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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2021 Thomson Reuters From the shores of Indonesia's Bangka island, miners like Hendra head out by boat every day to scores of crudely built wooden pontoons dotted off the coast that are equipped to dredge the seabed for lucrative deposits of tin ore. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mining-tin-from-the-sea Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:45:14 +0000 Covering the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as it tore through Indian cities, towns and villages was overwhelming at times. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/witnessing-covid-chaos-in-indias-hospitals-graveyards-and-crematoriums Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:15:04 +0000 After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-great-green-wall-chinas-farmers-push-back-the-desert-one-tree-at-a-time Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:35:36 +0000 One young woman grew alarmed when she saw Confederate flags pop up around her small town. Another student often quietly knitted to persevere through stress. A Black teenager in the South feared racist violence more than a virus. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-us-students-confronting-racism-injustice-and-a-pandemic Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:20:02 +0000 Each morning, Ko Phyo washes himself and his two-year-old son while seated on a chair, a plastic bag covering what remains of a thigh that he says was shattered by a bullet fired by a Myanmar soldier. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-fallen-souls-a-survivor-says-myanmar-fight-must-go-on Fri, 28 May 2021 22:45:54 +0000 Pramila Devi's shrouded body lay on a bier, resting on a rock on the banks of a muddy Ganges. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/death-in-the-himalayas-poverty-fear-stretched-resources-propel-indias-covid-crisis Thu, 27 May 2021 04:26:11 +0000 Wooded areas up and down the U.S. East Coast are breaking into a deafening buzz. After 17 years spent alone underground, billions of red-eyed cicadas are emerging for their final act: to meet a partner, breed and die. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/getting-up-close-with-cicadas-to-find-climate-change-clues Wed, 26 May 2021 12:45:24 +0000 Trainee flight attendant Ghenwa, engineering student Ali and electronic music DJ Jawad are among a generation of young Syrians to have come of age during the war. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/generation-crisis-young-syrians-come-of-age-in-a-decade-of-conflict Tue, 25 May 2021 15:09:51 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-the-streets-of-tokyo-22-residents-weigh-up-the-olympic-games Thu, 20 May 2021 22:45:19 +0000 A Moroccan boy who used empty plastic bottles to swim to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta this week said he would rather die than go back to Morocco, according to the Spanish soldier who translated for him before he was escorted away. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/id-rather-die-than-go-back-moroccan-migrant-boy-tells-spanish-soldier Thu, 20 May 2021 17:22:53 +0000 Six-year-old Suzy Eshkuntana woke up alone in Gaza's largest hospital where she was rushed by rescuers from the rubble of her home, which had been wrecked by a pre-dawn Israeli strike that killed her mother and all four of her siblings. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gaza-girl-survives-israeli-strike-that-shattered-her-family-and-home Sun, 16 May 2021 17:04:42 +0000 Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this summer. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japanese-boxing-nurse-has-olympic-dream-crushed-by-covid Wed, 12 May 2021 22:45:34 +0000 In a small fishing town in Morocco's south, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and the Sahara, a group of idealistic young surfers are teaching local children to brave the crashing waves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-the-edge-of-moroccan-desert-surfers-give-kids-a-taste-of-waves-and-freedom Wed, 12 May 2021 09:45:55 +0000 Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn’t even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-covid-ravages-india-a-26-year-old-doctor-decides-who-lives-and-who-dies Wed, 05 May 2021 07:42:52 +0000 Pompoms rustle and silver shoes flash as "Japan Pom Pom" practices, moving to a lively cheer dance beat. With members ages 60 to 89, they're no ordinary squad. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dont-call-us-grannies-meet-japans-senior-cheer-squad Tue, 04 May 2021 22:45:06 +0000 For Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, covering India's second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is a daily circuit of crematoriums, cemeteries and hospitals, capturing the struggles of a nation of 1.4 billion people. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/documenting-the-death-of-a-covid-patient-outside-a-delhi-hospital Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:50:31 +0000 Clad in a black wet suit and pink face mask, Jin So-hee's figure cleanly parts the green-blue water until she abruptly dives below the surface, her purple fins disappearing into the deep. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-south-koreas-youngest-sea-women-warming-seas-mean-smaller-catches Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:45:23 +0000 I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-first-photo-i-ever-took-of-my-daughter-and-the-last Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:45:35 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-faces-in-the-fog-of-long-covid Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:45:35 +0000 In his white doctor's jacket, psychiatrist Flavio Falcone could not get homeless drug addicts to talk. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/clowning-is-serious-business-for-doctor-to-homeless-in-brazils-crackland Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:45:57 +0000 Nine-year-old Thai kickboxer Pornpattara "Tata" Peachaurai is eager to get back in the ring after coronavirus curbs brought his fight season to a halt more than five months ago. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/punching-out-of-poverty-despite-risks-nine-year-old-thai-fighter-eager-to-return-to-ring Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:45:27 +0000 Seen from the air, the fragility of humanity as it must have been in the Holy Land in centuries past is plain to see - ancient monasteries clinging to precipices, tiny fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee, deserts gnawing at the edges of towns. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-drones-eye-view-of-the-holy-land-as-christians-look-to-easter Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:09:47 +0000 Shade Ajayi had never set foot in a classroom until middle age. Now 50, the businesswoman is happily learning to read and write alongside students nearly four decades younger than her. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/its-never-too-late-to-learn-says-50-year-old-nigerian-school-pupil Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:45:09 +0000 The dusty buses keep coming, dozens a day, mattresses, chairs and baskets piled on top. They stop at schools hurriedly turned into camps, disgorging families who describe fleeing from ethnic Amhara militia in Ethiopia's Tigray region. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/you-dont-belong-land-dispute-drives-new-exodus-in-ethiopias-tigray Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:39:49 +0000 After losing her husband, two young sons and her home, Noor Banu (pictured below) thought she had seen the worst of life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cant-take-this-pain-rohingya-mother-searches-for-son-after-refugee-camp-blaze Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:54:52 +0000