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Poor hit harder by economic crisis

A staff member wearing a face mask works at a food store behind makeshift fences, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 2, 2022. REUTERS A protester launches orange smoke during a student protest outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Students are protesting on the day Chilean President Gabriel Boric gives his first annual address as president, while continuing to demand free, non-sexist education as well as fair transportation prices, more food vouchers and the cancelation of student debt. AP A youth carries home a bucket of cooked oatmeal in the Ticlio Chico area where residents pool their money to cook and serve food on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Twenty-five percent of Peruvians live in poverty, according to Peru's statistics institute INEI, amid rising global inflation. AP Water vendors fill water tanks, each tank linked to a home, in the Ticlio Chico area on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. AP C

Jun 9, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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People in North Korea trapped in famine and pandemic

Members of the North Korean army supply medicines to residents at a pharmacy, amid growing fears over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo on May 18, 2022. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) wearing a face mask while inspecting a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea, 15 May 2022 (issued 16 May 2022). On 15 May, Kim held an emergency consultative meeting of the political bureau of the Workers' Party at the headquarters of the party's Central Committee in Pyongyang. In the meeting, Kim ordered the mobilization of soldiers to stabilize the supply of medicine in the capital.  EPA/KCNA    A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean soldiers gathering to pledge to complete their mission to supply medicine to pharmacies amid the nation's anti-epidemic campaign; at the Ministry of National Defense in Pyongyang, North Korea, 16 May 2022 (i

May 19, 2022By Choi Won-suk

People in North Korea trapped in famine and pandemic

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2022 Pulitzer Prize: Bearing witness to history

This photo by Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, provided by Columbia University, shows a military transport plane flying over relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family, as they gather around an incinerated vehicle destroyed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. Yam was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for work related to the fall of Kabul, in New York, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via AP) Taliban fighters pray next to young Afghans outside a local mosque for evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. In its nearly two-decade fight with the U.S., the Taliban worked at every turn to undermine the Afghan government, deriding its leaders as corrupt stooges whose forces could never protect citizens from the group's ferocious attacks. But the Taliban is now in charge, and with power comes a daunting challenge: convincing Afghans - many of them with bitter memories of the last time the fundamentalist group ran the country - that it can govern and police as well as it can fig

May 12, 2022By Choi Won-suk

2022 Pulitzer Prize: Bearing witness to history

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Worsening drought puts millions at risk

Fish trapped as the water disappeared rot and dry in the sun in the middle of the dried up patch of what used to be a boat access ramp to the waters of Lake Mead, near Boulder, Nevada, USA, 06 May 2022. Water levels in Lake Mead continue to drop as the region faces severe drought.  EPA A rusted metal barrel, near the location of where a different barrel was found containing  a human body, sits exposed on shore during low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP People ride on a boat during low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP Visitors launch boats from a ramp extended multiple times as a result of worsening low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP Wooden pallets mark the location of where a barrel was found containing a human body,  during low water levels due to the western

May 11, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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Our children deserve the best (1)

A child refugee fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine with her family grimaces as she sits in a bus after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing, in Romania, Friday, March 25, 2022. AP Children lift part of a large Ukrainian flag during a protest against Russia's war in Ukraine, in front of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 16, 2022. AP People with children wait after arriving from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. AP Children wait in a car after arriving from Mariupol to the evacuation point in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, 02 May 2022. EPA A girl collects water with a bottle in the Shabelle river in the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 8, 2022. AP Children fill water tanks in a private pump near the Shabelle river in the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. AFP A woman holds a malnourished child at the nutrition unit of the Kelafo Health Center in the town of Kelafo, 120 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on Apr

May 6, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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End of mask mandates

A woman wearing a face mask opens the window which reflects lanterns displayed for upcoming Buddha's birthday celebration slated for May 8, at Jogyesa temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. AP Girls wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus perform during traditional Easter Sunday rites in Quezon City, Philippines on April 17, 2022. AP A boy wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus removes the black veil of "Mother Mary" during traditional Easter Sunday rites in Quezon City, Philippines on April 17, 2022. AP Christians wearing face masks attend an Easter service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 17, 2022. The church allowed 70 percent members of the capacity to attend the Easter service as a part of the measures to prevent against the coronavirus. AP A child wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus sits on a swing outside a mall, Sunday, April 17, 2022, in Beijing. AP A child wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus bicycle moves past a b

Apr 29, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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Ramadan returns

People pray while waiting for braking fasting time at Oman Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 13 April 2022. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in the Koran was during its last 10 nights. EPA  A Muslim devotee prays during the holy month of Ramadan at the Shah-i-Hamdan shrine in Srinagar on April 13, 2022. AFP  A Muslim devotee prays during the holy month of Ramadan at the Shah-i-Hamdan shrine in Srinagar on April 13, 2022. AFP A Muslim reads the Quran at the Jamia mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, April 13, 2022. AP A Muslim reads the Quran at the Jamia mosque, during the of holy month of Ramadan in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, April 13, 2022. AP Kashmiri men pray inside the shrine of Sufi saint Shiekh Abdul Qadir Jeelani o

Apr 19, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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North Korea celebrates 'Day of the Sun'

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends a parade to celebrate the 110th birth anniversary of its late founder Kim Il Sung, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday, April 15, 2022. AP A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows a national meeting and a public procession of Pyongyang citizens marking the 110th birth anniversary of the country's late founder, Kim Il Sung, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, 15 April 2022 (issued 16 April 2022).  EPA In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves from balcony as he attends a parade to celebrate the 110th birth anniversary of its late founder Kim Il Sung, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday, April 15, 2022. AP People pay tribute to the statues of late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the celebration of 110th birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, April 1

Apr 18, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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War is never the answer

A woman looks on as she sits on a bench outside a destroyed building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv on april 2, 2022, as Ukraine said today Russian forces were making a "rapid retreat" from northern areas around the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. AFP A refugee walks covered by a space blanket for heating after fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Saturday, April 2, 2022. AP The letter V, the Russian forces emblem, is seen on a blown Russian tank turret in the village of Dmytrivka close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Apr. 2, 2022. AP A man drives a car past the rubble of a destroyed building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv on april 2, 2022, as Ukraine said today Russian forces were making a "rapid retreat" from northern areas around the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. AFP Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what

Apr 7, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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Earth is suffering (Part 3)

Amitai Beh, 6, watches the NCAR Fire through binoculars on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December, 2021. AFP A man watches as the NCAR Fire burns on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. AFP An air tanker drops slurry on the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. AFP A tree goes up in flames as the NCAR Fire burns on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. AFP Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. AFP In this file photo taken on March 26, 2022: An air tanker drops slurry on the NCAR Fire in Boulder, Colorado. AFP The setting sun is seen through smoke rising from fire at the Ghazipur garbage dump in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 28, 2022. A massive fire broke out at the dumping yard of east Delhi's Ghazipur area on Monday leading to a huge cloud of smoke enveloping the region and neighboring areas. AP Workers watch as a massive fir

Mar 31, 2022By Choi Won-suk

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Poor hit harder by economic crisis

People in North Korea trapped in famine and pandemic

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Worsening drought puts millions at risk

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End of mask mandates

Ramadan returns

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War is never the answer

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