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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2020 Thomson Reuters At an open-air, riverbank factory where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Sudan, Mohamed Ahmed al Ameen (pictured below) and his colleagues mould thousands of bricks every day from mud deposited by summer floods. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fears-at-niles-convergence-in-sudan-that-new-dam-will-sap-rivers-strength Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:25:01 +0000 The fine white dust that shrouds much of his northern Myanmar village also covers sculptor Chin Win as he leans over a half-finished Buddha statue. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/carving-buddha-in-myanmar-village-blessed-with-marble-bounty Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:35:24 +0000 After days suffering from shortness of breath, 49-year-old Andrelina Bizerra da Silva (the coffin holding her body pictured below) fainted suddenly. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-many-people-are-going-to-die-covid-19-races-up-the-amazon Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:28:58 +0000 For Reuters photographer Lawrence Bryant, the events of last Sunday in St. Louis, Missouri, will make him extra vigilant the next time he goes out to cover anti-racism protests that are sweeping the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/us-couple-waves-guns-at-anti-racism-protesters Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:33:29 +0000 After nearly 15 hours of labor, Karla Lopez Rangel received a stern warning from her midwife: if you do not deliver the baby now, we will have to rush you to the hospital. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hospitals-are-too-risky-home-birth-in-mexico-city Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:30:47 +0000 Seven years ago, Dharamveer Solanki (pictured below), a Hindu, left his home in Pakistan’s Hyderabad city, never to return. When his train crossed the border into India, Solanki said he felt happier than ever before. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/living-on-the-edge-pakistani-hindus-still-feel-safer-in-india-2 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:33:20 +0000 "That's not what we do!" https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/black-man-carries-suspected-far-right-protester-to-safety Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:35:57 +0000 Stunned protesters surround a car that has driven into their ranks. A man is lying on the ground nearby. Another man exits the driver's side of the vehicle brandishing a gun. The protesters back away from him and he runs off and melts into the crowd as medics rush to help the wounded man. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-shooting-in-seattle Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:12:28 +0000 In the weeks before she took her own life, Thai waitress Nitiwadee Sae-Tia felt growing financial pressure after she lost her job, a member of the family said. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/calls-to-suicide-helpline-show-thais-stress-in-downturn Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:35:10 +0000 On Indonesia's Sumba island, the motifs displayed on traditional textiles produced by its weavers often depict animals, including the area's famed Sandalwood breed of horses. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-crops-fail-indonesias-sumba-seeks-lifeline-in-weaving-fishing Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:35:35 +0000 After putting a coronavirus patient onto a ventilator to help him to breathe, Dr. Zafia Anklesaria noted to herself that her baby never kicked during emergency procedures. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-pregnant-doctor-navigates-covid-19-fight-in-low-income-la Tue, 26 May 2020 06:44:12 +0000 Valnir da Silva died on the streets of a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood on Saturday. His body lay on the sidewalk for 30 hours, according to relatives and neighbors. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/corpse-lay-on-the-street-in-coronavirus-racked-rio-for-30-hours Thu, 21 May 2020 16:48:20 +0000 For Reuters photographer Hannah McKay, a recent trip to take pictures at a hospital in northern England required the kind of planning more typical of a foreign assignment. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-photographer-captured-baby-image-in-coronavirus-lockdown Wed, 20 May 2020 12:30:00 +0000 When a group of villagers in the Ecuadorean fishing community of El Real came down with coughs and fevers in early April, nobody was sure if they had the coronavirus - and no health workers were available to diagnose or treat them. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rural-ecuador-faces-coronavirus-outbreak-without-doctors Wed, 20 May 2020 11:38:25 +0000 For Yerbin Estrada (pictured below), the worst part of the day is when the sun begins to set. The hundreds of inmates of La Esperanza prison in central Honduras must leave its small courtyard and file back to their cramped cells. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cut-off-by-coronavirus-hondurans-in-packed-prison-suffer-mental-toll Thu, 14 May 2020 13:30:05 +0000 Vicente Piratapuia, 69, of the Piratapuia tribe (pictured below), had a high fever and could hardly breathe, but he refused to leave his home on the outskirts of the Amazon rainforest's biggest city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-the-amazon-an-indigenous-nurse-volunteers-in-coronavirus-fight Thu, 07 May 2020 14:43:51 +0000 The young woman is pressed to the ground next to a riot police shield. Detained by Hong Kong authorities, she screams her name out to friends so they can call a lawyer to help. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/reuters-pulitzer-team-captures-hong-kongs-descent-into-chaos Tue, 05 May 2020 16:02:29 +0000 Catholic priest Eduardo "Ponpon" Vasquez has worn a hazmat suit more than a vestment this past month. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hazmat-suits-and-holy-water-two-priests-bring-faith-to-philippines-lockdown Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:41:10 +0000 Even in Italy, where extended family relations run deep,  Marzio Toniolo's tale of a coronavirus lockdown is unusual - four generations cooped up in one house. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-italy-four-generations-in-a-coronavirus-lockdown Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:30:54 +0000 Children confined to their homes under lockdown are drawing what they miss most - friends at school, grandparents, football and green open spaces. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/childrens-drawings-from-lockdown-show-the-world-what-they-miss-most Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:31:11 +0000 There are 48 bodies in the basement of the funeral home in Harlem. Forty are in cardboard boxes, ready for cremation. The other eight are in the refrigerator, to be embalmed and buried. It will be weeks or months before they get either. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dealing-with-the-dead-the-female-undertakers-of-harlem Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:41:53 +0000 In homes that are cramped, stuffy and increasingly low on food, residents of Mumbai's huge Dharavi slum are struggling under India's nationwide lockdown. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indians-build-their-own-lockdown-barricades-in-the-countrys-slums Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:35:18 +0000 As a first-time mother with no idea what to expect, Nancy Pedroza was convinced the hospital was the safest place to have her baby. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-home-to-hospital-giving-birth-during-the-us-coronavirus-outbreak Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:35:32 +0000 The shifts are long and the scenes are heartbreaking inside a Maryland hospital where nurses and doctors have been treating coronavirus patients for weeks, unable to let family inside to visit loved ones on their death beds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-day-fighting-the-coronavirus-us-hospital-staff-share-hardest-moments-on-shift Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:46:40 +0000 For several years, Fawn Sharp (pictured below) has seen her tribe on the coastline of Washington state lurch from crisis to crisis: rising sea levels have flooded the Quinault Indian Nation’s main village, and its staple sockeye salmon in nearby rivers have all but disappeared – a direct hit to the tribe’s finances and culture. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-us-tribes-uphill-battle-against-climate-change Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:25:46 +0000