Around the world -- Photos

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Flames from a wreckage of a passenger plane are seen after crash Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 15, 2008. 40 people were killed, most of them were on the ground in the marketplace where the plane crashed​

 

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Dying Soldier Hangs to Priest


Puerto Cabello naval base, Venezuela, 4 June 1962. A soldier who has been mortally wounded by a sniper clings onto navy chaplain Luis Padillo. About the image Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture.
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The Power of One

Lone Woman defying Israeli security forces .. Settler woman struggling with Israeli security officers at Amona outpost in the West Bank February 1, 2006.
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Invasion: Comoran and Tanzanian AU soldiers arrest a man suspected of collaborating with renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar​

 

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A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South Sudan's independence from Sudan.

Huyu wa Ukweli...Mwanaume rangi...no usharobalo....Ukikutana nae tu unajisalimisha..

 

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People from a religious organization called the People's temple mass suicided by taking a killer-drug. 918 men, woman and children died

 

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Jamphel Yeshi sets himself on fire during a protest against the forthcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India

Tibetan protester who burned himself alive left letter calling for freedom
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The Agony Of Omayra

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Omayra Sanchez was a young Colombian girl who died during the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which destroyed the town of Armero in November 1985.

Omayra was stuck for nearly three days in the mud and water, surrounded by corpses and debris. She was 13 years old. Rescuers were unable to release her with the equipment they had available and she eventually died from gangrene and hypothermia. During her struggle to survive, her courage was astounding, and according to aid workers and journalists who were with her throughout her ordeal, she was thinking about returning to school and passing exams.

Photographer Frank Fournier captured this image of Omayra shortly before she died and when it was published, it attracted great controversy. The Colombian government was roundly condemned for their poor response to the disaster, particularly as the eruption had been predicted, and Frank Fournier himself was criticised by many for taking such a photograph of a dying child.
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omayra_Sánchez​

 

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Dah hili ni collection la nguvu sana aisee
Safi sana FirstLady1

 

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asante sana ndaga fijo

 

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Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011

 

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A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.

 

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"Wait For Me Daddy," by Claude P. Dettloff, October 1, 1940: A line of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother's hand to reach out for his father

 

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A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.

 

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A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

 

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Robert Peraza pauses at his son's name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.

 

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"La Jeune Fille a la Fleur," a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower powermovement.

 

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A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.

 

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PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.