http://widerimage.reuters.com/ In-depth visual reports from across the world by Reuters, the world's largest news agency. Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters More than 2,000 Central American migrants seeking to settle in the United States have given up and accepted free rides home under a 10-month-old program funded by the U.S. government and run by a United Nations agency, according to a U.N. official. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/us-government-funds-free-rides-from-mexico-for-migrants Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:44:29 +0000 Indonesia's crackdown on imported foreign waste has upset the village of Bangun, where residents say they earn more money sorting through piles of garbage than growing rice in once-lush paddy fields. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cash-for-trash-indonesia-village-banks-on-waste-recycling Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:45:08 +0000 In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok, and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thailands-stealthy-self-styled-snake-wrangler Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:45:04 +0000 The French soldiers seeking out jihadists in central Mali's savannahs were prepared for the sandstorms, the thunderstorms, the lack of anything resembling a road and the need to tow vehicles whose wheels kept getting stuck in floodplains. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/french-troops-in-mali-campaign-face-storms-mud-mistrust Tue, 13 Aug 2019 02:00:31 +0000 For decades the Equestrian and Racing Club has given upper-crust Sudanese the chance to learn horse riding and watch horse racing in a shady compound set apart from the surrounding urban bustle of the capital Khartoum. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/khartoums-equestrian-club-struggles-amid-sudan-upheaval Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:00:26 +0000 Two years ago, America’s white nationalist movement stunned the country. Neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, had turned deadly when a far-right protester drove a car through a crowd, killing one and injuring dozens. Some movement leaders regrouped. Instead of stoking outrage, they set out to build support with another tack: Looking normal. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/el-paso-attack-upends-white-nationalist-normalization-plan Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:04:04 +0000 Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but also a past that has haunted his family for generations. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/retracing-a-slave-route-in-ghana-400-years-on Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:45:21 +0000 After U.S. President Donald Trump described Maryland's largest city as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" and a "very dangerous & filthy place" last weekend, Baltimore resident Blondina Bean had mixed feelings about his tweets. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/baltimore-pushes-back-against-trump-while-acknowledging-problems Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:45:44 +0000 A cluster of flowers and candles marks the spot where Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed in a park in east London in an attack with no obvious motive. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/makeshift-shrines-honour-victims-of-british-knife-crime Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:45:51 +0000 Ledy Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/guatemalan-mother-begs-soldier-to-let-her-enter-us Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:35:12 +0000 Fending for herself after leaving a husband who kidnapped her and then losing two sons in Syria's war, Leila Achishvili (pictured below) has fought hard to secure her independence in fiercely patriarchal north-east Georgia. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-georgian-valley-war-scarred-women-battle-tradition Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:45:25 +0000 A year since Greece's deadliest wildfire tore through coastal towns near Athens, killing 102 people, the road to normalcy for its survivors is long and dotted with burned down homes and barren land. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-year-since-greeces-deadliest-wildfire-wounds-remain-open Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:27:40 +0000 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 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 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 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