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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters The Dakar Rally is a race like no other, a two-week long endurance challenge across Peru and some of the harshest terrain and conditions on Earth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rallying-the-dakar-a-world-of-sand-and-solitude Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:24:02 +0000 Near the bottom of the island of Hispaniola in southeast Haiti is a forgotten village, cut off from its own country, and slowly emptying as its residents leave for the neighbouring Dominican Republic. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/haitians-abandon-forgotten-town-isolated-for-over-a-decade Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:45:28 +0000 The day before Deb Haaland was sworn in last week as a freshman lawmaker in the most diverse U.S. House of Representatives class in history, she said the weight of being one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress had not yet fully hit her. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/deb-haaland-becomes-one-of-first-two-native-american-congresswomen Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:45:57 +0000 Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 people. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/greenlands-residents-grapple-with-global-warming Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:45:47 +0000 Last month, Boodsabann Chanthawong (below) joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an unrecognised all-female monastery outside Bangkok. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thailands-rebel-female-buddhist-monks-defy-tradition Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:45:46 +0000 It is three o'clock in the morning and Artak Tadevosyan is wafting incense through the corridors of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified and buried. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/walking-in-the-lords-footsteps-in-jerusalems-holy-sepulchre Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:45:40 +0000 Ana Luz, sister-in-law of Ronald Blanco, looked on grimly as neighbors of the murdered Honduran man washed away the rills of blood left where his bullet-ridden body had lain outside his house in a troubled barrio on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/violence-gangs-cast-pall-over-life-in-honduras Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:40:51 +0000 Since setting out from Honduras in the hope of reaching the United States, Nicolas Alonso Sanchez has worn a simple wooden cross around his neck – a quiet reminder of the Roman Catholic faith that propels him forward. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-many-migrants-trekking-to-the-us-faith-is-their-compass Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:40:36 +0000 Jimmy Martinez, (below), a 22-year old Salvadoran who has traveled north since October in a caravan of Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States, wears his shorts low and baggy and his hair slicked back like his favourite U.S. hip hop artists. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/us-films-hip-hop-inspire-young-immigrants-american-dream Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:45:18 +0000 Heads turn when An Hui and Ye Jianbin walk down a street in the Chinese city of Shenzhen with their triplets, who were conceived with help from a human egg donor and a surrogate mother. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/lgbt-parents-challenge-stereotypes-in-china Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:15:43 +0000 A 5-year-old boy rests by the roadside with his mother as thousands of fellow migrants trudge past. A woman grips her two young daughters as they flee a cloud of tear gas. A child slithers under a fence to reach U.S. soil. A man sobs in a U.S. border patrol vehicle as his dreams of a new life are dashed. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/caravans-the-new-face-of-migration-with-no-end-in-sight Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:09:25 +0000 In the pitch black of the moonless Chilean desert night, the Cuban man is hard to spot until he is within yards of the border. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chile-cracks-down-on-migrants-many-still-try-their-luck Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:47:01 +0000 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often framed in black and white, an outlook captured by this image of Palestinian youths shrouded by clouds of smoke that block out everything except an isolated moment of protest and defiance. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-smoke-clears-capturing-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:00:48 +0000 President Donald Trump faced battles across many fronts in 2018, ending the year politically weakened after his Republican Party lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives at midterm elections in November. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-trump-a-year-of-high-drama-at-home-and-abroad Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:30:21 +0000 Erly Marcial of Honduras joined the United States-bound migrant caravan with her family even though the 21-year-old was nearly eight months pregnant. She gave birth to a healthy baby on the grueling trail and is now hoping for another miracle. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/new-mother-on-migrant-caravan-hopes-trumps-heart-softens Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:45:47 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/2018-a-picture-and-its-story-part-2 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:51:43 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/2018-a-picture-and-its-story-part-1-1 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:50:59 +0000 Environmental enforcement agents deep in the Amazon rainforest swooped down on an illegal mine in a dawn raid in early November, in a campaign to tamp down on such activities that environmental groups say have reached epidemic scale. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazils-amazon-rainforest-under-siege-by-illegal-mines Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:02:33 +0000 Usually, a golden rule for a news photographer covering a scene of angry confrontation is to get close, but not involved. Sometimes, though, it's hard to avoid. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/anger-sore-eyes-and-a-photograph-on-the-streets-of-brussels Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:26:56 +0000 Ali Mohammad Rezaie (pictured below) does not celebrate his birthday because his Afghan parents never noted the date he was born. Yet he knows exactly when he arrived in Berlin to seek asylum: Oct 15, 2015. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/with-clubs-and-churches-berlin-becomes-home-for-migrants Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:37:32 +0000 When the roof of a coal mine collapsed in the Georgian town of Tkibuli in July, killing four miners and injuring six, the small town was plunged into grief. Not for the first time. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/georgian-mining-town-offers-little-alternative-to-deadly-job Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:46:50 +0000 When the Wieczorek mine, one of the oldest coal mines in Poland, closed in March, Grzegorz Chudy noticed for the first time the neighbourhood was vibrant with trees in the full bloom of spring. The smell was heady. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/farewell-to-coal-a-polish-city-wakes-up-and-smells-the-blossom Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:40:55 +0000 Residents of India's Ghoramara Island want to leave their home as it shrinks every year due to rising seas, but many say they can't afford it. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/villagers-fear-for-survival-on-indias-disappearing-island Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:45:05 +0000 After nearly two weeks of documenting the harrowing journey of a caravan of mostly Central American migrants headed towards the U.S.-Mexican border, I snapped a picture I will never forget. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/honduran-migrant-flees-tear-gas-with-her-children Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:15:21 +0000 For most people, prison is a place to escape from. For South Koreans in need of a break from the demands of everyday life, a day or two in a faux jail is the escape. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/south-koreans-lock-themselves-up-to-escape-prison-of-daily-life Fri, 23 Nov 2018 06:45:11 +0000