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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2022 Thomson Reuters The Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico, can trace its roots as far back as a century ago, when the first such settlers came seeking ideal farming land, isolation from the outside world and the preservation of their religion. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-mexico-a-decade-of-images-shows-mennonites-traditions-frozen-in-time Thu, 19 May 2022 09:45:04 +0000 From hospitals, funeral pyres and remote villages to a Himalayan hillside, car parks and temples, Reuters photographers produced coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in India that captured the spread of the disease and its remorseless toll. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/reuters-wins-pulitzer-for-intimate-devastating-images-of-indias-pandemic Tue, 10 May 2022 14:45:08 +0000 The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of ambulances bringing the wounded and traumatised from the front line of Europe's biggest battlefield. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-a-ukraine-hospital-where-medics-work-as-rockets-fall Wed, 11 May 2022 05:45:20 +0000 Aidan Garza (seen above) often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if David Garza were still right across the living room, sitting in his favorite chair, calling the 12-year-old over to watch a Star Wars series. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-children-who-lost-a-parent-the-pandemic-pain-will-never-end Fri, 06 May 2022 10:45:23 +0000 Inside Planned Parenthood’s Birmingham, Alabama, clinic, a quiet space with few windows and stock photos of the city lining the walls, a woman tapped her hand against her stomach as Dr. Shelly Tien performed a surgical abortion. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-us-abortion-access-wanes-this-doctor-travels-to-fill-a-void Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:45:21 +0000 Victor Gubarev stepped out to buy bread when he was killed by a fragment from a shell that landed in front of his apartment block in Kharkiv on Monday, minutes before his daughter arrived to find an ambulance crew standing over his body. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-daughters-shock-as-a-trip-to-buy-bread-ends-her-fathers-life Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:45:08 +0000 After surviving World War Two and the fall of the Soviet Union, among other seismic events, Zinaida Makishaiva now has her chickens to thank for getting through her most recent ordeal - the brief but brutal occupation of her town by Russian troops. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/behind-enemy-lines-ukrainian-woman-survives-with-her-chickens Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:45:25 +0000 The wheat has been sown for the coming season but nobody in Yakovlivka, a small farming village outside Kharkiv in north eastern Ukraine, knows if it will be harvested. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-a-ukrainian-village-where-farmers-stay-for-the-wheat-harvest-but-fear-russian-attack Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:43:23 +0000 The names of the dead are scrawled on the peeling wall of a school basement where residents say more than 300 people were trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in Yahidne, a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukrainian-villagers-count-dead-after-weeks-confined-in-school-basement Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:42:12 +0000 Alevtina is all smiles as she cuddles her mother Alexandra Zhuravel in their bedroom at Poland's Benedictine Sisters Monastery, a world away from Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/play-and-therapy-pool-ease-trauma-for-ukrainian-refugee-girl-in-poland Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:45:46 +0000 A man lay sprawled by the roadside in the Ukrainian city of Bucha on Sunday, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet wound to his head, one of hundreds of local residents that officials say have been found dead in the wake of five weeks of Russian occupation. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-ukrainian-street-a-corpse-with-hands-bound-and-a-bullet-wound-to-the-head Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:09:07 +0000 Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He leaves behind his wife and four children. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukrainian-photographer-and-reuters-contributor-maksim-levin-killed-covering-war Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:11:22 +0000 A new front in Ethiopia's war in the Afar region is imperilling efforts to get enemies to sit down to peace talks, three regional officials and three diplomats said, and a ceasefire declared last week may have been breached in some places. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/new-front-in-ethiopian-war-displaces-thousands-hits-hopes-of-peace-talks Wed, 30 Mar 2022 08:45:35 +0000 As dawn broke behind her, Harmonie Bataka skated in wide curves down a suburban street on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, Accra, empty but for a scattering of people going to church. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-ghanaian-skate-gal-inspiring-girls-to-ride Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:45:27 +0000 With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: onto fields, villages and roads, and into the eyes of children waiting for food aid parcels. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-green-island-turns-red-madagascans-struggle-through-long-drought Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:45:31 +0000 When 75-year-old Svetlana and her family from the city of Krivoy Rog in central Ukraine reached the snow-covered Putna Monastery in the rolling hills of northeastern Romania, they had been on the road for four days. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/orthodox-monks-welcome-ukrainian-refugees-to-their-medieval-monastery Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:45:35 +0000 Over 100 churches stand in the southern Brazilian town of Prudentopolis, many built in ornate Byzantine style by Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in such large numbers from the late 19th century that it became known as Little Ukraine. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazils-little-ukraine-prays-for-ancestral-homeland Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:45:56 +0000 It never gets completely dark in Colonia El Carmen, home to Mexico's largest natural gas processing center, in the poor southern state of Chiapas. After sunset, a red glare emanates from flares dotted around the Cactus gas processing center, run by state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/never-dark-for-families-under-the-red-glow-of-mexicos-gas-flares Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:45:30 +0000 In a dimly-lit room with racks of women's clothing, Ghanaian artist and LGBT+ activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi flipped through photo self-portraits illustrating her transition to womanhood. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/one-trans-womans-fight-against-a-bill-that-would-criminalise-ghanas-lgbt-community Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:45:54 +0000 On a Tuesday in January, four years after American authorities pried Maria Hernandez away from her daughters and deported her back to Honduras, she returned to the United States - this time with the blessing of the U.S. government. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/split-up-at-the-us-mexico-border-family-finally-reunites Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:45:26 +0000 "Today ... the first game in the Winter Olympics ... begins!" https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-a-frozen-pond-far-from-the-olympics-meet-chinas-ice-hockey-veterans Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:45:54 +0000 A chill wind whips across the Taiwan Strait as a small group of Taiwanese marines stands shivering on a remote dock in the early hours of the morning, their shorts and thin jackets drenched after a day spent mostly in the sea. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-taiwans-brutal-navy-frogmen-bootcamp Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:45:19 +0000 Howling hounds picked up a cougar's scent and led researchers deep into the forest, where the steep hills were covered with cedars and ferns dusted with snow. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-does-a-cougar-cross-a-washington-freeway-their-future-may-depend-on-the-answer Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:45:04 +0000 As winter sets in, Afghan widow Kubra needs to find fuel to heat the single room where eight family members live in the central province of Bamiyan. The flour they bought months ago is running out, so food is also becoming scarce. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-struggling-afghan-family-the-next-meal-is-a-matter-of-faith Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:45:45 +0000 After exhausting journeys that took them from Kabul to Qatar to European cities to U.S. military bases, Afghan families fleeing the Taliban alighted in Kentucky, in a small city well versed in receiving refugees. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-kabul-to-kentucky-afghans-put-down-roots-in-refugee-haven Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:45:20 +0000