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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters Father-of-three Alex Nunez (seen below) was returning from work in October during a military curfew imposed to curb violent protests in Chile's capital Santiago when, his family say, he was chased by three police officers who beat him badly. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/human-rights-abuse-accusations-proliferate-in-chile-unrest Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:39:12 +0000 Ousline Georges, 22 (pictured below), only started to take cycling seriously a year ago, wary of the many hurdles she faced such as the prohibitive cost of a decent bicycle and the treacherous roads in her home country of Haiti, the poorest in the Americas. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/haitis-cyclists-brave-protests-and-poor-roads-in-race-for-gold Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:45:30 +0000 His face weathered from years at sea, kimono-clad Japanese fisherman Masaichi Kawasaki kneels before an altar adorned with images of the Virgin Mary, crossing himself as he softly intones chants handed down through centuries. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japans-hidden-christians-fear-for-religions-fate Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:45:33 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chilean-police-officers-set-on-fire-by-molotov-cocktails Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:00:54 +0000 Under a soft winter sun in northern Norway, U.S. Marines train in the ice and snow as they learn how to fight in the freezing cold. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-norways-border-with-russia-unease-over-military-buildup Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:45:26 +0000 Hundreds of migrants from the Middle East and Asia living in a freezing camp in the forests of Bosnia are short of food and bedding and at growing risk as the bitter Balkan winter approaches, aid workers say. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/winter-poses-new-threat-to-migrants-in-bosnian-forest-camp Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:45:32 +0000 In the heart of Beirut's manicured downtown, something is stirring in a bullet-pocked concrete shell of a building known as "the Egg". https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/protests-bring-beiruts-abandoned-egg-back-to-life Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:45:34 +0000 Genex Tower (pictured below) is unmissable on the highway from Belgrade airport to the centre of the city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/yugoslavias-brutalist-relics-fascinate-the-instagram-generation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:24:52 +0000 On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine (pictured below) that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japan-builds-ethnic-harmony-tribute-to-indigenous-ainu Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:45:53 +0000 For Bill Elliott, who has sold flowers on the streets of London since he was 13, the promise of Brexit is fading. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-a-london-high-street-brexit-fatigue-sets-in Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:11:22 +0000 In a poor Buenos Aires suburb, Cristian Molina's jeans and denim jacket hide his unhealthily slight frame, his legacy from years of a poor diet that left him susceptible to the tuberculosis infection he contracted earlier this year, a disease of poverty that is making a comeback in Argentina. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/white-death-in-argentina-the-hunger-of-poverty-feeds-tuberculosis Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:45:18 +0000 Reduced to a string of stagnant mustard-coloured pools, fouled in places with pesticide runoff and stinking with the rotting carcasses of cattle and fish, the Darling River is running dry. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-turns-to-anger-as-australias-mighty-river-runs-dry Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:45:18 +0000 Arlette Kavugho (pictured holding a baby) was discharged from an Ebola ward in eastern Congo in March, but her troubles did not end there. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ebola-survivors-battle-grief-and-stigma-in-eastern-congo Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:45:33 +0000 Bolivian leader Evo Morales came to power in 2006 with a pledge to champion marginalized indigenous groups including his own important Andean tribe the Aymara, which helped carry him to the presidency. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/bolivias-aymara-torn-over-their-man-evo-as-he-clings-to-power Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:45:17 +0000 Irma Rivera is praying. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/migrant-mother-misses-home-but-prays-not-to-be-sent-back Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:45:01 +0000 Once a month, Mohamed Esimbo Matongu leaves his home in the western Congolese city of Mbandaka and hunts for wild animals. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-congo-part-time-hunters-boost-income-with-bushmeat Wed, 09 Oct 2019 06:45:13 +0000 Uminur Kuchukova, 61, could have retired years ago, but she continues to teach at this dying Russian village's once bustling school for the sake of its last pupil, a 9-year-old boy. When she leaves next year, the school will close. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/russian-villages-last-teacher-stays-on-for-her-one-remaining-pupil Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:45:04 +0000 The Moulin Rouge, the French cabaret famous for its high-kicking cancan dancers and flesh-exposing ostrich feather costumes, this week marks 130 years since it first opened its doors to audiences. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/keeping-the-show-on-track-at-the-moulin-rouge-for-130-years Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:45:26 +0000 China's southern city of Guangzhou is at the heart of plans to link a cluster of cities in the Pearl River Delta, including Hong Kong and Macau, into a Greater Bay Area rivalling Silicon Valley and Greater Tokyo as an economic hub by 2035. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinas-guangzhou-rides-economic-change-but-keeps-traditions Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:46:30 +0000 Few people step outside Anchar, a neighbourhood ringed by steel barricades and razor wire in Indian Kashmir, where police have imposed a weeks-long regionwide clampdown to stifle protests. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/barricades-and-books-in-restive-kashmir-neighbourhood Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:45:31 +0000 Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing field work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving mask. The news is not good. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-race-to-save-the-coral-of-the-caribbean Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:02:39 +0000 Chinese ceramic artist Feng Chengren works alongside the country's top leaders in his shop in eastern China. Their smooth faces, lightly tanned by the soil of nearby riverbanks, smile benignly at lines of customers. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/busts-of-leaders-a-hit-in-chinas-porcelain-capital Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:45:46 +0000 As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi Garud and her neighbour Siddharth Dhage, 10, are among a small group of children who take a 14 km (9 miles) return train journey from their village in India to fetch water. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-indian-children-who-take-a-train-to-collect-water Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:46:00 +0000 When Senator Jean Marie Ralph Fethiere pulled a pistol and started shooting outside the Haitian parliament on Monday, to disperse what he described as “violent militants”, Reuters photographer Andres Martinez Casares was prepared for trouble. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/pistol-packing-senators-confront-haitis-angry-opposition Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:41:40 +0000 Scientists are racing to read a rapidly melting archive of climate data going back thousands of years - the inside of Austria's Alpine glaciers. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/scientists-race-to-read-austrias-melting-climate-archive Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:45:39 +0000