11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer (pictured right), shakes hands with the then President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević (pictured left) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on Tuesday, October 6, 1992. Fischer’s rematch vs. Boris Vasilievich Spassky would be continued on Wednesday in Belgrade with Fischer leading by 5 to 3. Speaking on the occasion, Milošević said that the match was proving that “Chess and sports cannot be limited by politics”. Photo: AP.
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Refugees walk towards Serbian border with Hungary to protest against its closure for most people trying to reach EU. Photo: Darko Vojinović/AP.
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Serbia celebrates during women’s volleyball semifinal match against U.S. at the Rio Olympics at Ginásio do Maracanãzinho today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo credit: EPA/Michael Reynolds.
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Fifteen-year-old Robert James Fischer stepping on Belgrade soil for the first time on July 9, 1958, coming from Moscow on his way to Portorož Interzonal. The afternoon edition of Večernje novosti took a photo of him at the Surčin Airport captioned “Fischer today in Belgrade”, appearing on the right of the page above a large-font headline: ‘From Moscow to ‘Moscow’”.
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Pristina, Kosovo: MPs try to proceed with the first parliamentary session of the year despite teargas being released by opposition lawmakers. Angry over a government deal with Serbia and demanding snap elections, the united opposition has effectively blocked parliamentary proceedings since October. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.
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People, first prize, singles – Matic Zorman
A child is covered with a raincoat while she waits in line to register at a refugee camp in Preševo, Serbia. Photo: Matic Zorman/World Press Photo 2016. |
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Freelance photographer Warren Richardson, an Australian based in Budapest, poses in front of his picture Hope for a New Life, winner of the World Press Photo 2016. Photo: Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty.
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Spot news, first prize, singles – Warren Richardson
Hope for a new life: migrants crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary. Photo: Warren Richardson/World Press Photo 2016. |
Policemen wear gas masks after opposition lawmakers released teargas at the parliament in Pristina, Kosovo, in the latest eruption of a long-running protest against agreements made with Serbia. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.
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11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer stepping on Yugoslavian soil in the declining summer of 1992. Photo: Politika.
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Grand opening of the Revenge Match of the Twentieth Century in Sveti Stefan, Montenegro, 1992: Jezdimir Vasiljević, 11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, Zita Rajcsányi, and János Kubát. Photo: Politika.
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From left: President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević, 11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, and “Gazda Jezda” Jezdimir Vasiljević informally met at Belgrade on October 6, 1992. Photo: Vreme.
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Migrants and refugees board a train heading to Serbia from the Macedonian town of Gevgelija, on the Greek border. It was reported that 10,000 people crossed from Macedonia into Serbia last Sunday night and headed north to the Croatian border. The EU has called a mini summit with Balkan countries on the crisis as Slovenia became the latest state to buckle under the number of refugees desperate to reach northern Europe before winter.
Photo: Robert Atanasovski/Images.
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Miratovac, Serbia: A child peers through a scarf after crossing the Macedonian-Serbian border. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.
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Berkasovo, Serbia: A woman from Syria waits to cross the Serbian border with Croatia. Photo: Marko Djurica/Reuters.
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Refugees stand behind a fence near Horgos at the Hungarian border with Serbia. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.
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Horgos, Serbia: Clothes are placed on a fence to dry at the Horgos border crossing into Hungary. Photo: Darko Vojinović/AP.
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Ásotthalom, Hungary: A man holds his child on the Serbian side of the fence bordering Hungary, their passage to western Europe having stalled. Photo: László Balogh/Reuters.
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The camera operator for a Hungarian nationalist television channel who was filmed kicking two refugee children and tripping up a man near the border village of Röszke is facing a criminal investigation.
Hungarian prosecutors said a criminal case for breach of the peace has been opened against Petra László of N1TV, an internet-based channel closely linked to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party. [Read more]. |
This video grab made on September 9 shows Hungarian camerawoman Petra László kicking a refugee young girl as she is running away with other migrants from a police line during disturbances at Roszke, southern Hungary.
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BUDAPEST – L’emergenza migranti si aggrava ancora: dopo che ieri il vertice straordinario di Bruxelles si è chiuso senza un accordo sulle quote, oggi in Ungheria è entrata in vigore la nuova legge che prevede fino a tre anni di carcere per chiunque e a qualsiasi titolo tenti di entrare illegalmente nel Paese. E dalla mezzanotte la polizia ha già arrestato 16 migranti entrati dalla Serbia. Centinaia quelli bloccati al confine. [Read more].
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Budapest, Hungary: Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, 20–22 October 1944. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-680-8285A-08.
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Roszke, Hungary: A girl sleeps in a temporary holding camp close to the Hungarian border with Serbia. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Mihály Orbán, has said he wants to speed up construction of a fence meant to stop migrants on the southern border with Serbia, a project which has missed two previous deadlines. Photo: Marko Drobnjaković/AP.
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