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Two are better than one: the 97-year-old former US soldier Martin Adler is kissed on the cheeks left and right by the sisters Mafalda (right) and Giuliana Naldi.
For more than seven decades, Adler kept a black and white photo of him as a young soldier with a big smile and three immaculately dressed Italian children.
In 1944 he had saved the siblings when the Nazis withdrew.
This week the veteran met the three, who are now eighty themselves, for the first time in person in Bologna, Italy.
They had already met again eight months ago in a video conversation.
Photo: Antonio Calanni / AP
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Queuing for the ambulance: people wait in a row at Kabul Airport to be allowed to board a US Air Force aircraft.
The US military only wants to fly until August 31.
Photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul / US Air Force / DVIDS / EPA
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God's Warrior: The Taliban have taken power in Afghanistan - and invite you to prayer.
Hundreds of religious leaders from the war-torn country attend the gathering.
Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images
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Humvee as a slip box: Departure applications from Afghans are piled up in a vehicle parked in front of the British and Canadian embassies in Kabul.
Photo: Wakil Kohsar / AFP
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5/21
New home: an Afghan child sits on the floor in Fiumicino Airport.
It has just completed its evacuation flight from Kabul to Rome.
Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane / REUTERS
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Assumption of the Virgin Mary: Orthodox nuns carry candles and flowers as they carry the icon of the Virgin Mary through the streets of Jerusalem's Old City to the place where she is believed to have been buried.
Every year before the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the Marian Tomb to celebrate its assumption into heaven.
Photo: Oded Balilty / AP
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7/21
Hope for new shores: migrants from South America are on their way through the isthmus of Darien between Colombia and Panama.
Your goal: further north through Central America to the USA.
Photo: Rogelio Figueroa / AFP
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8/21
En garde!
China's Li Hao and Artem Masnko duel on the planche - in a wheelchair: The Paralympics in Tokyo have been underway since Tuesday, and wheelchair fencers are traditionally part of the Paralympic program.
Photo: Philip Fong / AFP
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Water march: Fabiola Ramirez from Mexico starts over the 100 meter back in the swimming competitions of the Paralympics.
Swimming is one of the 23 sports that will be practiced in Tokyo through September 5th.
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP
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10/21
Wading in the masses of water: A volunteer fire service rescue worker fights his way through the floods in Helmetta, New Jersey after the flash flood of tropical storm Henri.
The storm, downgraded by a category one hurricane, hit Rhode Island on the east coast of the United States on Sunday, turning off thousands of Americans and bringing record rainfall.
Numerous flights had to be canceled.
Photo: Tom Brenner / AFP
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11/21
Snake worshiper: During the three-day festival for the Hindu goddess of snakes, a dancer performs the traditional Deodhani dance at the Kamakhya Temple in India.
Photo: Dasarath Deka / ZUMA Wire / imago images
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12/21
Night-non-express: a passenger, wrapped in a blanket, waits at the main train station in Frankfurt am Main for the train drivers' union GDL to end its strike
Photo: Armando Babani / AFP
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13/21
Big fireworks on the empty beach: in Sitges, Spain, onlookers gathered at a breakwater to watch the traditional fireworks at the church of San Bartolomeu during the Festa Major de Sitges.
This year's "Corona Edition" took place in a very reduced form, so that the normally overcrowded beach was almost empty.
Photo: Matthias Oesterle / dpa
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14/21
Do you want a little fun?
Here it is: A girl is entertained by two clowns in Havana after receiving a dose of the Cuban corona vaccine Soberana-02.
Photo: Ramon Espinosa / dpa
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15/21
The first wave: surfers riding on the crest of the surf - there is hardly a more popular photo motif in sport.
Here a surfer tries his hand at Bronte Beach in Sydney.
Photo: Saeed Khan / AFP
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16/21
The defense stands: Ukrainian veterans and activists take part in Kiev in the “March of the Defenders”, a parade for the Ukrainian Independence Day on August 24th.
Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko / REUTERS
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17/21
Totally: The picture of this breathtaking moon was taken in Greece, near Athens, at the Temple of Poseidon.
Photo: Alkis Konstantinidis / REUTERS
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18/21
Neighborhood help: The "Topos" - Mexican firefighters - are helping to rescue people from the rubble after the tremendous earthquake in Haiti.
Photo: Matias Delacroix / AP
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Exhausted: Camp-Perrin is a community in Haiti.
Little Younaika comes from there and at the moment that the picture has captured, she tries to find some peace after the severe earthquake.
According to official information, more than 2,000 people died in the magnitude 7.2 quake, around 300 are still missing.
Photo: Matias Delacroix / AP
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20/21
Every help counts: five days after the earthquake with almost 2,200 deaths, helpers in Haiti are distributing food to people who have lost their homes after the disaster.
Photo: Reginald Louissaint / AFP
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21/21
It's cold: But what wants to be an Ironman can also be deterred by the temperatures of the Baltic Sea near Copenhagen.
Photo: Alexander Koerner / IRONMAN / Getty Images