World's biggest mural made of street scraps in Damascus

DAMASCUS, Syria - A mother and her boy look at a decorated wall, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest mural made of recycled materials, in the civil war-ravaged Syrian capital of Damascus on May 15, 204.

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