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An image dated January 1990 showing a man peeking into the partly dismantled Berlin Wall construction on the East German side of the Berlin Wall with one of Berlin's landmarks, the Brandenburg Gate on the background (reissued 25 October 2019). Following peaceful mass protests in the autumn of 1989 which resulted in a new travel law being introduced in the then-communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), the heavily fortified border between East and West Germany was opened on 09 November 1989. Countless Eas

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South African captain Siya Kolisi (C-L) and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa (C-R) hold the cup as the team celebrates winning the Rugby World Cup final match between England and South Africa at the International Stadium Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama, Japan, 02 November 2019. EPA-EFE/MARK R. CRISTINO EDITORIAL USE ONLY/ NO COMMERCIAL SALES / NOT USED IN ASSOCATION WITH ANY COMMERCIAL ENTITY

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Inhabitants of the town of Lerona Vicario celebrate the Hanal Pixan, an ancestral celebration dedicated to the faithful departed according to the belief of the Hanal Pixan Maya and that is a reunion between living beings and their loved ones who have advanced on their journey in the afterlife, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, 31 October 2019. EPA-EFE/Alberto Flores

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A relative sits next to the dead body of Kodu Singh Parmar, that died inside his room at Kashi Labh Mukti Bhawan in Varanasi, India, 09 October 2019. Kashi Labh Mukti Bhawan is a charity-run a place that offers lodging to those who wish to give up their last breath in the holy city of Varanasi (also known as Banaras or Kashi) to achieve Moksha, a Hindu term for enlightenment or release. There is a saying in Sanskrit, Kashyam Marnata Mukti, which means that one will get Moksha if he dies in Kashi. The city i — Death Guest House - Mukti Bhawan

A boy living on the Autism spectrum immerses himself in a bath filled with coloured plastic balls in a special sensory room designed to help children on the Autism spectrum at the Autism unit of Beacon school in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 May 2019. Waves for Change is an organisation that uses surfing as a form of therapy to help children who are on the autism spectrum. One out of every 59 children globally are diagnosed with some form of autism, and those affected often suffer from social — Surf Therapy Supporting Children Living on the Autism Spectrum

The doctor Frolian Paez (C) does a surgical procedure of a structural rhinoplasty, in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 August 2019. Every six minutes, someone in Venezuela is subject to cosmetic surgery. In a country where millions of inhabitants suffer from a shortage of medicines, thousands are prepared to spend 50-years of minimum wage just for looking beautiful. The Venezuelan Society of Plastic Surgery reported figures of 200 US dollar millions spent by customers in 2018. Every one of the 700 society members c — Silicon City: Venezuela's Non-Petroleum Industry

(02/41) Lei Yao of China Golden Dragons looks on during the 2. Liga ice hockey match between China Golden Dragons and HC Tabor in Slany, Czech Republic, 11 September 2019. A selection of Chinese ice hockey players have been sent to the Czech Republic in a bid to hone their skills and improve their team performances, as China prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. Coming from a country with little to no hockey culture, the promising youngsters have traveled to the other side of the world as — China Golden Dragons

Lieutenant Colonel Bettina Kutsera-Juhasz, Division Head of the Public Order Department of the Budapest Police Headquarters is portrayed at the victims’ memorial near the scene of the accident, at the Pest embankment of Margaret Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, 17 July 2019. ’Like all well-meaning people, I was shaken when I learned about the accident, and as a professional, the urge to help came over me right away’, she recalls. Her colleagues closed off the northern side of the Margaret Bridge and the Pest em — Remembering the Danube Tourist Boat Collision

Local Turkana men stand next to a dam constructed to help refugees and locals in agriculture and livestocks in Kalobeyei settlement, adjacent to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana county, northern Kenya, 25 June 2019. Despite an improvement, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its 2018 report classifies the nutrition situations in Kakuma camp and adjacent Kalobeyei settlement as 'serious' and 'poor' respectively. More than 10 percent of refugees in Kakuma camp suffered from acute malnutrition in 20 — Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya

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