival, which also features camel races, sales, and other festivities typically showcasing thousands of dromedaries. The extravaganza seeks to preserve the camel's role in the kingdom's Bedouin tradition and heritage, even as the oil-rich country plows ahead with modernizing mega-projects.

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Roshan the camel is on an important mission.

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He purposely plods through the arid desert terrain of Pakistan's Balochistan, his broad feet sinking into the hot sand at every step. His destination is a village where dozens of children, all wearing their Sunday best, await him and his cargo of books.

"The camel is here!! The camel is here!" the delighted children chant as they surround Roshan, the camel library.

In March 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country, Pakistan closed its schools, sending over 50 million school and university-going students home, to the dismay of tens of thousands of parents and people connected with the education system.

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Raheema Jalal, principal of Zubeda Jalal Girls High School (ZJGHS), who founded the Camel Library project with her sister, a federal minister, says she started the library last August because she wanted children around her remote hometown to continue learning despite schools being closed.

The project collaborates with the Female Education Trust (FET) and Alif Laila Book Bus Society (ALBBS), two NGOs who has been running children's library projects in the country for 36 years.

Roshan carries the books to four different villages in the district of Kach, making the journey on alternate week days. The library is open for two to three hours, from around 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and children choose the books they like and return them when the library comes again.

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"I like picture books, because when I look at the pictures and the photographs, I can understand the story better," nine-year-old Ambareen Imran said.

The village schools have reopened, but local officials say they have received many more requests for the library to continue in spite of the resumption.

Jala hopes to continue and expand the project to cover more villages and is looking into funding. As of now almost the entire budget of Rs 18,000 ($117.50) goes to the employment of Roshan.

Murad Ali, the owner of Roshan, says he was taken aback when he was first contacted about the project, but thought that camels were the most sensible mode of transport in the remote and rugged area where village streets are too narrow for vehicles. He enjoys the trips, seeing the happy children and on top of that, he still earns just as much as when he used to carry firewood.

Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province by area is an arid desert and mountainous region in the southwest of Pakistan constituting 44% of Pakistan's total land mass and a population of 12.34 million. It is Pakistan's most impoverished province, with a 40% literacy rate – the lowest in the country. Around 62% of children between the ages of five and 16 in Balochistan are out of school in rural areas of the backward province.

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