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.@ReutersUK takes home the Breaking News award for its piece Opening Shots: The Gaza War. The jury praised the news outlet for providing “some of the most striking images, from both sides, as the events of October 7th started to unfold.” #RTSAwards
ALT A graphic for the Breaking News award, which announces Opening Shots: The Gaza War as the winner
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Bravo .. a brave brave journalism #RTSAwards
Camera Operator of the Year goes to Fadi Shana, who has been working directly from Gaza. “His images didn't just bring the horrors of war to global audiences, but also the everyday stories of those trying to live through it,” said the jury. #RTSAwards
ALT A graphic for Camera Operator of the Year award, which announces Fadi Shana as the winner
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Entire neighbourhoods are being levelled in #Gaza and children are bearing the brunt. Amazing bravery by @Reuters and @AP camera operators bringing us these pictures. They are so skilled bcs sadly they have done this so often. channel4.com/news/gaza-runni…
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Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, told @Reuters that Wagner fighters reached a Russian nuclear base called Voronezh-45 during their mutiny with the intention of acquiring small Soviet-era nuclear devices in order to raise the stakes reut.rs/3D9U54x
A moment of relief, hope, reunion from the @Reuters team on the ground in Greece today
A Syrian man found his brother among shipwreck survivors in Greece this morning in a tearful reunion | rte.ie/b/1389495
Reuters bringing all angles 🇬🇧
"Not my king!"
Anti-monarchy protesters chanted and booed as King Charles III's procession passed Trafalgar Square in London ahead of the coronation ceremony. nyti.ms/3nyGcsj
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👑 King Charles was anointed and crowned in Britain's biggest ceremonial event in seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years reut.rs/3nz48f8
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Andrew McCarroll's digital love affair with an AI chatbot on the app Replika started as friendship and quickly progressed to romance. But one day, McCarroll's digital 'wife' rebuffed him because Replika removed the ability for sexual roleplay reut.rs/3Ltnkoh
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🧵 The Trend Garden Residence looked like an upscale serviced apartment in the Turkish city of Malatya. But when a powerful earthquake struck on Feb. 6 it collapsed like a house of cards. w/ @gauthiervillars youtube.com/watch?v=GmC-N6H3…
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@Reuters reporter Joe Brock planted location trackers in 11 pairs of old shoes and donated them to a Singapore recycling project to see where they went. He found some of the footwear for sale in markets in neighboring Indonesia reut.rs/3Su4wGU
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Last year we began investigating a shoe recycling project run by Dow and the Singapore government. We discovered that shoes they said would be turned into jogging tracks were exported to Indonesia. 🧵TV/story 👇@specialreports reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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The brightly painted nails were what gave the identity of the body away. Iryna Filkina was 52 when she was killed in the first days of the war in Ukraine.
Photos taken of Filkina's hand spread around the world, becoming a symbol of civilian suffering reut.rs/3ESzlj9 1/7
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📢JOBS Co-bureau chief for Iberia with a background in visual storytelling. This is a really dynamic visuals team shooting video and pictures (often interchangeably) to the highest standard. There’s plenty of breaking news and visually-rich stories to tell jobs.thomsonreuters.com/job/…
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A baby, separated from his family by the earthquake, has been reunited with his father in Syria, after a video of the one year old was posted on social media.
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"I was planning to dress her with a wedding dress. But now, I will dress her with a burial robe."
24-year-old Yunus Emre Kaya describes his pain after losing his fiancée to the powerful earthquake in Turkey, two months before they were supposed to get married.
"I was planning to dress her with a wedding dress, but now I will dress her with a funeral shroud." Heartbreaking story of grief - Yunus Emre and Gulcin were meant to get married in April
Yunus Emre Kaya and his fiance Gulcin were planning a life together before a devastating earthquake shattered their dreams. Two days later, Kaya said a final farewell to his fiance in a sports hall where casualties from the disaster had been laid out reut.rs/40FkXDW