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An image that “speaks to our times” and reminds us of the “fragility of life”. That's how judges described a photograph of Rohingya refugee children queueing with empty plates in Bangladesh that has won a major food photography award.
More than one million people live in refugee camps around the Cox's Bazar district, which has recently been placed in lockdown amid the pandemic.
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Earth 🌍 Despite the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the world mustn't forget the "deeper environmental emergency" facing the planet. That's the view of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
1. A model of the globe with a face mask was left on the ground by children who were playing with it in Guangdong province, China.

2. A man places his hand on parched soil in the Greater Upper Nile region of Sudan, Africa.

3. Women carry fodder for their cattle through a mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.

4. A boy walks over a drainage channel littered with heaps of polythene bags in Karachi, Pakistan. (📷Alex Plavevski/EPA, Julien Behal/PA Wire, Danish Ismail/Reuters, Akhtar Soomro, Reuters)

Rimini is one of Italy’s most popular beach resorts, with 15km of sandy beaches. The local police there have been using drones to search parks and beaches from above and signal to police on the ground if they spot people breaking rules of the lockdown. It’s part of measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. (📷City of Rimini) @ Rimini, Italy

It will not end as soon as we wish to, but if we bring the epidemic under control then we will be able to fight it with other weapons and not just with our eyes closed at home. These are decisive days and we must keep going, knowing however that if the future is ours it will be ours. It won't be easy, but we can make it go well. https://apps.apple.com/it/app/tech19/id1505848062 a ̇d19

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