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Iconic Mariupol Maternity Photograph Wins World Press Photo Award

It was one of the most striking photographs since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a tragic postscript. A year later, it has been chosen as World Press Photo of the Year award.

Iconic Mariupol Maternity Photograph Wins World Press Photo Award

A detail of the photograph

Laure Gautherin and Laura Valentina Cortés Sierra

This article was updated at 12:15 p.m. local time on April 21, 2023

It was 16 days after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, when a Russian air raid struck a maternity hospital in the southern city of Mariupol, a shocking attack that international organizations would later determine was a war crime.

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Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka was on the scene, capturing a powerful image of one of the wounded pregnant mothers-to-be. On Thursday, the image was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year prize.

In March 2022, the killing of civilians was multiplying across the country, notably in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Maloletka, a veteran Ukrainian photographer, was one of the very few documenting events in the city at that time.

On March 9, after the Russian air raid struck the Mariupol maternity hospital ward, the AP photographer was on the scene, capturing a series of horrific images, including one showing a wounded pregnant woman being carried by emergency workers through the shattered grounds of the hospital.



The 32-year-old woman named Iryna Kalinina would later die of her injuries, half an hour after giving birth to her stillborn son, named Miron, after the Ukrainian word for peace.

The World Press Photo jury declared that this image “captures the absurdity and horror of war” and that “it is an accurate representation of the year's events and evidence of the war crimes being committed against Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.”

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Italy's Right-Wing Government Turns Up The Heat On 'Gastronationalism'

Rome has been strongly opposed to synthetic foods, insect-based flours and health warnings on alcohol, and aggressive lobbying by Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government against nutritional labeling has prompted accusations in Brussels of "gastronationalism."

Dough is run through a press to make pasta

Creation of home made pasta

Karl De Meyer et Olivier Tosseri

ROME — On March 23, the Italian Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida, announced that Rome would ask UNESCO to recognize Italian cuisine as a piece of intangible cultural heritage.

On March 28, Lollobrigida, who is also Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's brother-in-law, promised that Italy would ban the production, import and marketing of food made in labs, especially artificial meat — despite the fact that there is still no official request to market it in Europe.

Days later, Italian Eurodeputy Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of fascist leader Benito Mussolini and member of the Forza Italia party, which is part of the governing coalition in Rome, caused a sensation in the European Parliament. On the sidelines of the plenary session, Sophia Loren's niece organized a wine tasting, under the slogan "In Vino Veritas," to show her strong opposition (and that of her government) to an Irish proposal to put health warnings on alcohol bottles. At the end of the press conference, around 11am, she showed her determination by drinking from the neck of a bottle of wine, to great applause.

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