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Soccer fans react as they commemorate soccer legend Diego Maradona in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Maradona died Nov. 25 at the age of 60 of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he recovered from a brain operation.
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Javier Anto, 90, reacts in front of his wife Carmen Panzano, 92, through the window separating the nursing home from the street in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Since the pandemic struck, a glass pane has separated _ and united _ Javier and Carmen for the first prolonged period of their six-decade marriage. Anto has made coming to the street-level window that looks into the nursing home where his wife, since it was closed to visits when COVID-19 struck Spain last spring.
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Daomin Liu competes at Women's 200m Individual Medley - SM6 Heat 1 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Each athlete has unique differences that have to be classified according to individual impairments.
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Children jump over a puddle of water as they play during a rainstorm on a street in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021.
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A couple kiss in front of a barricade set by demonstrators during clashes with police following a protest condemning the arrest of rap singer Pablo Hasl in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Protests over the imprisonment of a rapper convicted for insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorist violence have morphed for the third night in a row into rioting. Pablo Hasl began this week to serve a 9-month sentence in a northeastern prison.
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This series chronicles the Cumbre Vieja eruption, a fissure eruption that started in September 2021 at the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma, one of the Canary Islands. Lava from a volcano eruption flows on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. The volcano on a small Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean erupted, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people.
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Lava from a volcano eruption flows on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
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Vehicles are covered by ashes from a volcano eruption at the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.
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Lava flows from an eruption of a volcano near El Paso on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.
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Lava from a volcano eruption flows on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
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Lava from a volcano eruption flows on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
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Debris covers the ground of a garden of a house near to where a volcano erupted near El Paso on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.
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A police officer orders journalists to leave the area during a media tour near the volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.
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Residents remove their belongings from their houses as lava from a volcano eruption flows, as they are evacuated from their village in Los Llanos, on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.
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Residents look from a hill as the lava from a volcano eruption flows on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.
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Residents leave their house as the lava from a volcano eruption flows on their village at the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.
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This series chronicles the devastating toll COVID-19 took on Spains elderly population, one of the worst in the world. A patient affected with COVID-19 receives critical care at the intensive care unit of a public hospital of Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020.
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Nurse Marta Fernandez holds up a tablet computer over the chest of 94-year-old Maria Teresa Argullos Bove so that she can speak to her sister, children and grandchildren from her hospital bed at the COVID-19 ward at the hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 18, 2020.
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A patient infected with Coronavirus rests in a chair inside an isolated room at the COVID-19 ward of a public hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 18, 2020.
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In this Monday, April 6, 2020, Aurelia reacts next to his husband with respiratory problems in critical condition as he is treated by doctors during an emergency home visit in Barcelona, Spain. The man eventually died.
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Wearing protective suits to prevent infection, mortuary workers move the body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 from an elevator after removing it from a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 13, 2020.
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Residents look at the street through a window at the Icaria nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 25, 2020.
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The body of an elderly person is prepared inside a coffin for her funeral at a morgue in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 5, 2020.
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The body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 is covered with a sheet on her bed in a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 13, 2020.
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A man reacts as mortuary workers remove the body of his sister who allegedly died of COVID-19 but also was a cancer patience, at their home in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020.
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A mortuary worker collects the ashes of a COVID-19 victim from an oven after the remains where cremated at Memora mortuary in Girona, Spain, Nov. 19, 2020.
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lvaro Puig Moreno watches television while eating a his Christmas Eve dinner at his home in Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 24, 2020. "The solitude gets to me these days, I often feel depressed," Puig said. "These holidays, instead of making me happy, make me sad. I hate them. Most of family has died, I am one of the last ones left. I will spend Christmas at home alone because I don't have anyone to spend them with."
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Mortuary workers take off their protective clothing at the entrance of a building decorated with a Christmas tree, after removing the body of person who is suspected of dying from COVID-19 in Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 23, 2020.
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Twenty years after the attacks of Sept. 11, and just days after the Taliban took control of Kabul, these athletes here are a small group of American combat veterans competing in the Tokyo Paralympics -- a corps of elite athletes who have triumphed over catastrophic injuries they suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are a disparate group. Some are relentlessly optimistic. Others spent years wrestling emotional demons. Some insist they emerged from their personal battlefields without emotional scarring. Others insist thats impossible. Their stories are tangles of adversity and redemption, loss and achievement. What unites them is a fierce competitiveness and an ability to push past disabilities that can look insurmountable to an outsider. And, at times, a quiet anger at people who dismiss them. Brad Snyder prepares tea for his wife in their kitchen decorated with a flag handcrafted by Brooklyn firefighters using recycled firehose, in Princeton, N.J., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Losing his sight, he says, seems to matter more to other people.
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Luis Puertas' suitcases and a pair of prosthetic blades sit by his door in Orlando, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, as he prepares to travel to the Tokyo Paralympics Games.
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Melissa Stockwell plays with her children, Dallas and Millie, in their home in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021. Ive always been an optimistic person, she says. Probably annoyingly optimistic to lots of people.
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Brad Snyder works out on his stationary bicycle during daily training in his garage in Princeton, N.J., on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. A top swimmer at the U.S. Naval Academy, Snyder won his first two Paralympic gold medals in London barely a year after losing his sight. He won three more in Rio De Janeiro in 2016, then switched to the triathlon.
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Freddie De Los Santos rides his bicycle as part of his daily training in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2021. A fierce cyclist, he was introduced to the sport by physical therapists at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the hospital outside of Washington where tens of thousands of injured American soldiers were treated after Sept. 11.
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Freddie De Los Santos prepares his coffee afead a training session at his house in Hopewell Junction, NY., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2021.
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Luis Puertas fixes his prosthetic blades on his residual limbs during one of his daily training sessions in a sports complex in Orlando, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. Puertas, 34, lost both his legs in September 2006 as he patrolled a crowded Baghdad neighborhood. His legs were severed when a massive IED blasted through his armored vehicle.
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Melissa Stockwell, pauses during her swimming at a sport complex during a daily training in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday Aug. 6, 2021.
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Luis Puertas competes in the Men's 200m T-61 final, at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.
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Freddie De Los Santos, is comforted by Tom Davis, left, after losing in the Men's H5 Road Race at the Fuji International Speedway at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. De Los Santos says combat taught him to thrive on pain, making him a relentless competitor. You enjoy the pain, he said. Sometimes, that pain is your best enemy. When Im racing and I start to feel the pain, I say How are you doing?
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Melissa Stockwell competes in the Women's Triathlon PTS2 at Odaiba Marine Park in the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021.
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Brad Snyder bites his gold medal after wining the Men's Triathlon PTV1 in the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021.
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