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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters 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 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 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 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 Near midnight, a group of six Guajajara tribesmen with their faces painted for battle listen to the rumble of heavy trucks about 19 miles (30 km) from their village in the Amazon rainforest. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fighting-fire-with-fire-amazon-forest-guardians-stalk-loggers Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:51:58 +0000 From soon after sunrise, a group of volunteers gathers every day on Indonesia's portion of Borneo island to throw themselves into the desperate fight against the worst forest fires in years. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indonesias-firefighters-on-frontline-of-borneos-forest-blazes Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:16:14 +0000 While playing for Venezuela in baseball's Little League World Series in the United States last month, 12-year-old Adrian Salcedo ate tacos and Chick-fil-A, donned a virtual reality headset to envision himself hitting home runs in big league ballparks and marvelled at the lush grass of the fields. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-venezuelan-ball-players-wanted-to-stay-in-us Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:45:00 +0000 Zanzibar's traditional healers with their toolkits of herbs, holy scriptures and massages are being registered by authorities keen to regulate the practitioners who treat everything from depression to hernias. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tanzanias-zanzibar-begins-to-register-traditional-healers Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:45:52 +0000 First, the scouts saw a footprint, then a suspected spy from a rival ethnic group, scuttling off into the bush. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/when-raiders-menace-in-northern-kenya-grab-your-guns Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:50:44 +0000 With migrants only allowed one backpack each on the smugglers' boats that carry them from Turkey to Greece, Ahmed, his wife Hanin and her family packed a few possessions and sent the rest of their belongings to friends. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-storm-is-coming-one-migrant-familys-bid-to-reach-europe Tue, 10 Sep 2019 06:45:47 +0000 His people's link to the land goes back to biblical times, says the comics illustrator. His neighbour, a farmer, says the land belonged to his ancestors and has been stolen. One is an Israeli settler, the other a Palestinian living across the road. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/israels-settlers-and-the-palestinians-they-live-among Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:45:20 +0000 Isaac Callizaya (pictured below), 39, grew up with the sound of waves lapping on the shores of Lake Titicaca, a giant body of water on the border between Bolivia and Peru that at 3,800 meters (12,500 ft) above sea level is the highest navigable lake in the world. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/lake-titicaca-once-considered-andean-deity-faces-pollution-threat Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:45:07 +0000 Icebergs float like doomed islands past the small boat as it makes its way through a fjord filled with the slush of a melting glacier. Occasionally, as the warming waters dissolve the bottom of one of the icebergs, it becomes top-heavy and does a somersault, as if it were playing instead of dying. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-climate-change-frontier-in-the-worlds-northernmost-town Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:45:23 +0000 Japan may have been seen as a leftfield choice to host the Rugby World Cup but if you want a sense of the country's long love affair with the game, you could do worse than to get along to Tokyo's Fuwaku club. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japans-veteran-maulers-happy-to-die-in-their-boots Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:54:59 +0000 Monticello, the expansive brick home of Thomas Jefferson, sits atop a hill overlooking farmland, trees and the University of Virginia, the institution founded by the third U.S. president. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/built-by-my-family-americas-grand-buildings-built-by-slaves Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:45:05 +0000 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