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Friday 21 October 2016

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Ritorno / Return

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North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 18 October 2016

North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 18 October 2016

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge's Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street on October 20, 2016 in London, England. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are were unveiled for the first time today and are often the first to do so in London. The 2016 theme is titled 'Shine on' and features Father Christmas in many of the windows.  (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge’s Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are unveiled for the first time today and are often the first displays in London. The 2016 theme is titled ‘Shine on’ and features Father Christmas in many of the windows.: photo by Chris J Ratcliffe, 20 October 2016

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge's Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street on October 20, 2016 in London, England. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are were unveiled for the first time today and are often the first to do so in London. The 2016 theme is titled 'Shine on' and features Father Christmas in many of the windows.  (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

A shopfitter hoovers the floor of a Selfridge’s Christmas window display at the flagship store on Oxford Street. The 2016 Selfridges Christmas window displays are unveiled for the first time today and are often the first displays in London. The 2016 theme is titled ‘Shine on’ and features Father Christmas in many of the windows.: photo by Chris J Ratcliffe, 20 October 2016

This handout picture taken and released by the Italian Red Cross on October 20, 2016 shows migrants during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea.  A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on October 20, boarding them on the Responder vessel. / AFP PHOTO / ITALIAN RED CROSS / Yara Nardi AND Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / YARA NARDI / ITALIAN RED CROSS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSYARA NARDI,HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images 
Migrants are rescued during an operation in the Mediterranean Sea. A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on Thursday: photo by AFP, 20 October 2016

This handout picture taken and released by the Italian Red Cross on October 20, 2016 shows migrants during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea.  A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on October 20, boarding them on the Responder vessel. / AFP PHOTO / ITALIAN RED CROSS / Yara Nardi AND Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / YARA NARDI / ITALIAN RED CROSS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSYARA NARDI,HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

Migrants are rescued during an operation in the Mediterranean Sea. A team of the Italian Red Cross and the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved 434 people in three different operations on Thursday: photo by AFP, 20 October 2016

epa05593700 A handout picture provided by Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Snapper party, Tony Wu, US  Winner, underwater category For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty. Noticing that the spawning ran ‘like a chain reaction up and down the mass of fish’, Wu positioned himself so that the action came to him. On this occasion, with perfect anticipation, he managed to capture a dynamic arc of spawning fish amid clouds of eggs in the oblique morning light.  EPA/TONY WU / WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.  HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Snapper party is the winner of the underwater category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Natural History Museum. For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty.: photo by Tony Wu/EPA, 20 October 2016

epa05593700 A handout picture provided by Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Snapper party, Tony Wu, US  Winner, underwater category For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty. Noticing that the spawning ran ‘like a chain reaction up and down the mass of fish’, Wu positioned himself so that the action came to him. On this occasion, with perfect anticipation, he managed to capture a dynamic arc of spawning fish amid clouds of eggs in the oblique morning light.  EPA/TONY WU / WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.  HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Snapper party is the winner of the underwater category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Natural History Museum. For several days each month, thousands of two spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The action is intense as the fish fill the water with sperm and eggs, and predators arrive to take advantage of the bounty.: photo by Tony Wu/EPA, 20 October 2016

Azalea, whose Korean name is "Dallae", a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she doesn’t inhale. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Azalea, whose Korean name is “Dallae”, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favourite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she does not inhale.: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 19 October 2016

Azalea, whose Korean name is "Dallae", a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she doesn’t inhale. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) .

Azalea, whose Korean name is “Dallae”, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favourite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she does not inhale.: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 19 October 2016

A policeman watches a new street-art collage by Italian artist Maupal showing Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard keep watches the street near the Vatican on October 19, 2016 in Rome. / AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

A policeman watches a new street-art collage by Italian artist Maupal showing Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard watches the street near the Vatican in Rome: photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP, 19 October 2016 

A policeman watches a new street-art collage by Italian artist Maupal showing Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard keep watches the street near the Vatican on October 19, 2016 in Rome. / AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

A policeman watches a new street-art collage by Italian artist Maupal showing Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard watches the street near the Vatican in Rome: photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP, 19 October 2016 


ITALY - Pope Francis playing tic-tac-toe and drawing peace signs as a Swiss guard watches the street in Rome. By Tiziana Fabiz #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 October 2016


TOPSHOT - A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti, on October 19, 2016. The road leading to Randelle and other villages on the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti. The road leading to Randelle and other villages in the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 20 October 2016

TOPSHOT - A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti, on October 19, 2016. The road leading to Randelle and other villages on the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

A man carries his baby on a trail in the middle of the river that passes near the village of Randelle, in the commune of Chardonniere, in the south west of Haiti. The road leading to Randelle and other villages in the mountains was cut off after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.: photo by Hector Retamal/AFP, 20 October 2016

A salmon makes its way upstream on the River Tyne in Hexham, as tens of thousands of the fish have been helped by a new fish pass in a once in a lifetime journey to spawn. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday October 18, 2016. Along with thousands of sea trout, the fish swim up from the sea so they can lay their eggs in the tributaries of the river. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Salmon. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

A salmon makes its way upstream on the River Tyne in Hexham, as tens of thousands of the fish have been helped by a new fish pass in a once in a lifetime journey to spawn: photo by Owen Humphreys/PA, 19 October 2016 

A salmon makes its way upstream on the River Tyne in Hexham, as tens of thousands of the fish have been helped by a new fish pass in a once in a lifetime journey to spawn. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday October 18, 2016. Along with thousands of sea trout, the fish swim up from the sea so they can lay their eggs in the tributaries of the river. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Salmon. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

A salmon makes its way upstream on the River Tyne in Hexham, as tens of thousands of the fish have been helped by a new fish pass in a once in a lifetime journey to spawn: photo by Owen Humphreys/PA, 19 October 2016

Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk

Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, Iraq: photo by  Ako Rasheed/Reuters, 21 October 2016

Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk

Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, Iraq: photo by  Ako Rasheed/Reuters, 21 October 2016

A local miner wades through water as he walks down from a mountain in Benguet a day after Typhoon Haima struck northern Philippines

A local miner wades through water as he walks down from a mountain in Benguet a day after Typhoon Haima struck northern Philippines: photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters, 21 October 2016

A local miner wades through water as he walks down from a mountain in Benguet a day after Typhoon Haima struck northern Philippines 

A local miner wades through water as he walks down from a mountain in Benguet a day after Typhoon Haima struck northern Philippines: photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters, 21 October 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pats Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the back as she speaks with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at Waldorf Astoria October 20, 2016 in New York, New York. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowsk

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pats Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the back as she speaks with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at Waldorf Astoria: photo Brendan Smialowsk/AFP, 21 October 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pats Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the back as she speaks with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at Waldorf Astoria October 20, 2016 in New York, New York. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowsk

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pats Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the back as she speaks with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at Waldorf Astoria: photo Brendan Smialowsk/AFP, 21 October 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher from a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul during an operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the main hub city.

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher from a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, Iraq during an operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the main hub city: photo by Safin Hamed/AFP, 20 October 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher from a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul during an operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the main hub city.

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher from a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, Iraq during an operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the main hub city: photo by Safin Hamed/AFP, 20 October 2016


CHINA - A man protects his poodle from the rain as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong during a typhoon signal number 8 warning. By 
@AntAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016


IRAQ - An Iraqi man walks as smoke billows in the Qayyarah area during a government forces operation to retake Mosul. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016


PHILIPPINES - A farmer leads his water buffalo in a rice field damaged by super typhoon Haima in Penablanca. By Ted Aljibe #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016  



IRAQ - A member of the Iraqi government forces takes a position on top of a vehicle as smoke rises on outskirts of Qayyarah. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016 
 

#Iraqi soldiers look on as smoke rises from the #Qarayyah area south of #Mosul #Iraq @yasinakgul @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @SundayTimesPictures, 20 October 2016

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Ritorno

Trinano le cose un'estesa monotonia di assenze
Ora è un pallido involucro
L'azzurro scuro delle profondità si è franto
Ora è un arido manto
 
Return
 
Things weave a vast monotony of absences
Now it is a pallid shell
The dark azure of the deeps shatters
Now it is an arid mantle

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Ritorno (Return), from Allegria di naufragi (Joy of shipwrecks), 1919; English by Allen Mandelbaum, in Life of a Man, 1958



Iraqi soldiers walk on a road as smoke billows from the Qayyarah area, 35 miles south of #Mosul, #Iraq Oct 19, 2016. ©Yasin Akgul @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 20 October 2016


 #Haveaniceday #sunset Surveillance cameras overloook a section of the US-Mexico border fence outside of Nogales #AFP  by Frederic J. Brown: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 October 2016 

 #Syria Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province, yesterday. #AFP Photo by @Delilsouleman: image via AFP Photo Department ‏@AFPphoto, 20 October 2016


SYRIA - Daily life of Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016


SYRIA - Daily life of Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016


SYRIA - Daily life of Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016


SYRIA - Daily life of Iraqi refugees at a camp in al-Hol in Hasakeh province. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016



Afghanistan People displaced by #kunduz fighting with Taliban at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of #Kabul #AFP Photo by @shahmarai: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 October 2016




Afghanistan People displaced by #kunduz fighting with Taliban at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of #Kabul #AFP Photo by @shahmarai: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 October 2016




Afghanistan People displaced by #kunduz fighting with Taliban at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of #Kabul #AFP Photo by @shahmarai: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 October 2016

 


Afghanistan People displaced by #kunduz fighting with Taliban at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of #Kabul #AFP Photo by @shahmarai: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 October 2016


The anguish and anger on Gaza’s walls
: image via Electronic Intifada @intifada, 18 October 2016


GAZA CITY - A girl watches from a windowsill as Islamic Jihad Movement commemorate the anniversary of movement's foundation. By @mohmdabed
#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016



SYRIA - A man carries a severely wounded boy at a make-shift hospital in Douma following reported cluster bomb shelling. By @AbdDoumany #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016 



A woman carries a placard during a protest against evacuating civilians #Aleppo #besieged  20,10, 2016. #REUTERS  PH:Abdalrhman Ismail
: image via Abdalrhman Ismail @abdalrhmanIsma, 20 October 2016



Child in Aleppo steadfast in today's demonstration #besieged Aleppo: image via Hozaifa Dahmaan @hozaifadahmaan, 20 October 2016


SYRIA - The hand of a dead Syrian girl is seen at a make-shift hospital in Douma following reported cluster bomb shelling. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 20 October 2016


The story of a Syrian child from besieged #Douma in #Syria #Putin_Iran_Assad_Crimes #Obama_Complicity
: image via Alinaghi Amiry @AlinaghiAmiry, 20 October 2016    Cologne, Germany



Besieged, starved and defenceless. So #Putin sent him some "humanitarian" cluster bombs.#Douma #Syria 20-10-2016
: image via Revolution Syria @RevolutionSyria, 20 October 2016



The regime troops fire 5 cluster bombs into civilian area in #Duma city, killing a child and wounding others: image via SCD Rif Dimashq @SCDRifDimashq, 20 October 2016


2 children killed during Heavy artillery bombing and 5 cluster bombs fired into civilian area in #Duma city: image via SCD Rif Dimashq @SCDRifDimashq, 20 October 2016



Airstrike targeted@SriaCivilDef center in Marat Al Noman; 5 injured and one martyr
: image via whitehelmets - idlib @whitehelmets_syr, 20 October 2016 

 


Airstrike targeted@SriaCivilDef center in Marat Al Noman; 5 injured and one martyr
: image via whitehelmets - idlib @whitehelmets_syr, 20 October 2016


Goodbye my brother Humanity Martyr SCD
Goodbye my brother Humanity Martyr SCD: image via whitehelmets - idlib@whitehelmets_syr, 20 October 2016


One volunteer was killed and 5 injured as an Airstrike targeted Marat Al Noman center in Idlep this morning
: image via Khaled Khatib @995Khaled, 20 October 2016



What words are sufficient response to this child's gaze? #Aleppo
: image via mo3taz891, 17 October 2016



A man sits on the balcony of his damaged house in #besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of #Aleppo 19,10, 2016. #REUTERS PH: Abdalrhman Ismail: image via Abdalrhman Ismail @abdalrhmanIsma. 20 October 2016


PHILIPPINES - A man collects plastic water bottles among the garbage washed ashore as a result of typhoon Haima at Manila Bay. By @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard ‏@fgeffardAFP, 21 October 2016

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