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17 award-winning photos from 2015 everyone should see

Jeremy BenderApr 19, 2016, 20:46 IST

REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisMigrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.

Instability throughout large parts of the world in 2015 have furthered exacerbated a growing refugee crisis in Turkey, parts of the Middle East, and throughout Europe.

Coming from war zones in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and portions of sub-Saharan Africa, the refugees have been driven towards Europe with the hopes of finding a better life for themselves and their families. The scope of the crisis is almost impossible to grasp: in 2015, over 1 million refugees have entered Europe alone.

The following photos from staff photographers at Thomson Reuters won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.