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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2023 Thomson Reuters Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medicines. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/sri-lankas-cancer-patients-struggle-amid-economic-chaos Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:45:53 +0000 Fabrizio Cardinali, 72, does not crave the bright city lights. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/no-energy-worries-for-italys-harmonious-walnut-tribe Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:45:04 +0000 A smoky haze hangs over India's northern plains and its capital, New Delhi, every year as winter sets in, raising fears for the health of many millions of people as authorities order fixes that do little to clear the air. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/air-pollution-blights-indias-teeming-capital Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:45:15 +0000 Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-ukrainian-womans-harrowing-quest-to-find-her-family Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:45:08 +0000 Almost three years of pandemic restrictions have been hard for 23-year-old Chinese villager Zu Wenbao, but thanks to Beijing-based Chen's Studio, music has become his saving grace. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/music-is-their-language-school-gives-autistic-chinese-youth-a-voice Fri, 02 Dec 2022 03:00:34 +0000 For displaced villagers living near the border of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, the war in Ukraine has brought back terrifying memories of Russian bombardments. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/bordering-georgias-breakaway-regions-villagers-fear-russias-next-steps Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:59:32 +0000 Abbas Elwan drilled well after well in a desperate bid to find water for his family's parched farmlands in southern Iraq. After yet another attempt failed in August, he took a gun from the kitchen of their mud house and slipped into the night. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/middle-easts-fertile-crescent-dries-up-as-rains-fail Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:45:26 +0000 On a soccer pitch in a central London park, Sisterhood Football Club - a Muslim women's team - is making a substitution. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-sisterhood-of-muslim-women-uniting-football-and-faith-in-london-team Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:45:06 +0000 A boat bobbing on the Gulf of Thailand carried the ashes of four-year-old Pattanan Mumklang. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/to-the-sea-the-final-journey-of-a-victim-of-thailands-nursery-massacre Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:00:31 +0000 Near Kunri, a southern Pakistani town known as Asia's chili capital, 40-year old farmer Leman Raj rustles through dried plants looking for any of the bright red chillis in his largely destroyed crop which may have survived. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/pakistani-farmers-fight-a-losing-battle-to-save-chili-crop Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:45:23 +0000 “I heard this bang and I thought it was a bird scarer," Reuters photographer Peter Nicholls recalls, describing the moment a man fire-bombed the gates of a centre for processing migrants in the English port of Dover and then took his own life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fire-bombing-of-a-seaside-english-migrant-centre Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:21:14 +0000 At a village clinic in central Congo, separated from the world by a tangle of waterways and forests, six-year-old Angelika Lifafu (above) grips her dress and screams as nurses in protective suits pick at one of hundreds of boils that trouble her delicate skin. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-africas-monkeypox-outbreak-sickness-and-death-go-undetected Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:45:38 +0000 Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding threaten more and more farmland. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-seas-rise-bangladesh-farmers-revive-floating-farms Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:45:27 +0000 Something clicked instantly for Zero Chan when she first set foot on the island of Peng Chau, a short ferry ride from Hong Kong's central business district, at a time when she was feeling burnt out and recovering from illness. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/burned-out-young-people-in-hong-kong-are-escaping-to-the-peacefulisland-of-peng-chau Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:00:41 +0000 In the densely populated Gaza Strip, a battle for space is pitting the living against the dead as homeless squatters settle in the area's cemeteries while authorities grapple with the growing demand for new housing. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gaza-struggles-to-accommodate-the-living-and-the-dead-as-population-grows Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:45:01 +0000 Each time Juan Briones descends deep into the ground of northern Mexico to dig for coal he knows he must balance earning a living and avoiding death. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/deep-underground-mexican-coal-miners-remember-those-who-never-came-back Sat, 01 Oct 2022 11:00:18 +0000 The specter of hunger hangs over Brazil's presidential race this year like few before it. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-grocery-bills-soar-hungry-brazilians-may-seal-bolsonaros-fate Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:45:07 +0000 Manki Lugo (above) no longer remembers how many dead bodies she has found in the seven years she has searched across northern Mexico for her son. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-mexico-more-loved-ones-go-missing-their-families-keep-searching Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:00:07 +0000 Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada. Like other Inuit, he learned to hunt seals and fish from his father and other men. They would skim over the sea ice, first on dog sleds and then, by the time Holwell started accompanying them, on gasoline-powered skidoos. Holwell wants this life – and freedom – for his children. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/climate-change-means-the-inuit-do-what-theyve-always-done-adapt Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:45:49 +0000 For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by runaway slaves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/black-brazilians-in-remote-quilombo-hamlets-stand-up-to-be-counted Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:00:34 +0000 The death of Queen Elizabeth has drawn people from across Britain and the world to queue through the streets of London to pay their respects - a melting pot of nationalities, religions, ages and backgrounds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-queens-queue-a-portrait-of-our-times Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:00:55 +0000 Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-seeks-to-trace-thousands-of-orphans-scattered-by-war Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:19:32 +0000 In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/streaming-to-survive-thailands-out-of-work-elephants-in-crisis Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:00:35 +0000 Shirtless and waist-deep in the dark waters of Cuba’s palm-speckled Zapata Swamp, researcher Etiam Perez releases a baby crocodile confiscated from illegal hunters back into the wild. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cuban-scientists-race-to-save-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-crocodiles Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:00:17 +0000 Firefighters in Ukraine used to have the protocols, the experience and the kit to deal with whatever blaze they encountered. When the war with Russia broke out, that all changed. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-firefighters-adapt-to-working-in-war-zone Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:00:57 +0000