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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters Opened in 1993 with hopes of rejuvenating one of its poorest neighbourhoods, Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station is now commonly referred to as "the Monstrosity". https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tel-avivs-central-bus-station-a-grimy-commuter-hub-with-a-soul Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:45:28 +0000 Young people in Hong Kong have been at the forefront of violent protests over a proposed extradition law that have shaken the city and angered Beijing. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/frustration-of-surviving-pricey-hong-kong-stirs-protest-anger Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:45:14 +0000 After six years abroad, Khadija Saleh returned to Sudan in March to join protesters in the streets demanding change. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/beaten-and-abused-sudans-women-bear-scars-of-fight-for-freedom Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:41:26 +0000 High walls around the neighbourhoods of Pakistan's embattled Hazara community in the southwestern city of Quetta are designed to protect them from extremist militants, but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/under-siege-fear-and-defiance-mark-life-for-pakistans-hazaras Thu, 04 Jul 2019 22:45:05 +0000 For Ma Junxiao (pictured below), an ethnic Hui Muslim farmer from remote western China, the daily climb up sheer mountain slopes to look for a tiny fungus is vital to his family's subsistence. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-chinese-mountains-get-hotter-cure-all-fungus-dwindles Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:45:44 +0000 The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil, becoming a global symbol of the perils of migration, said she urged her son not to leave, fearing danger would meet him on the long journey north. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-told-him-not-to-go-mother-of-drowned-migrant-laments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:52:37 +0000 Talk of Middle East peace is in the air again, as politicians are set to gather in Bahrain to launch the latest in a long line of initiatives to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/scars-on-middle-east-landscape-bear-witness-to-past-peace-failures Sat, 22 Jun 2019 18:10:06 +0000 A retiree worried about his granddaughter's future in Pinellas County, Florida. A factory worker in Racine County, Wisconsin, who doubts politicians will improve her life as a single mother. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-deciders-meet-the-voters-defining-americas-politics Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:45:06 +0000 Mothers dragged their children across three countries, trekking around border checkpoints and crossing rivers in waist-high water. Others were conned by fake travel agents, or robbed by bandits. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/venezuelan-mothers-children-in-tow-rush-to-migrate Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:30:08 +0000 When a third-grade teacher from Texas asked her mostly 8-year-old students what they wanted to be when they grow up, one of them wrote on the white board: "drag queen." https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/nine-year-old-helps-teach-educators-about-queer-youth Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:45:14 +0000 A taxi dropped Maroly Bastardo and her two small children by a cemetery not far from the shore in northeast Venezuela. She still had time to change her mind. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/they-fled-venezuelas-crisis-by-boat-then-vanished Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:45:43 +0000 When Ali Adnan, 27, (pictured below), fled his home in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2015 and arrived in Denmark, a local Danish family took him in and helped him gain his footing in a country he knew very little about. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/failed-asylum-seekers-wait-in-rural-danish-departure-centre Thu, 30 May 2019 06:45:36 +0000 Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil's vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazils-mangroves-on-the-front-line-of-climate-change Tue, 28 May 2019 10:45:09 +0000 When Gaelle Asheri first started playing soccer in the dirt streets near her home in Cameroon's capital, she was the only girl on the informal neighbourhood teams which used stones for goal posts and kept score by chalking results on a wall. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cameroonian-girls-defy-prejudice-to-pursue-soccer-dreams Wed, 22 May 2019 07:15:54 +0000 It had only been a week since Mohammad Ali Acampong finished renovating his house when bombs and bullets struck Marawi City. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/marawis-ruins-a-reminder-of-islamic-states-devastating-reach Mon, 20 May 2019 22:45:58 +0000 In Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, a lane that used to be alive with the sound of children playing is silent. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/what-they-left-behind-sri-lankas-easter-sunday-bombing-victims Fri, 17 May 2019 04:45:03 +0000 Considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, the central province of Henan and its 100 million-strong population typifies China's transformative yet often tumultuous economic ascent. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinas-slowing-economy-the-view-from-the-henan-heartland Fri, 17 May 2019 00:15:33 +0000 Seconds before William Lopez (pictured below) was set to be connected to a dialysis machine at a state-run clinic in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo in April, the power went out. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/venezuela-dialysis-patients-face-uncertain-fate-after-power-cuts Wed, 15 May 2019 10:45:34 +0000 As snow blanketed African markets, churches and graves in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in February, members of the Liberian community were praying fervently that this would not be their last winter in the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/liberians-grapple-with-potential-loss-of-us-legal-status Tue, 14 May 2019 10:45:37 +0000 Centenarian World War Two veteran Nikolay Bagayev will be among Russians across the country commemorating the anniversary of the war's end on Thursday. He told his story to his granddaughter, Reuters Moscow bureau reporter Olesya Astakhova. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/russian-ww2-veteran-100-calls-for-peace-on-victory-day Wed, 08 May 2019 17:15:19 +0000 A young protester, his arms outstretched and his head thrown completely back, is struck from behind by a Venezuelan National Guard riot control vehicle and pulled underneath. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/one-venezuelan-protesters-brush-with-death Fri, 03 May 2019 22:52:09 +0000 Yuuka Hasumi put high school in Japan on hold and flew to South Korea in February to try her chances at becoming a K-pop star, even if that means long hours of vocal and dance training, no privacy, no boyfriend, and even no phone. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/k-pop-stardom-lures-japanese-youth-to-korea-despite-diplomatic-chill Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:45:53 +0000 In the small fishing town of Thyboron on the northwestern coast of Denmark, many fishermen worry the British waters they have become increasingly dependent on will be out of reach when Britain leaves the European Union. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/danish-fishing-communities-fear-brexit-could-sink-them Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:45:32 +0000 During initial tests of their 8.1-metre (27-foot) tall reusable rocket, Chinese engineers from LinkSpace, a start-up led by China's youngest space entrepreneur, used a Kevlar tether to ensure its safe return. Just in case. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinas-start-ups-go-small-in-age-of-shoebox-satellites Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:45:40 +0000 Wherever Japan's royals go, there too goes Fumiko Shirataki: in summer heat and winter cold, to the ocean and to the mountains. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/superfan-of-japans-royals-has-followed-them-for-decades Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:31 +0000