Decade in pictures: From Haiti’s earthquake to refugee crises
30/12/2019
A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI tags: - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE AVAILABLE SEE: GM1E61G14ZA01 - GM1E61D1IHV01
Anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation in Cairo, Egypt, February 11, 2011. Picture taken February 11, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo SEARCH “POY DECADE” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “REUTERS POY” FOR ALL BEST OF 2019 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. – RC2SND9R8B4UWhite roses with images of the victims of the tragedy in Sandy Hook on a telegraph pole in the town centre after the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, USA. 17th December 2012. Photo by Lisa Wiltse (Photo by Lisa Wiltse/Corbis via Getty Images)South African mourners hold posters of former president Nelson Mandela, while chanting slogans as the convoy transporting the body of Nelson Mandela passes by, in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Motorcycle-riding police officers escorted the casket Wednesday morning from 1 Military Hospital outside of Pretoria to the Union Buildings. Some Pretoria residents lined the streets to watch the procession go by, singing tributes to Mandela, who died Dec. 5 at age 95. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)A Palestinian woman walks past buildings destroyed by what police said were Israeli air strikes and shelling in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip August 3, 2014. An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a U.N.-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said, as dozens died in renewed Israeli shelling of the enclave.The Israeli military declined immediate comment on the attack, the second to hit a school in less than a week. Israel began its air and naval offensive against Gaza on July 8 following a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other guerrillas, later escalating into ground incursions. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (GAZA – Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY CONFLICT) – GM1EA831EXF01A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos September 24, 2015. Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – GF10000387294Saida Ahmed Baghili, 18, who is affected by severe malnutrition, sits on a bed at the al-Thawra hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad/File Photo SEARCH “ZEYAD BAGHILI” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. – RC12DE2E9BF0Rohingya refugees are reflected in rain water along an embankment next to paddy fields after fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh November 2, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay TO FIND ALL PICTURES SEARCH REUTERS PULITZER – RC18DA7E6630