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  1. 2007

    Contest facts
    • Year 2007
    • Photographer Emilio Morenatti
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 22-05-2007
    • Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip
    • Caption Two rockets are launched towards Israel. The Israeli army reported that seven missiles were fired by Palestinian militants that day, lightly wounding two people. Israel responded with four air raids, targeting suspected arms caches and Hamas militant bases. Palestinian officials said seven people were wounded in the raids. A week earlier, Israel had resumed air strikes in Gaza after a six-month lull in response to Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli towns. In June the Palestinian government proposed a ceasefire.

  3. 2006

    Contest facts
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-09-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption African immigrants wait on the quayside in the port of Los Abrigos. They will be transferred to a police station, and later to a holding center from where they will either be repatriated or sent on to the mainland. Spanish officials estimated that more than 31,000 people reached the Atlantic islands illegally during the year, a fivefold increase on 2005.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-08-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption Tourists, security forces, and Red Cross workers attend to African migrants who have landed on La Tejita beach. Tens of thousands of migrants arrived in 2006, in small wooden boats with up to 150 people on board. They faced a sea journey of some 1,000km, and many arrived starving, dehydrated, or died on the way. Some migrants are repatriated, others are sent to mainland Spain, but many end up in limbo, unable to gain work papers yet unwilling to go home.

  6. 1999

    Contest facts
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Enric F. Martí
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 18-08-1999
    • Country Turkey
    • Place Izmit
    • Caption A firefighting plane sheds its load over the Tupras Oil refinery. The refinery had been on fire since an earthquake hit the area early the day before. Firefighters could not pump water to fight the blaze, because the quake had knocked out electricity to the region. The earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, claimed more than 17,000 lives and made hundreds of thousands homeless. It was not only a humanitarian disaster, but had a severe impact on the Turkish economy, as the affected area formed the industrial heart of the country.
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