August 4, 2022, Moscow, Russia: US Olympic basketball champion BRITTNEY GRINER attends the verdict announcement at the Khimki Municipal Court in the town of Khimki, northeast of Moscow. Griner has been found guilty of smuggling and possession of drugs and sentenced to nine years in prison. (Credit Image: © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS via ZUMA Press)

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Carol is ZUMA Press Wire’s Star Photojournalist and Story Teller. Reportage about charming, strong-willed elderly babushkas. Women, whom in the face of adversity, they are Ladies That Stayed. Vulnerable targets of random shelling. Yet they can’t, or simply won’t, leave. They deal with not only the brutal existence of a war zone, but the daily struggles of aging with few available services or medications. Welcome to ‘Ladies that Stayed’.

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August 9, 2016 – Former president of the Philippines, Fidel Valdez Ramos (88) is making private visit in Hong Kong on a mission as a special convoy seeking for dialogue with China on South China Sea disputes. Aug 9, 2016. Hong Kong. Liau Chung Ren/ZUMA (Credit Image: © Liau Chung Ren/ZUMA Wire)

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August 2, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan: U.S. House Speaker NANCY PELOSI, center, (D-CA) and U.S. Rep GREGORY MEEKS, right, (D-NY) Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, with the rest of her delegation, are welcomed by Taiwan Foreign Minister JOSEPH WU (left) at Taipei Songshan International Airport. Beijing has voiced serious objections over the visit. Pelosi is the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China. (Credit Image: © Taiwan Foreign Ministry via ZUMA Press Wire)

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‘The game of RISK between China and USA, just went to a deeper level. Proud to have ZUMA Press image, tell the story of the moment and chosen as cover of America’s largest paper, The Wall Street Journal on August 3, 2022, on this milestone in the U.S.-Taiwan relationship.’ – Scott Mc Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press Wire Service

August 2, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan: A total of 21 Chinese warplanes including one Y-8 ELINT (photo) have been spotted entering Taiwan’s southeastern ADIZ Tuesday evening Taiwan time, according to Taiwan Defence Ministry, following the visit to the self governing island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi despite Beijing’s objections. Other PLA plane models spotted include ten J-16, eight J-11, one KJ-500 AEW&C, as well as one Y-9 EW. (Credit Image: © Taiwan Defence Ministry Via Zuma via ZUMA Press Wire)

The Finnish newspaper ILTA-SANOMAT’s weekly Sports supplement magazine, lead with an image from ZUMA partner Panormaic this week, August 3, 2022.

May 22, 2022, Matosinhos, Portugal: ROVANPERA Kalle (fin), Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, portrait during the Rally de Portugal 2022, 4th round of the 2022 WRC World Rally Car Championship, from May 19 to 22, 2022 at Matosinhos, Portugal (Credit Image: © Panoramic via ZUMA Press)

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My heart stopped, when I saw this amazing moment of pure grief that Hector Adolfo Quintanar Perez captured on streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine last week. As a father with a 13 year old boy, I couldn’t imagine the pain this poor man was enduring. Another senseless act by Russia, to fire missiles into a non-military area and kill innocent childern. Shameless. – Scott Mc Kiernan, ZUMA PressWire Service Founder and Editor-in-Chief

The war in Ukraine drags on, former Japanese PM Abe is assassinated, another mass shooting in the US and wildfires burn out of control, globally! The July 2022 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE!

Sit back and enjoy POM! “The Pictures of the Month” presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. ZUMA received a huge volume of over one million professional photographer’s images, all shot in the month of July. The ZUMA photographers covered the four corners of the world to bring pictures that need to be seen! POM shows the best work of these photojournalists, documenting the most important events of the past month.

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ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jeremy Mc Kiernan, Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Mason, Julie Rogers, Katrina Kochneva, Mark Avery, Pat Johnson, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, and the POM Editor-in-Chief Jim Colton made this ZUMA show possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.

Photographers:

Adriel Talamantes • Ahmed Zakot • Al Drago • Allison Bailey • Anas Alkharboutli • Andrew Matthews • Antonio Perez • Ashraf Amra • Bill Clark • Brian Cassella • Bruce Cotler • Cao Zhenping • Chaiwat Subprasom • David Davies • David Stockman • Ed Ram • Fernando Pidal • Habibur Rahman • Hector Adolfo Quintar Perez • Ian West • James Gasperotti • Jan Woitas • Jane Barlow • Jens Buttner • Joe Giddens • John Walton • Julian Stratenschulte • Julie Edwards • Mario Buehner • Michael Kappeler • Miguel Juarez Lugo • Mikhail Tereshchenko • Neal Waters • Nidal Estayeh • Patrik Uhlir • Paul Grover • Pradeep Dambarage • Raquel Natalicchio • Robert Karp • Robert Michael • Robin Loznak • Rod Lamkey • Ruben Albarran • Ryan C. Hermens • Sebastian Gollnow • Sergei Bobylev • Shrooq El-Sayed • Stephane Lemouton • Tayfun Salci • Thilina Kaluthotage • Thomas Warnack • Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy • Winston Zhou • Wu Xiaoling

Newspapers, Picture Agencies + Wire Services:

APA Images • Abaca • Action Press • Avalon • Belga • CNP • CQ Roll Call • CTK • Cfoto • Chicago Tribune • DDP • dpa • Eurokinissi • GEPA • i-Images • Imago • Kyodonews • Lexington Herald-Leader • NASA • NurPhoto • PA Wire • Panoramic • Ritzau • SOPA Images • STSC • Scanpix • TASS • Tracy Barbutes • Ukrinform • Xinhua • ZUMA Press Wire

Music: ‘Ero’ by Roger Subirana Mata

July 31, 2022, Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine: Four Ukrainian soldiers from a special unit patrolling the streets of Kyiv near the areas of foreign embassies during curfew, to eliminate possible threats to diplomats and representatives in Ukraine and to identify spying activities, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Formal foreign embassies in Ukraine include the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Poland, Australia, Malaysia and so on. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

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LEAD IMAGE: July 15, 2011, Smithville, Texas, USA: NORMA MCCORVEY, the woman named ”Roe” in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case ”Roe vs. Wade” which protected a woman’s right to choose abortion, poses at a Smithville, TX city park on July 15, 2011. McCorvey, who died Feb. 18, 2017 in Katy, TX, claims in a new documentary that she was paid handsomely to reverse her position on abortion in the ’90’s. (Credit Image: © Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Wire)

TOP IMAGE: July 15, 2011, Smithville, Texas, USA: NORMA MCCORVEY, the woman named ”Roe” in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case ”Roe vs. Wade” which protected a woman’s right to choose abortion, is baptized by Flip Benham at an unknown location and date. McCorvey, who died Feb. 18, 2017 in Katy, TX, claims in a new documentary that she was paid handsomely to reverse her position on abortion in the ’90’s. (Credit Image: © Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Wire)

SECONDARY IMAGE: April 9, 1989 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S – Norma McCorvey (Jane Doe) and her lawyer Gloria Allred (in blue dress) with hands raised during rally in front of the US Supreme courthouse in Washington DC., April 9, 1989 (Credit Image: © Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire)

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