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	Category: Spot News First Place Ryan M. Kelly "Charlottesville attack"
	Second Place Goran Tomasevic "MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-MOSUL"
	Third Place Carlos Becerra "Burned"
	Award of Excellence Christoffer Hjalmarsson "Untitled" Award of Excellence Ohad Zwigenberg "There is a war between the left and right, a war between the black and white , a war between the odd and the even." Award of Excellence Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times "Approaching Fire" Award of Excellence Marco Bello/REUTERS "Clashes at the air base fence" Award of Excellence Zakaria Abdelkafi/Agence France-Presse "FRANCE-LABOUR-MAYDAY-DEMO" Award of Excellence Toby Melville/REUTERS "POYI 3" Award of Excellence Felipe Dana "Injured" Award of Excellence Roger LeMoyne/Freelance "Exodus of Rohingya at Pulongkhali" Award of Excellence Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images Europe "Untitled"

Award of Excellence

"Exodus of Rohingya at Pulongkhali"

On the 16th of October thousands (estimates of 10,000 or more) of Rohingya, including many children and elderly people, crossed a small river from Myanmar and made their way through rice paddies toward the village of Palangkhali a distance of +/- 5 km in extreme heat. The Bangladesh border guards would not allow the refugees to enter the village and at the time of this captioning the X thousand Rohingya were waiting for access to dry land in rice paddies near Palangkhali wtih driving tropical rain coming at night.