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One of Reuters' most decorated photographers, Yannis Behrakis has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Behrakis covered conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, a massive earthquake in Kashmir and the Egyptian uprising of 2011. He also led a team to a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of the refugee crisis. He once said: "My mission is to make sure that nobody can say: 'I didn't know'."

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A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Rebel Chechens shoot against Russian soldiers during street fighting in central Grozny, January 2, 1995.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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A British army officer has her handgun cocked as Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Basra, Iraq, April 6, 2003.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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A red sun is seen over a dinghy, filled with refugees and drifting in the Aegean sea, after its motor broke down, August 11, 2015.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Yannis Behrakis takes a self portrait after surviving an ambush by Revolutionary United Front rebels in the jungle of Sierra Leone where colleagues, Kurt Schork and Miguel Moreno, were killed, May 2000.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border, April 5, 1991.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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An anti-government protester prays as his comrades stand behind barbed wire in front of army tanks on the front line near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, February 5, 2011.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Egyptian demonstrators brave police water canons and tear gas during a protest in Cairo after Friday prayers, January 28, 2011.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Injured U.S. Army specialist William Lembo (C) is helped into a Black Hawk helicopter during a medical evacuation operation near the Arghandab river in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, May 11, 2010.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel Obai Kanu, 18, (C) is surrounded by government troops after he was captured following heavy fighting 100 km east northeast of Freetown, Sierra Leone, May 23, 2000.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, November 3, 2014.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage across the border from Greece into Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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A Syrian refugee holding his children jumps off a dinghy at the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey September 24, 2015.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Albanian gunmen demand payment from civilians hoping to board a ship for Italy near the port of Durres, Albania, March 3, 1997.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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