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May 22, 2021, Ybor City, Florida, USA: Remi Nelson, 19 of Brandon cheers for beads during the 2021 Tampa Pride Diversity Parade.
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lMay 29, 2021, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan: A lady sits at a temporary outdoor ward outside a hospital in Taipei with oxygen cylinders and beds, as hospitals in the capital face a shortage of isolation ward and intensive care unit workers amid rising number of infections. Taiwan’s medical systems are expected to be overwhelmed by an escalating domestic outbreak which is packed with a dragged supply of vaccines alongside the possibility of imposing lockdown.
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May 17, 2021, New York City, New York, USA: As the New York subway is due to return tonight to a 24-hour service that was suspended during the pandemic, new contingents of NYPD police have been deployed underground because of an alarming increase in rider assaults and workers who are stabbed, beaten, stolen or thrown under the train. From 4,300 cops that were in the subway system in the 90s, the level has dropped to 600 since February 2021. 75% of people who answered the MTA’s survey said they do feel safer in the presence of uniformed officers. Behind these repeated assaults, the mental health issue which has worsened since the pandemic and the NYPD which was defunded last summer.
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January 30, 2021, Hong Kong, CHINA: Citizens walk past street side vendor that sells SIM Cards in Hong Kong. HKSAR is planning to initiate a programme called Real Name Registration for SIM Cards. The intention of HK government is to stamp out anonymous mobile phone users for ‘security reason’. Government is insisting that such a move has nothing to do with any intention to register true identities of SIM Cards users however many citizens are skeptical about government’s intention of promoting the PLAN.
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June 1, 2021, Osasco, Brazil: The Brazilian economy grew in the 1st quarter of this year and returns to the pre-pandemic level of covid-19. Despite the second wave of the health crisis in the country at the beginning, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) rose 1.2%, the third consecutive positive quarterly result. In the photo people at the shopping center.
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April 16, 2021, HONG KONG, CHINA: Alexandra Wong, commonly known to citizens as GRANDMA WONG, displaying protesting placards outside the courthouse this morning as show of support for the accused HK Democrats prosecuted under political trial.
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Rocket attacks in the Middle East kill hundreds before a tenuous cease fire is reached, COVID-19 cases surge overseas and more mass shootings plague the US. The May 2021 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMAPress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalism www.thepicturesofthemonth.com
ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, 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. #zbestdaily #zuma24 #thePicturesOftheMonth #POD #thePicturesOftheDay #zumapress #photojournalism #pic #picoftheday
Photographers:
Adryel Talamantes • Alexis Sciard • Alfredo Falcone • Algi Febri Sugita • Aloisio Mauricio • Ameer Al Mohammedaw • Anas Alkharboutli • Andy Buchanan • Antonio Sempere • Arnaud Brian • Ashraf Amra • Axel Kohring • Bill Clark • Bodo Marks • Brian Cahn • Carl Sandin • Carol Guzy • Ceng Shou Yi • Chris Putnam • Danny Lawson • David Parry • Debarchan Chatterjee • Dipen Shrestha • Donatella Giagnori • Evandro Inetti • Fabio Ferrari • Fabrizio Carabelli • Frank Rumpenhorst • Gian Mattia D’Alberto • Habboub Ramez • Harun-Or-Rashid • Hu Yan • Ilia Yefimovich • Ivy Ceballo • Jacek Prondzynski • Jeff Mcintosh • Jens Buttner • Johanes Christo • Joseph Prezioso • Karl-Josef Hildenbrand • Kenjiro Matsuo • Kyle Okita • Laurent Paillier • Luay Sababa • Lukasz Grochala • Mahmoud Issa • Mahmoud Khattab • Majdi Fathi • Martin Fischer • Martyn Wheatley • Michael Kuijl • Mike Egerton • Mohamed Siali • Mohammed Talatene • Mohammed Turabi • Mustasinur Rahman Alvi • Naoki Nishimura • Nayem Shaan • Neal Waters • Omri Stein • Patrick B. Kraemer • Peng Huhn • Peter Byrne • Rahmatullah Alizadah • Ringo Chiu • Robin Loznak • Rod Lamkey • Sergei Fadeichev • Shadi Jarar’Ah • Slavek Ruta • Sony Ramany • Stephen Chung • Tasos Katopodis • Tom Weller • Uwe Anspach • Vichan Poti • Wang Lili • Yuri Smityuk • Zhou Zhiyong
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