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Lam Yik Fei A man clutches a furled umbrella as he spreads his arms in a plea for mercy, facing down the barrel of a pistol drawn by a Hong Kong police officer at Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong in August 2019

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Mahmud Hams Young relatives of 28-year-old Alaa Hamdan, who was killed by Israeli fire during clashes along the Gaza border, mourn during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip

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Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Palestinians break their fast by eating iftar meals during the holy month of Ramadan, near the rubble of a building recently destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City

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Valerio Bispuri Prisoners: since 2014 Bispuri has visited 18 prisons in Italy for his project

Prisoners: overcrowding, unemployment, and the insufficient number of educators, cultural mediators and uniformed staff are problems within the Italian penitentiary system

Prisoners: in Italy there are 190 penitentiaries, five of which are women’s prisons and 52 contain women’s wards

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Lam Yik Fei Hong Kong protests: Protesters clash with riot police at Kowloon Bay in August

Hong Kong protests: Officers pin a protester to the ground in clashes near government offices in September

Hong Kong protests: Protesters clash with riot police at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Sha Tin in November

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Alain Schroeder Saving Orangutans: Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) staff help prepare three-month-old orangutan Brenda for surgery at the SOCP quarantine centre in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. She had been confiscated from a villager who was keeping her as a pet

Saving Orangutans: Mother-substitutes carry orphaned orangutans to a forest school where they will teach them to climb trees at SOCP quarantine centre

Saving Orangutans: Asha, a 20-year-old female orangutan, is transported under sedation from her enclosure to a medical check in Sibolangit. She was rescued in 2017 in critical condition after being beaten, and had a broken right hand, fractured hip and gangrene of the left hand that left her thumb non-functional

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Jakub Porzycki Athletes from the gymnastics section of TS Wisła Kraków during training

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Richard Heathcote Anthony Joshua punches Andy Ruiz Jr during the world heavyweight title fight at Matchroom Boxing in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia

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Andrea Staccioli Brandon Loschiavo of United States competes in the 2019 Gwangju diving world championships

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Adam Pretty Amy Dunlop of Australia reaches for a small crimper while climbing The Dentist 5.12b at sunrise in Yangshuo near Guilin, China

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Adam Pretty Hitomi Onishi of Japan in action during sprint and long jump training at Konosu athletics stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

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Franck Fife Competitors ride during stage four of the 14th edition of Titan desert mountain biking race between Merzouga and M’ssici, in Morocco