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Anthony Suau: World Press Photo of 2008

A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure
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Walter Astrada won first prize in the Spot News Singles category for his picture of a Kenyan boy screaming as he sees a Kenyan policeman with a baton approaching the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi

Kenyan boy screaming as he sees a policeman with a baton approaching the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi
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The winner in the General News Singles category, by Brazilian photographer Luiz Vasconcelos, was another eviction scene showing a woman holding her naked child while being pushed away from her home by a line of riot police

eviction scene showing a woman holding her naked child while being pushed away from her home by a line of riot police
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John Kolesidis, a Reuters photographer based in Greece, has won the second prize of the People in the News Singles category with this photo of anti-government riots, Athens

anti-government riots in Athens