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    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Nabil Ismail
    • Nationality Lebanon
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 19-06-1985
    • Country Lebanon
    • Place Beirut
    • Caption Guarded by an armed Palestinian hijacker, John Testrake, pilot of a TWA Boeing 727 answers questions from the press at the Beirut International Airport. The flight (847) from Athens to Rome was hijacked on 14 June and forced to land in Beirut. The plane's 145 passengers were kept as hostages for 17 days as the aircraft flew between Beirut and Algeria twice. The hijackers demanded the release of 17 members of Hezbollah and the Iraqi Islamic Daawa Party detained in Kuwait for attacks that killed six people in 1983. During the incident, the hijackers killed a US Navy diver and dumped his body on to the runway apron at Beirut Airport.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Felipe Caicedo Chacón
    • Nationality Colombia
    • Organization / Publication Colprensa
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 13-11-1985
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Armero
    • Caption Luz Ensueño is rescued from the mud, some hours after volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted. The eruption caused a massive avalanche of mud, wiping Armero off the map and killing 23,000.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Ronald G. Bell
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Press Association
    • Category Happy News & Humor stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1985
    • Caption Disco Charlie, the Prince of Wales.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Pascal Maître
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1985
    • Country Iran
    • Caption Daily life in Iran.
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