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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters Living with a scarcity of water is becoming the norm for many Venezuelans. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/water-is-now-gold-for-desperate-venezuelans Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:10:25 +0000 A few months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Maria was waiting to see a doctor at a London hospital when an elderly English woman told her to go back to her native Romania. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/an-immigrants-tale-leaving-britain-to-escape-brexit-hostility Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:48:20 +0000 As Yemen’s war grinds into its fifth year with peace efforts stalling, ten-year-old Afaf's father sees little hope he will be able to give his starving daughter the food or healthcare she needs. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hunger-stalks-yemens-remote-villages-after-four-years-of-war Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:45:31 +0000 There are not many people left in Zaitseve, a village on the front line that divides Ukraine, but voters like Galina Soboleva (not pictured) want just one thing from this month's presidential election. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-shadow-of-war-ukrainians-seek-to-vote-for-peace Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:45:18 +0000 The boy lay wide-eyed on a bed of outstretched arms. The men who carried him, and others looking on, cheered at the sight of the youngster who seconds earlier had been pulled from the rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/nigerian-boy-pulled-from-rubble-remains-calm-amid-chaos Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:12:20 +0000 Until January, Jose Martinez and his wife Arelis Morales were in the eye of Venezuela's political storm: he worked for an opposition leader, she advised human rights groups. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/venezuelans-build-new-life-in-spain-fret-for-homeland Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:45:11 +0000 Amid the poverty and deprivation of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian women struggle to find a taste of normality that is taken for granted in much of the rest of the world. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-gaza-women-walk-thin-line-between-hope-and-despair Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:32:40 +0000 A motel and a monastery are among pop-up shelters that have opened in the last six months in Arizona to house a rising number of migrants from Central America entering the United States to seek asylum. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/arizona-monastery-motel-turned-into-migrant-shelters Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:44:01 +0000 Her baby boy Micah is just a few weeks old and already Lauren Hoffmann is back at work. She and her husband Will had decided she would take two months off to welcome Micah, their second child, born in December 2018. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/what-lack-of-paid-family-leave-means-for-one-texas-mother Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:45:35 +0000 Many new mothers worldwide express anxiety and guilt about leaving their babies to return to work, and some worry their nations' maternity policies reflect societies that value productivity over raising children. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/new-mothers-suffer-nerves-guilt-as-maternity-leave-ends Wed, 06 Mar 2019 10:45:05 +0000 Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/yannis-behrakis-award-winning-reuters-photographer-dies-aged-58 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:02:02 +0000 It's 3.30 a.m. in the Philippines and much of San Jose Del Monte is fast asleep. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chaos-gridlock-a-daily-ordeal-for-manilas-commuters Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:45:10 +0000 An eight-year-old boy fled his Koranic school in Saint-Louis, Senegal this month after he said a teacher threatened to beat him for not earning enough money begging on the street. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/forced-to-beg-senegals-talibes-face-exploitation-and-abuse Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:15:39 +0000 Yaneidi Guzman has lost a third of her weight over the past three years as Venezuela's economic collapse made food unaffordable and she now hopes the opposition will succeed in bringing urgently needed foreign aid to the South American country. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/malnourished-venezuelans-hope-urgently-needed-aid-arrives-soon Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:45:49 +0000 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's race to build an oil refinery in record time on land that was until recently alive with mangrove, wild cats and boa constrictors, has run into trouble, complicating his effort to revive ailing state-oil company Pemex. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/wild-cats-boas-are-obstacles-in-mexican-presidents-refinery-race Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:45:35 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/placards-outside-monastery-expose-abuse-in-spanish-church Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:54:50 +0000 Seventeen-year old Carolina is putting on some snazzy shoes and make-up, talking excitedly to her friends on her phone, getting ready to go out for a party. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fleeing-honduras-family-stakes-its-future-on-asylum-in-us Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:45:56 +0000 In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sanchez worries how he will feed and clothe his family. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-opium-poppies-bloom-mexico-seeks-to-halt-heroin-trade Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:45:53 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/afghanistans-youth-wary-of-future-with-the-taliban Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:45:01 +0000 On a cold, grey Sunday morning, in a street lined with shuttered builders' yards and storage units, songs of prayer in the West African language of Yoruba ring out from a former warehouse that is now a church. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/african-churches-boom-in-londons-backstreets Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:45:31 +0000 More than two weeks after a projectile struck Mohammad An-Najjar's right eye during a Gaza border protest, the 12-year-old boy has only just learned that he will never see through it again. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-boy-injured-in-clashes-in-gaza Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:00:19 +0000 Gabriel Diaz de Tudanca is a 19-year-old Spaniard who, although born a girl, identified as male from early childhood. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gabriels-journey-a-transgender-spaniard-makes-the-change Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:45:28 +0000 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 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