http://widerimage.reuters.com/ In-depth visual reports from across the world by Reuters, the world's largest news agency. Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2018 Thomson Reuters Former Honduran policeman Ivan says he moved homes so many times to escape the street gangs that terrorize his Central American country that he lost count. Fearful his sons would have to join the gangs or be killed, he eventually joined thousands of Hondurans fleeing to the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/terror-of-gang-violence-drives-migrant-caravans-northward Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:45:28 +0000 The 911 emergency call came in to the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson station around midnight. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/deadly-crossing-ends-american-dream-for-guatemalan-migrant Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:09:32 +0000 Chen Hong-zhi's notebooks are his life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/taiwans-notebook-boy-commits-his-memories-in-writing Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:45:19 +0000 Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby girl as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen's capital Sanaa. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/yemeni-father-mourns-baby-girl-who-died-of-starvation Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:24:31 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/central-american-migrants-trek-north-to-seek-a-better-life Thu, 08 Nov 2018 12:45:15 +0000 They were tortured for their political beliefs. They saw friends shot dead by security forces. They were forced to cut their hair and give up other cultural traditions. This year, they say, they caused a revolution. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ethiopias-new-leader-relies-on-support-from-youth Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:45:04 +0000 For nearly 30 years, Sandy Lam (pictured below) has been rising early each day for a dip in the sometimes choppy waters off the western edge of Hong Kong island, next to one of the world's busiest ports. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hardy-hong-kong-swimmers-brave-busy-harbour Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:45:24 +0000 Just past 4 a.m., under a star-streaked sky, the Central American migrants shouldered their bags and picked over broken sidewalks, - first as a trickle, then as a flood - to the edge of the Mexican town. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-migrant-caravan Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:58:38 +0000 In Brazil's most polarizing election in decades, women have long held the decisive swing vote, with a quarter of the female electorate up for grabs just a month ago — twice the undecided rate among Brazilian men. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/polarizing-brazil-election-forces-women-off-the-fence Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:41:41 +0000 Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/nafta-deal-gives-little-help-to-us-dairy-farmers Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:45:24 +0000 After a fitful night of throbbing abdominal pain, curled up in a ball inside her hurricane-battered home trying to wish away the agony, 21-year-old Angelena Sawyer could barely function, let alone tend to her infant daughter. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/volunteers-rush-to-aid-survivors-after-hurricane-michael Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:45:12 +0000 The home of Crenilton Santos Ferreira and his wife, Claudia Adriana, sits at the end of a sandy path in the scorched northeast Brazilian state of Maranhao, the poorest in the nation. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-brazils-poor-northeast-right-winger-makes-inroads Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:45:53 +0000 Some people in the Syrian capital Damascus have been able to enjoy a semblance of normality since fighting in the area ended in May, but in the rubble of shattered, destitute towns nearby, life could not be more different. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/normality-returns-for-some-in-damascus-after-fighting Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:45:41 +0000 As Poland prepares to mark the centenary of its independence this November, thousands of Poles are training in all weathers for a part-time force meant to help defend the eastern European state from invasion. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-training-with-polands-volunteer-militia Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:55:26 +0000 Earlier this year, the world's two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile's government that will allow them to vastly increase output of the ultralight battery metal from the Atacama, the world's driest desert. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/water-fight-raises-questions-over-chile-lithium-mining Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:28:45 +0000 Nearly three years after a Zika outbreak in Brazil caused thousands of cases of microcephaly and other devastating birth defects in newborns, Reuters returned to check on the mothers and their children. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mothers-of-babies-afflicted-by-zika-fight-poverty-despair Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:45:38 +0000 Wooden beams tilted at crazy angles poke out of piles of shattered concrete littered with battered motorbikes and household items, from crumpled pots and pans to smudged notebooks and soft toys. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/seeking-talismans-of-former-lives-in-quake-rubble Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:45:38 +0000 Every few minutes, the reeds along the Tachira River rustle. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fleeing-crisis-at-home-venezuelans-struggle-abroad-too Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:44:44 +0000 Joby Pathrose, (pictured below), a farmer living a kilometre away from the usually languid Periyar river in southern India, was woken in the night by the sound of rushing waters. Hours later his plantations and everything he owned were completely submerged. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/did-dams-make-indias-once-in-century-floods-worse Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:45:05 +0000 Women serving on Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga, are a tight-knit group on the frontline of a push to transform the Japanese navy into a mixed-gender fighting force, where men outnumber them more than 10 to one. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japans-women-sailors-on-frontline-of-gender-equality Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:45:52 +0000 For Harrison Massie, transitioning from female to male was never about trading one gender for another. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/harrison-a-transgender-mans-journey Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:30:11 +0000 Dark, dirty and slow, Zimbabwe's trains, like much else in the impoverished southern African country, have seen better days. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/zimbabwes-dingy-trains-mirror-economic-decline Fri, 05 Oct 2018 12:42:07 +0000 Edis Haskic (pictured below) has been living in a reception centre since 1995, when Bosnian Serb forces killed his father and 8,000 other Muslim Bosniak men and boys in the eastern town of Srebrenica in Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/displaced-bosnians-blame-politicians-for-their-woes Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:45:32 +0000 Takako Arai's (not pictured) earliest memories are of Tsukiji, playing hide-and-seek with her brother in the concrete maze of Tokyo's sprawling fish market. Years later, she now runs the family's seafood stall that sells mackerel and yellowfin tuna. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-historic-tsukiji-market-closes-fishmongers-mourn Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:45:51 +0000 On the morning of April 8, 12-year-old Eduarda Lopes watched as her mother, Valdilene da Silva, was shot by a stray bullet in Rio de Janeiro's Manguinhos slum, one of the countless innocent victims of rising gangland violence in the city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/violence-leaves-lasting-marks-among-rio-victims-families Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:45:58 +0000