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Malaysian-born photojournalist Marcus Yam wins Pulitzer Prize

By R. SEKARAN
Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and staff photographer Marcus Yam learns he won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for work related to the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, at a hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, May 9, 2022. (Meg McLaughlin/Los Angeles Times via AP)

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian-born Los Angeles Times journalist Marcus Yam has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.

He won the coveted award for his poignant, searing pictures taken during the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan to Taliban fighters.

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