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  • Young men re-enact the former border crossing between Communist East and West Germany during the Cold War at the site of the former Checkpoint Charlie, the border. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The road checkpoint before entering the Xayaburi Dam construction site, a hydroelectric dam on the Lower Mekong River approximately 30 kilometres east of Xayaburi town in Northern Laos. The project is surrounded in controversy due to complaints from downstream riparians and environmentalists that the dam would cause significant and irreversible damage to the river's ecosystem. Funded by a Thai company, 90% of the electricity produced by the dam has already been pre-sold to Thailand.
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  • The backs of officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • Palestinian women pass through a gap in the controversial Wall between Israel and Palestine rather than going through the Qalandiya checkpoint.
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  • As darkness approaches, a queue of campervans and other vehicles queue up at the first checkpoint in the Port of Dover's Eastern Docks, the holidaymakers' first step to travelling across the English Channel to France or Belgium. beneath the famous white cliffs of Dover, that symbol of England's edge that is seen from the sea as one leaves or approaches the English shores. It is dusk and the flood lights have started illuminating the busy port roads and ramps, the red rear tail lights from a truck cross the picture's foreground and the signs - with graphics of busses, cars  and arrows that tell drivers in which lane to line-up glow yellow. Dover has long been one of the World's premier seaports, with centuries of maritime heritage, presented with a Royal Charter in 1606.
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  • The backs of officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police05-18-10-2013_1.jpg
  • Che Guevara has been painted on the Wall. It is common image along the wall separating; Palestine and Israel.
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  • At the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, Yasser Arafat’s death is mourned by soldiers & visitors at his tomb. Um Abed a local elderly lady and friend of Arafat visited him regularly when he was ill for coffee. She insists his death was suspicious.
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  • The wall separating Israel (left) and Palestine (right), also known as the security fence cuts through communities in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank.
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  • A young Palestinian boy in front of the Wall. Political statements are common decoration along the wall being built by the Israelis to separate Palestine and Israel.
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  • A settlement sits on top of a hill on the road to Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
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  • Watched by the grand mother Nihad Qasqas, the well baby nurse for the UHWC and Safa Qasqas the well baby nurse for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) take blood samples for testing from a 2 week old baby girl. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin, PRCS and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
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  • A Jewish settlement in Palestine. Looking at it through a barbed wire barrier of the security fence.
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  • Between calls the paramedics pick up water supplies from a local shop in Aizaria north of Jerusalem. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency medical transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall was built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
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  • Alaa Hamad driving the ambulance in response to a 101 emergency call. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall’s been built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
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  • A taxi passes a security wall in Nablus, West Bank.
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  • Sunrise over the old city of Nablus, West Bank, Palestine after the usual night of bombings and gun fights.
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  • Yasser Arafat posters after his death on the wall of a building in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine.
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  • At the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, Yasser Arafat's death is mourned by soldiers & visitors at his tomb. Um Abed a local elderly lady and friend of Arafat visited him regularly when he was ill for coffee. She insists his death was suspicious.
    04-arafat_7120.jpg
  • Dr Suad Abu Eideh a well baby doctor examines a 2-week-old baby girl in the village of Battir, West Bank. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
    04-sv_8731.jpg
  • Emergency medical transport staff lift a patient on a stretcher out of an ambulance into the Al Maqassad hospital in Jerusalem. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall was built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
    04-prcs_7854.jpg
  • At the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, Yasser Arafat’s death is mourned by soldiers & visitors at his tomb. Um Abed a local elderly lady and friend of Arafat visited him regularly when he was ill for coffee. She insists his death was suspicious.
    04-arafat_7120_1.jpg
  • An outdoor exhibition panel near the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • The portrait of a Soviet soldier sits high above modern Friedrishstrasse in modern Berlin at the location of  the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Visitors learning about the Berlin Wall read outdoor exhibition panels near the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    checkpoint_charlie_tourists02-05-04-...jpg
  • World dictators adorn old sections of the old Berlin Wall <br />
opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_dictators03-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The Boarder Force checkpoint inside the Eastern Dock of the Port of Dover is where the cross channel port is situated with ferries departing here to go to Calais in France. Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.  Dover is the nearest port to France with just 34 kilometres 21 miles between them. It is one of the busiest ports in the world. As well as freight container ships it is also the main port for P&O and DFDS Seaways ferries.
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  • The cracked walls of a police checkpoint outbuilding near Bagdad, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. The desert lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) and measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south and is patrolled by armed police convoys.
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  • We see a male passenger from the waste down with a laptop computer in one hand and a Retriever puppy peering out from his owner's bag in the other, both human and pet are about to board a domestic flight from Chicago O'Hare airport. According to the American Transport Security Administration, taking pets into the aircraft cabin is permissable but the animal is required to be presented to the Security Officers at the checkpoint. it may also walk with its owner through the metal detector but not through the x-ray scanner. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • World dictators (incl Syrian President Bashir al-Assad) adorn old sections of the old Berlin Wall opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_dictators04-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • World dictators adorn old sections of the old Berlin Wall <br />
opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_dictators02-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Colourfully-painted sections of the old Berlin Wall are exhibited by local artists opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_art02-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A painted section of the old Berlin wall standing in a pedestrian precinct, near Checkpoint Charlie in central Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the Communist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    bderlin_wall01-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • An image of Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, adorns an old section of the old Berlin Wall opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_dictators01-05-04-2013_1.jpg
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