Ulrik Hasemann (Danish School of Journalism)
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Arriving to Europe
More than 1 million refugees arrived to Europe in 2015. Not since the Second World War had so many people been forced to flee their homes and the refugee crisis became the biggest political challenge all over Europe. The vast majority of the refugees sailed from Turkey to the northern coast of Lesbos. The small Greek islands is just 10 kilometers away from the Turkish coast but the crossing can be very dangerous. Most refugees made the journey in small rubber dinghies but sometimes larger boats arrived such as this one on the 16th of November 2015, where about hundred people mainly from Syria and Iraq were crammed together.
Simon Læssøe (Danish School of Journalism)
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Reality TV stars in fight
A fight erupts between reality tv-stars at the afterparty for the Reality Awards. Reality Awards is an event where reality tv is celebrating itself, and at the afterparty at the nightclub Billy Booze, some of the stars of the shows got into a scuffle.
Rune Aarestrup Pedersen (Danish School of Journalism)
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When the refuges reached Denmark
About 300 refugees had made their way through Europe and reached Denmark. In a huge crowd they continued their journey on the highway. A lot of them with the goal to reach Sweden.
Police tried several time to stop the crowd and get the situation under control again.
Alyse Young (Western Kentucky University)
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Patrick Wood of Francisco, IN was driving north on Natcher Parkway, when a blown tire caused his semi to nose dive into the ditch between the northbound and southbound lanes near the Nashville Road exit. ¨I was stuck under the steering wheel,¨said Wood as he was attended to by a fire fighter. Wood was pulled from the truck by a police officer and left with only minor injuries. May 2, 2016.
Jose Lopez (Santa Monica College)
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The Trump Effect
An anti-Trump protester jumps on top of a police vehicle caving in the roof as other protesters fill the streets in front of the Orange County Fair and Event Center along Fair Drive after the Trump rally let out in Costa Mesa, California on Thursday, April 28, 2016. Soon after officers mobilized to clear the scene while on horseback.
Anders Rye Skjoldjensen (Danish School of Journalism)
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Police dog attacking protester
Ulrik Hasemann (Danish School of Journalism)
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Island of the drowned
In October 2015 the Muslim graveyard on Lesbos was full and 67 dead boat refugees were stored in a freezing container at the morgue. After several weeks with bureaucratic problems a new graveyard was established and this is the first burial at the new site. Three adults and three children were buried on November the 14th. Three days later nine refugees drowned again on their way to Lesbos. According to the International Organization for Migration 3700 refugees died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015. 800 of those in the Aegean Sea around Lesbos.