Regional winners introduced within the 2024 World Press Picture Contest: pictures

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NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA – SINGLES winner – Title: A Day within the Lifetime of a Quebec Hearth Crew: Theo Dagnaud scans the horizon to make sure that firefighter patrols have left, and he can mark the realm as “managed”. Quebec, Canada, July 13. 2023.
© Charles-Frédérick Ouellet, for The Globe and Mail, CALQ

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NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA – LONG-TERM PROJECTS winner – Title: The Two Partitions: Migrants use a do-it-yourself ladder to climb a piece of the border wall with the assistance of a smuggler. Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, April 1. 2021.
© Alejandro Cegarra, The New York Occasions/Bloomberg

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EUROPE – SINGLES winner – Title: A Father’s Ache: Mesut Hançer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, killed whereas asleep when her grandmother’s dwelling collapsed throughout an earthquake in southern Turkey. Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, February 7. 2023.
© Adem Altan, Agence France-Presse

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EUROPE – LONG-TERM PROJECTS winner – Title: No Man’s Land: Demonstrators evade a police blockade, then climb again onto the highway to succeed in the railroad observe alongside which coal travels from the Hambach open pit mine to a few energy vegetation. Three native mines produce 100 million tons of coal yearly. Bedburg, Germany, August 26. 2017.
© Daniel Chatard

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AFRICA – SINGLES winner – Title: Returning House from Struggle: Kibrom Berhane (24) greets his mom for the primary time since he joined the Tigray Protection Forces, two years earlier. Saesie Tsada, Ethiopia, September 21. 2023.
© Vincent Haiges, Actual 21

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AFRICA – STORIES winner – Title: Valim-babena: Dada Paul and his granddaughter Odliatemix prepare for church. He has lived with dementia for 11 years. For a lot of that point his household assumed he had “gone mad” or attributed the signs to alcohol consumption. Solely his daughter Fara observed one thing completely different and continued caring for him. Antananarivo, Madagascar, March 12. 2023.
© Lee-Ann Olwage, for GEO

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ASIA – SINGLES winner – Title: A Palestinian Girl Embraces the Physique of Her Niece: Inas Abu Maamar (36) cradles the physique of her niece Saly (5) who was killed, together with 4 different relations, when an Israeli missile struck their dwelling. Khan Younis, Gaza, October 17. 2023.
© Mohammed Salem, Reuters

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ASIA – STORIES winner – Title: Afghanistan on the Edge: An Afghan girl rests within the desert, close to a camp housing folks just lately deported from Pakistan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Torkham, Afghanistan, November 17. 2023.
© Ebrahim Noroozi, Related Press

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SOUTH AMERICA – SINGLES winner – Title: Drought within the Amazon: A fisherman walks throughout the dry mattress of a department of the Amazon River, close to the Porto Praia Indigenous neighborhood. Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil, October 13. 2023.
© Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo

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SOUTH AMERICA – STORIES winner – Title: Purple Skies, Inexperienced Waters: Neighbors play Animal Lotto below a sky lit by one of many world’s largest fuel flares. Punta de Mata, Venezuela, November 5. 2022.
© Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, for The New York Occasions

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SOUTH AMERICA – HONORABLE MENTION winner – Title: Riot: Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Presidential Palace, in Brasília, Brazil, on January 8. 2023.
© Gabriela Biló, for Folha de São Paulo

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SOUTHEAST ASIA AND OCEANIA – SINGLES winner – Title: Preventing, Not Sinking: Lotomau Fiafia (72), a neighborhood elder, stands along with his grandson John on the level the place he remembers the shoreline was once when he was a boy. Salia Bay, Kioa Island, Fiji, August 8. 2023.
© Eddie Jim, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald

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SOUTHEAST ASIA AND OCEANIA – LONG-TERM PROJECTS winner – Title: Revolution in Myanmar: Anti-coup protesters handed flowers to riot police saying, “You’re the folks’s police”. Yangon, Myanmar, February 6. 2021.
© Ta Mwe, Sacca Picture, VII Basis, Frontline Membership, W. Eugene Smith Grant

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SOUTHEAST ASIA AND OCEANIA – HONORABLE MENTION – Title: Air pollution within the Cileungsi River: A resident catches fish at a once-scenic waterfall on the Cileungsi River. The thick foam on the water is basically a product of waste runoff from close by industries. Curug Parigi, Indonesia, August 27. 2023.
© Arie Basuki

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JURY SPECIAL MENTIONS – Title: Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza: A resident of al-Zahra walks by means of the rubble of houses destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. The strikes hit round 25 residence blocks within the college and residential neighborhood. On the time of writing (4 March 2024), Israel’s assaults on the occupied Palestinian territories through the Israel-Hamas warfare had killed some 30,000 folks and injured greater than 70,000. Gaza Metropolis, Gaza, October 19. 2023.
© Mustafa Hassouna, Anadolu Photos