Yannis Behrakis, award-winning Reuters photographer, dies aged 58

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Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.

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An ethnic Albanian boy from Kosovo carries a refugee child into Albanian soil to escape fighting in Serbia's turbulent Kosovo province.Albanian gunmen demand payment from civilians hoping to board a ship for Italy near the port of Durres, Albania.. YUGOSLAVIA. Reuters/Yannis Behrakis An ethnic Albanian man mourns next to the body of his close friend Gasper Karaqi, 37, a local school teacher, who was shot dead, at a cemetery in Kosovo.Albanians scramble over an old fishing boat in a desperate bid to board a Greek frigate which docked in the port of Durres to evacuate Chinese and Iranian diplomats. Thousands of Albanians stampeded through police lines in their unsuccessful effort to reach the Greek naval vessel.

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May he rest in peace.

I’m sure he was a fine man, and maybe a great photographer as well. But this reporting is nothing short of abuse. If that’s news, then your reporters in Myanmar aren’t.

R.I.P 😪

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