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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2019 Thomson Reuters 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 A night at a bar is interrupted by a power outage, going to a baseball game is prohibitively expensive, and a trip to a nearby beach requires months of savings. But many Venezuelans have not given up on finding ways to smile. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/venezuelans-seek-joy-amid-the-chaos Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:45:37 +0000 Almost two decades separate the traumatic experiences of Michelle Wheeler and Chad Williams, who both survived mass shootings. But as they shared their stories one evening last July, 20 years seemed to evaporate in the crisp Colorado air. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/twenty-years-after-columbine-survivors-help-others-heal Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:45:20 +0000 From the dusty town in Honduras where thousands are fleeing violence to the currents of the Rio Grande, Reuters photographers walked, waded and flew to capture images of thousands of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-a-dusty-town-to-a-flowing-river-how-reuters-won-a-pulitzer Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:50:06 +0000 Maria Jofresse cannot find her two young daughters' graves, though she helped dig them herself. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/lives-washed-away-a-mothers-loss-in-mozambique Wed, 10 Apr 2019 06:45:08 +0000 On a small farm on the outskirts of Christchurch in New Zealand, Omar Nabi digs a small hole and sharpens a knife as he prepares to slaughter a sheep as a blessing to his father – a victim of the mass killings at the Al Noor mosque. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/lives-forever-changed-by-christchurch-shootings Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:45:58 +0000 A decade after the Macuxi people won a bloody legal battle to expel rice planters from their reservation in a remote part of Brazil, their hold over ancestral lands has come under threat again from new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazil-tribal-lands-under-new-threat-from-farmers-miners Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:45:54 +0000 The thing about an old rusty tractor, said cockle-picker Tony McClure, is that even in the sea air, it will start. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tea-bingo-and-cockles-my-journey-to-brexit-on-sea Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:45:52 +0000 Huang Wensi narrows her eyes and swings her fists towards her opponent, delivering a series of sharp punches before the referee finally separates the two, who have been duelling for seven rounds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinese-boxer-trounces-stereotypes-to-become-queen-of-the-ring Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:45:13 +0000 Just a 20-minute drive from downtown Lisbon lies Cova da Moura, one of Portugal's poorest and most neglected neighbourhoods, but whose immigrants from Cape Verde are transforming the area's image. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/vibrant-cape-verdean-culture-draws-people-to-lisbon-outskirt Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:45:14 +0000 In the build-up to the one-year anniversary of the Gaza border protests that opened up a deadly new front in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Reuters photographer Dylan Martinez visited Gaza for the first time. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/capturing-24-hours-in-gaza-one-hour-at-a-time Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:57:43 +0000 Without work or residency permits in Turkey and unable to renew their Chinese passports, Qurbanjan Nourmuhammed and his family live in uncertainty in Istanbul, cut off from their son who returned to Xinjiang three years ago. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/without-papers-uighurs-fear-for-their-future-in-turkey Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:47:44 +0000 Living with a scarcity of water is becoming the norm for many Venezuelans. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/water-is-now-gold-for-desperate-venezuelans Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:10:25 +0000 As Yemen’s war grinds into its fifth year with peace efforts stalling, ten-year-old Afaf's father sees little hope he will be able to give his starving daughter the food or healthcare she needs. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hunger-stalks-yemens-remote-villages-after-four-years-of-war Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:45:31 +0000 A few months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Maria was waiting to see a doctor at a London hospital when an elderly English woman told her to go back to her native Romania. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/an-immigrants-tale-leaving-britain-to-escape-brexit-hostility Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:48:20 +0000