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PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
The face of a bombing in Kabul
Wailing and surrounded by the dead, the image of Tarana Akbari distraught in a bloodstained dress symbolized the horror of Kabul's suicide bombing.
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PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
Remembering 1988 deadly chemical attack on Halabja
Some 5,000 people lose their lives when Iraq’s former Ba’athist regime dropped chemical bombs on Halabja.
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PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
Muhammad Ali’s victory over Cleveland Williams
It’s one of the most famous photos in sports history, an iconic image Illustrating Muhammad Ali walking away from a supine Cleveland Williams in 1966.
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PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
The leap into freedom
By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, the US, Britain and France attempted to divide the defeated states. In this partitioning Berlin city was also treated like those countries.
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PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
Story behind 9/11 ‘Falling Man’
This program is about one of the most historic pictures in the world, depicting a falling man from the World Trade Center in the wake of 9/11 attacks.
"Falling Man"
PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
Story behind Samuel Aranda's best photograph
This picture, taken by Samuel Aranda, won the World Press Photo award in 2012. It was shot in a field hospital inside a mosque in Sana’a.
Fatimah & Zaed
PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
Story behind “Hand of Hope” photo
This program is about a ground-breaking surgical operation on an unborn fetus in August 1999.
“Hand of Hope”
PICTURES THAT SHAKE THE WORLD8 YEARS AGO
How photojournalism killed Kevin Carter
When this photograph capturing the suffering of the Sudanese famine was published in The New York Times on March 26, 1993, the reader reaction was intense and not all positive.
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