World Press Photo Winners Announced

A selection of the winning images from the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest

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A selection of the winning images - The overall winner of the World Press Photo Awards was taken by Australian freelance photographer Warren Richardson on August 28, 2015 in Roszke, Hungary. It shows a refugee passing a baby under a barbed wire fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border. Titled "Hope for a New Life," the picture won the prestigious World Press Photo Award on February 18, 2016, highlighting Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War II. / AFP / WORLD PRESS PHOTO

Photographer Francesco Zizola for Noor that won Second Prize Stories in the Contemporary Issues. The picture shows eritrean migrants - the vast majority of the migrants rescued the day before off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea - gathering on the deck of the M.S.F. search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos to attend the service celebrated by one of the three priests on board the ship. EPA/FRANCESCO ZIZOLA / WORLD PRESS PHOTO

Photographer Mario Cruz won First Prize Stories in the Contemporary Issues Category . The picture shows runaway talibes standing on the bank of Senegal river, in Saint Louis city, north of Senegal, May 20, 2015. Saint Louis is known as Talibe city. A city with small proportions compared to Dakar but with a large number of Talibes. Due to that many of them choose the streets instead of Daaras. EPA/MARIO CRUZ / WORLD PRESS PHOTO

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