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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2017 Thomson Reuters On the morning of October 17, two days before Richard Spencer, an avowed white nationalist and spokesman for the so-called alt-right, was to speak at the University of Florida, my wife asked if I had heard anything about it. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-neo-nazi-in-the-midst-of-a-protest Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:19:03 +0000 I first visited Camp No. 3 a few days after the Sept. 19 earthquake. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mexico-slum-a-decades-long-wait-for-quake-relief Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:45:39 +0000 This summer, a delegation of Republican climate activists visited Tangier Island, a speck of grassland in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, to try to convince its 450 residents to take climate change seriously. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/residents-of-tangier-island-reject-climate-victim-label Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:45:48 +0000 A gory fight to the death between snarling dogs and captured wild boars. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indonesian-villages-pit-wild-boars-against-dogs Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:39:50 +0000 Kenyan opposition lawmaker Caleb Amisi Luyai leans through the window of his car as tear gas billows out after police fired gas at a convoy of opposition politicians in the capital Nairobi on Oct. 13. Police used the tear gas to prevent the politicians from entering the centre of the capital, to enforce a ban on staging political protests there ahead of a repeat presidential election on Oct. 26. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tear-gas-in-nairobi Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:34:28 +0000 Sixteen days after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Maria de Lourdes Sandoval heard helicopters over her village of Bajura. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/bringing-aid-to-puerto-rico Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:44:52 +0000 For more than 1,000 years, the al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya south of Baghdad has been one of the hearts of Shi'ite Islamic scholarship, training the clerics who lead Shi'ite communities across the Muslim world. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-look-inside-the-heart-of-society-for-iraqs-shiites Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:17:24 +0000 Thailand is putting the finishing touches this month to a lavish five-day funeral ceremony in a final goodbye to its late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who helped shape the Southeast Asian nation for decades after World War Two. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/bidding-farewell-to-the-peoples-king Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:45:44 +0000 Rubble is all that remains of hundreds of houses rend asunder by the earthquake that struck Mexico in September, leaving owners lodging with relatives or friends, hoping their homes can be rebuilt or they can find new ones. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mexico-quake-in-the-ruins-of-home Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:50:54 +0000 In the Puerto Rican village of San Lorenzo, where Hurricane Maria destroyed the two-lane concrete bridge connecting residents with the outside world, 95-year-old Rosa Maria Torres (below) waits to be rescued. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/destroyed-bridge-imperils-village-cut-off-by-hurricane-maria Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:42:48 +0000 Just before the sun dipped into the Mediterranean on Saturday, rescuers spotted a tiny wooden boat on the horizon. It turned out to contain five young Libyans fleeing violence and turmoil who were waving their arms for help. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/libyans-flee-country-by-boat Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:15:40 +0000 William Jackson remembers the exodus vividly, when over 10,000 Protestants fled the west bank of Londonderry's River Foyle for the city's suburbs as Northern Ireland's "Troubles" erupted. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/northern-ireland-life-inside-the-fountain Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:39:17 +0000 Yosefina Tumanan, a resident of the remote Toraja region of Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, was thrilled to see her sister-in-law. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indonesians-celebrate-the-dead-in-ancient-ritual Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:45:58 +0000 At a studio in the Japanese capital, director Taro Kambe peers into a black headset to check a scene from his first video to make use of virtual reality technology. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japan-video-makers-explore-virtual-reality-for-adults Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:45:20 +0000 A man in "Red Army" garb hits the pavement during a simulated attack during a re-staging of part of the Long March. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/reliving-chinas-long-march Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:45:23 +0000 Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japans-mercury-poison-victims-fight-to-be-heard Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:45:00 +0000 A crying Rohingya mother in a yellow headscarf cradling her five-week-old infant son who died after their boat capsized is one of the most powerful Reuters images of Muslim refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rohingya-grieve-after-baby-dies-in-border-crossing Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:45:04 +0000 Informal mining in Brazil is seen by many as a scourge polluting the Amazon rainforest, poisoning indigenous tribes and robbing the nation of its wealth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazilians-toil-for-gold-in-illegal-amazon-mines Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:45:06 +0000 A handful of young Muscovites spend their spare time braving the risk of arrest, injury and even death to scale tall buildings. Their motivation is simple: to feel more alive. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/moscow-rooftop-explorers-defy-death-and-gravity Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:45:55 +0000 After more than a year of separation Syrian refugee Ammar Hammasho was finally, though briefly, reunited with his wife and four children through a chain link fence topped with barbed wire in Cyprus. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/syrian-family-shares-kisses-through-fence Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:15:35 +0000 Under a rare blue summer sky on London's Westminster Bridge, Jiachun Lin poses in a flowing white lace gown and windtossed veil with her fiance Da Song. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/flights-camera-action-chinese-couples-strike-a-pose Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:50:53 +0000 Ibrahim Ghunaim, or MC Gaza as he likes to be called, raps to a different beat in an Islamist-ruled Palestinian enclave rocked by internal conflict and three wars with Israel over the past decade. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gaza-rapper-hopes-to-make-his-mark Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:45:05 +0000 Before the South Sudanese rebels attacked the town of Kaya, they handed out supplies - a ragged strip of red cloth to identify themselves to each other as friendly forces, a packet of biscuits, and two precious magazines of ammunition per fighter. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/short-on-supplies-south-sudan-rebels-fight-on Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:45:32 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/kabul-mosque-attack-four-year-old-called-to-safety Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:14:08 +0000 Her bruised eyes still swollen shut, Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be four or five, doesn't yet know that her parents, five siblings and uncle were killed when an air strike flattened their home in Yemen's capital. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/girl-survives-air-strike-that-kills-her-family Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:34:42 +0000