SEPTEMBER 2017 - Pictures of the day - Sept.12 - Sept.15, 2017

SEPTEMBER 2017
Pictures of the day
Sept.12 -15, 2017
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SEPTEMBER 2017
Pictures of the day
Sept. 12 – 15 , 2017
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Shattered by war, Sunni Arabs
despair over future in Iraq
In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, Younes Abdullah, left, and his nephew Rakan Hamid Jasim stand inside the Chamakor camp
for displaced people in Northern Iraq. They both want to return to their homes in the town of Zummar, currently under Kurdish
control, but Kurdish security forces don't allow them to return. The two relatives lived under Islamic State rule for almost three
years. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 photo, a man walks with a child through the
Hassan Sham camp in Northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Sunday, July 25, 2017 photo, the shadows
of two boys are seen on the side of a tent inside
the Khazer camp for displaced people in
Northern Iraq. A poem is written in the side of
the tent: "Ask me who I am, I am talking for
myself. I am the one who doesn't have a house
or a home. I'm the one without relatives and a
country. I used to have a house protecting me
from the treason of time. In a moment this
house collapsed and there's something left for
me. I had to choose between the flames of war
and the consequences of displacement. I chose
displacement and the tent became my home."
(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Saturday, July 22, 2017 photo, a
family gets water inside the Hassan
Sham camp in northern Iraq. (AP
Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 photo, three year-old Saja Salih sleeps in her
tent in the Hassan Sham camp for displaced people in Northern Iraq. Saja, her
sister and both parents can't return to their home in Mosul because it was
destroyed by an air strike. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017
photo, Abu Abdullah Fathi from
west Mosul sits inside his tent in
the Chamokor camp in northern
Iraq. Abu Abdullah and his wife
and five children can't return to
their home in the Tanak
neighborhood after it was
destroyed by an air strike. (AP
Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Saturday, July 22, 2017 photo,
displaced Sunni Arabs play a game in
the Hassan Sham camp in northern
Iraq. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017
photo, seven year-old Ragad Ibrahim
from Mosul laughs while standing next
to her tent in the Hassan Sham camp
in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Bram
Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, seven
year-old Omar from Mosul flies a kite in the
Chamakor camp for displaced people in
northern Iraq. Many displaced can't return
to their homes in Iraq's second largest city
as their houses are destroyed by air strikes.
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, a boy stands
in front of a fence of the Chamakor camp in
northern Iraq. Kurdish security forces who
control the camp aren't allowing Sunni Arabs to
return to their homes, which are now under
Kurdish control. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017
photo, a girl enters her tent at night
in the Hassan Sham camp for
displaced people in northern Iraq.
Text from the AP news story,
Shattered by war, Sunni Arabs
despair over future in Iraq, by Hamza
Hendawi.
Associated Press writers Salar Salim
in Irbil, Iraq and Sinan Salaheddin in
Baghdad contributed to this report.
Photos by Bram Janssen
GALLERY PHOTOS

Sept. 12 , 2017

A man swims in a swollen creek as floodwaters
continue to rise due to Tropical Depression
Maring in Manila, Philippines, on Tuesday,
Sept. 12, 2017. Classes in schools and work in
government offices have been suspended in
the capital and nearby provinces as heavy rains
create flooding in low-lying areas. (AP
Photo/Aaron Favila)
Sept 12 , 2017

Young boys collect cans amid the rubble in
Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017.
The recapture of eastern Aleppo in
December 2016, one of the deadliest
episodes of the Syrian civil war, was a
landmark victory for Assad's forces in the
conflict, now in its seventh year, but it left
the area in ruins. (AP Photo/Max Black)
Sept 12 , 2017

Maritza Garrido Lecca, a ballet
dancer who hid Abimael Guzman,
former leader of Shining Path in
her apartment in the 1990s, is
freed from prison in Lima, Peru.
REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
Sept. 12 , 2017

Passengers are seen inside a tram in Kiev,
Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoSept. 12 , 2017

The Proton-M booster blasts off with the Spanish Hispasat�s
Amazonas 5 communication satellite at the Baikonur Cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Sept. 12 , 2017

Fashion model and former refugee Halima Aden, who is breaking
boundaries as the first hijab wearing model gracing magazine
covers and walking in high profile runway shows poses during a
shoot at a studio in New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Sept. 12 , 2017

Australian artist Scott Marsh completes a mural
artwork featuring the likeness of former Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott marrying himself in a
wedding dress in the Sydney suburb of Redfern,
Australia. AAP/Dean Lewins/via REUTERS
Sept. 12 , 2017

People rest at a glass dome with a greenhouse (or
"Glass bark") at the newly opened Zaryadye Park
off Red Square in central Moscow, Russia.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Sept. 12 , 2017

A man walks back home in the darkness as many areas of Miami still without
electricity after Hurricane Irma strikes Florida, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Sept. 12 , 2017

Wrecked boats that have come
ashore are pictured in Coconut
Grove following Hurricane Irma in
Miami. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Sept. 12 , 2017

Residents wade and ride on pedicabs along a
partially flooded road, in Las Pinas Metro
Manila as a storm sweeps across the main
Luzon island, Philippines. REUTERS/Erik De
Castro
Sept. 12 , 2017

People collect water from a broken
tube after Hurricane Irma caused
flooding and a blackout in Havana,
Cuba. REUTERS/Stringer
Sept. 12 , 2017

Boats wrecked by Hurricane Irma are seen from a plane in Sint
Maarten, Netherlands. REUTERS/Alvin Baez
Sept. 12 , 2017

Irma's trail of devastation in Florida
Wrecked boats that have come
ashore are pictured in Coconut Grove
following Hurricane Irma in Miami.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Sept. 12 , 2017

Local residents look inside a
collapsed coastal house in Vilano
Beach. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Sept. 12 , 2017

A man wades out of flood waters from
his house in Bonita Springs.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Sept. 12 , 2017

Sandra Guzman, left, with her daughter
Maria Valentine Romero, right, and their
friend Rosa Pulito, back, are pictured in
front of Sandra's mobile home in
Immokalee. REUTERS/Stephen Yang
Sept. 12 , 2017

A destroyed trailer park in
Plantation Key in the Florida
Keys. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Sept. 12 , 2017

Robert Market, 82, sits in a golf cart in
his front yard filled with fallen trees,
flood waters, and debris, following
Hurricane Irma, near Jerome.
REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Sept. 12 , 2017

Two days after Hurricane Irma,
Rodriquez Benjamin, 86, stands in
the door of his room waiting for
help to arrive, without power,
food, or water at at Cypress Run,
an assisted living facility, in
Immokalee. REUTERS/Bryan
Woolston
Sept. 12 , 2017

A woman takes a photo of a buoy that
washed up in Vilano Beach.
REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Sept. 12 , 2017

Women walk on a damaged beach
access ramp in Ponte Vedra Beach.
REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Sept. 12 , 2017

Apple unveils iPhone X
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide
Marketing, Phil Schiller, introduces the iPhone
X. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Apple Senior Vice President of
Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller,
shows the iPhone X and wireless
charging base. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Marketing, Phil Schiller, shows Animoji during a
launch event. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Marketing, Phil Schiller, introduces the iPhone 8
with wireless charging. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Marketing, Phil Schiller, introduces the iPhone 8.
REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Jeff Williams, Apple COO, talks
about the Apple Watch Series 3.
REUTERS/Stephen Lam
Sept. 12 , 2017

Apple Showcase
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior
vice president of worldwide
marketing, announces
features of the new iPhone X
at the Steve Jobs Theater on
the new Apple campus on
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in
Cupertino, Calif. (AP
Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Sept. 12, 2017

Actor Jennifer Lawrence arrives on
the red carpet for the film
"Mother!". REUTERS/Mark BlinchSept. 12 , 2017

Reuters / Monday, September 11, 2017
Director Angelina Jolie arrives on the red carpet with
her six children (L-R) Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt,
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt, Shiloh Jolie-
Pitt, and Zahara Jolie-Pitt for the film "First They Killed
My Father". REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Sept. 12 , 2017

Rosamund Pike arrives on the red
carpet for the film "Hostiles".
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Sept. 12 , 2017

Actress Katherine Waterston
arrives on the red carpet for the
film "The Current War".
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Sept. 12 , 2017

Buildings damaged in Saint Martin. REUTERS/Alvin Baez
Saint Martin devastated by Irma
Sept. 12 , 2017

People line up to board a plane and leave the
island after it was devastated by Hurricane Irma,
in Simpson Bay, Saint Martin. REUTERS/Alvin
Baez
Sept. 12 , 2017

Houses destroyed in Simpson Bay, Saint
Martin. REUTERS/Alvin Baez
Sept. 12 , 2017

People sit aboard a plane to leave the island
in Simpson Bay, Saint Martin. REUTERS/Alvin
Baez
Sept. 12 , 2017

Dogs are evacuated from the Dutch
part of Saint Martin. Netherlands
Ministry of Defence/via REUTERS
Sept. 12 , 2017

An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman
touches the shore after crossing the
Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat
through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir
Dwip, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Danish
Siddiqui
Rohingya flee Myanmar violence
Sept. 12 , 2017

Smoke is seen on Myanmar's side of
border as an exhausted Rohingya
refugee woman is carried to the shore
after crossing the Bangladesh-
Myanmar border by boat through the
Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip,
Bangladesh. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Sept. 12 , 2017

Rohingya refugees walk on the
shore after crossing the
Bangladesh-Myanmar border by
boat through the Bay of Bengal in
Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Sept. 12 , 2017

Rohingya refugee children are
stopped by volunteers as they
jostle to receive food distributed
by local organizations in
Kutupalong, Bangladesh.
Sept. 12 , 2017

Librarian Lisette Canals sits at the
entrance of her home with her dog
next to Cuban flags hung up to dry
after Hurricane Irma caused flooding
and a blackout, in Havana, Cuba.
REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Sept. 12 , 2017

Hurricane Irma
Alfonso Jose pulls his son Alfonso
Jr., 2, in a cooler with his wife
Cristina Ventura as they wade
through their flooded street to
reach an open convenience store in
the wake of Hurricane Irma in
Bonita Springs, Fla., Tuesday, Sept.
12, 2017. (AP Photo/David
Goldman)
Sept. 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Boats sit on a sea wall near the
Naval Station in the aftermath of
Hurricane Irma on Tuesday, Sept.
12, 2017, in Key West, Fla. (AP
Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Sept. 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Children's bicycles are flooded outside
a home as Ezequiel Cruz retrieves
belongings in the aftermath of
Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, Fla.,
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (AP
Photo/David Goldman)
Sept. 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Jean Chatelier gets a ride from a
passing motorist after walking
through a flooded street from
Hurricane Irma to retrieve his
uniform from his house to return
to work today at a supermarket in
Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. Chatelier walked about a
mile each way in knee-high water
as a Publix supermarket was
planning on reopening to the
public today. "I want to go back to
work. I want to help," said
Chatelier. (AP Photo/David
Goldman)
Sept. 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Cherie Ethier sits in her
mobile home with her pets
surrounded by floodwater,
in the Marco Naples RV
Resort in the aftermath of
Hurricane Irma, in Naples,
Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. (AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert)
Sept. 12, 2017

France Hurricanes
View of the partially buildings
destroyed by Irma during the
visit of France's President
Emmanuel Macron in the
French Caribbean islands of
St. Martin, Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. Macron is in the French-
Dutch island of St. Martin,
where 10 people were killed
on the French side and four on
the Dutch. (AP
Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)
Sept. 12, 2017

France Protests
Steelworkers from the
ArcelorMittal steel plant in Fos-
sur-Mer burn flares during a
nationwide day of protest
against government labor law,
in Marseille, southern France,
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017.
President Emmanuel Macron's
presidency is facing its first big
public test, as unions hold
nationwide protests against
changes to labor laws that they
fear corrode hard-fought job
security. The prominent CGT
union is leading Tuesday's
protests, calling for strikes
across transport and other
public sector businesses and
planning some 180
demonstrations. (AP
Photo/Claude Paris)
Sept. 12, 2017

France Protests
Demonstrators take cover after clashing
with police during a protest march against
President Emmanuel Macron's new pro-
business labor policies in Paris, Tuesday,
Sept. 12, 2017. Macron's presidency is
facing its first big public test, as unions
hold nationwide protests against changes
to labor laws that they fear corrode job
security. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Sept. 12, 2017

France Wine
A worker carries red grapes in a burgundy
vineyard during the grape harvest season, in
Volnay, central France, Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Sept. 12, 2017

Guatemala Corruption
Felipe Sarate Ixcajaya, an indigenous
authority from the town of
Momostenango, stands outside
Congress during a protest against
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales in
Guatemala City, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017.
Lawmakers voted against lifting the
president's immunity from prosecution,
hours after a congressional commission
recommended the protection be
withdrawn to open the way for a
possible trial on campaign-finance
accusations. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Sept. 12, 2017

An indigenous woman rests after
walking during protests against
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales
in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. Lawmakers voted against lifting
the President's immunity from
prosecution, hours after a
congressional commission
accusations. (AP Photo/Moises
Castillo)
Sept. 12, 2017

Demosntrators against Guatemalan
President Jimmy Morales take cover
from the rain next to a police line at
an entrance of the Congress building
in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. On Monday lawmakers voted
against lifting President's immunity
from prosecution, hours after a
congressional commission
accusations. (AP Photo/Moises
Castillo)
Sept. 12, 2017

Syria
A man crosses the road with his bicycle
in what was once a rebel-controlled
area in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 12,
2017. The recapture of eastern Aleppo
in December 2016, one of the deadliest
episodes of the Syrian civil war, was a
landmark victory for Assad's forces in
the conflict, now in its seventh year, but
it left the area in ruins. (AP
Photo/Nataliya Vasilyeva)
Sept. 12, 2017

Reuters / Tuesday,
September 12, 2017
The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft
carrying the crew of crew
Joe Acaba and Mark Vande
Hei of the the U.S., and
Alexander Misurkin of
Russia blasts off to the
International Space Station
from the launchpad at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan.
REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Sept. 12, 2017

Argentina Israel Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is silhouetted against
a facade of the San Martin Palace
of the Argentine foreign ministry,
in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017.
Netanyahu is on a two-day official
visit to Argentina. (AP
Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Sept. 12, 2017

Greece Tanker Pollution
A plastic chair stands on a polluted
beach by a big oil spillage on the
island of Salamina, near Athens, on
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Greece's
merchant marine minister says
clean-up crews are working to
contain pollution caused after the
small tanker Agia Zoni II sank off
Salamina on Sunday, Sept. 10, with
a cargo of 2,200 tons of fuel oil and
370 tons of marine gas oil. (AP
Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Sept. 12, 2017

Oil that leaked from a small oil
tanker that sank on September 10, is
seen on a beach on Salamina island,
Greece. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis
Sept. 12, 2017

Two workers stand on a beach covered with
oil that leaked from a small oil tanker that
sank on September 10 off the shores of
Salamina island, in Piraeus, Greece.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Sept. 10, 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

Oil that leaked from a small oil tanker
that sank on September 10 off the
shores of Salamina island, is seen at a
beach at the suburb of Faliro in
Athens, Greece. REUTERS/Alkis
Konstantinidis
Sept. 10, 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

Sept. 13 , 2017

This image made available by NASA shows the moon Enceladus and the edge of
Saturn as seen from the Cassini spacecraft on its descent towards the planet on
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The probe disintegrated in the skies above Saturn
early Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, after a journey of 20 years. (NASA/JPL-
Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)
Sept 13 , 2017

Swim Gym
Mother and pup Weddell seals
play beneath the ice in east
Antarctica.
Laurent Ballesta / 2017 Wildlife
Photographer of the Year
Sept. 13, 2017

Saguaro Twist
Early morning light hits frost
damaged saguaro cacti at the
Sonoran Desert National
Monument in the South Maricopa
Mountains Wilderness, Arizona.
Jack Dykinga / 2017 Wildlife
Photographer of the Year
Sept. 13, 2017

Palestinian children stand behind a fence as people
wait for the return of their relatives from the annual
Haj pilgrimage in Mecca, at Rafah border crossing in the
southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Sept. 13, 2017

Palestinians stand atop a damaged building as they
wait for the return of their relatives from the annual
Haj pilgrimage in Mecca, at Rafah border crossing in
the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa
Sept. 13, 2017

Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton attends a signing of her new
book at Barnes & Noble bookstore at
Union Square in Manhattan.
REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Sept. 13, 2017

A woman covers her nose as she walks
past a pile of rubbish as refuse workers
strike over job losses in Birmingham,
Britain. REUTERS/Darren Staples
Sept. 13, 2017

A model presents creations from The
Blonds Spring/Summer 2018 collection
during New York Fashion Week in
Manhattan. REUTERS/Brendan
McDermid
Sept. 13, 2017

A Syrian woman
removes the niqab as
she arrives with her
family at the Syrian
Democratic Forces
checkpoint in the
eastern of Deir al Zor,
Syria. REUTERS/ Rodi
Said
Sept. 13, 2017

A worker pastes up an
election campaign poster for
the upcoming general
elections of the Christian
Democratic Union party
(CDU) with a headshot of
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel in Berlin, Germany.
REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Sept. 13, 2017

Reuters / Wednesday, September
13, 2017
Farmers from the southern state
of Tamil Nadu display skulls which
they claim are the remains of
Tamil farmers who have
committed suicide, during a
protest demanding good rates for
their crops and crop insurance
scheme from the government, in
New Delhi, India, September 13,
2017. REUTERS/Cathal
McNaughton TPX IMAGES OF THE
DAY
Sept. 13, 2017

Humanoid robot YuMi conducts the Lucca
Philharmonic Orchestra performing a
concert alongside Italian tenor Andrea
Bocelli at the Verdi Theatre in Pisa, Italy.
REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Sept. 13, 2017

Barcelona�s Lionel Messi celebrates
scoring their third goal with team
mates as Juventus� Gianluigi Buffon
looks dejected. REUTERS/Susana Vera
Sept. 13, 2017

Rohingya refugee children carry an
old woman in a sling near Balukhali
makeshift refugee camp in Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Danish
Siddiqui
Sept. 13, 2017

Rohingya refugees wait for the food to be
distributed by local organisation outside a
mosque in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sept. 13, 2017

A man accused of stealing
money from Rohingya
refugees is tied to a tree at a
makeshift refugee camp
near Balukhali in Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sept. 13, 2017

Rohingya refugees
travel on a truck to
Kutupalang makeshift
refugee camp in Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh.
REUTERS/Danish
Siddiqui
Sept. 13, 2017

Reuters / Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Dildar, 30, a Rohingya refugee woman who
said her ear was cut by members of the
Myanmar Army, is treated at the Cox's Bazar
District Sadar Hospital in Cox's Bazar,
Bangladesh. Reports from refugees and
rights groups paint a picture of widespread
attacks on Rohingya villages in the north of
Rakhine by the security forces and ethnic
Rakhine Buddhists, who have put numerous
Muslim villages to the torch. But Myanmar
authorities have denied that the security
forces, or Buddhist civilians, have been
setting the fires, instead blaming the
insurgents. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir
Hossain
Sept. 13, 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Rohingya Muslim girl Afeefa Bebi, who
recently crossed over from Myanmar
into Bangladesh, holds her few-hours-
old brother as doctors check her
mother Yasmeen Ara at a community
hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp,
Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 13,
2017. The family crossed into
Bangladesh on Sept. 3. Recent
violence in Myanmar has driven
hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
Muslims to seek refuge across the
border in Bangladesh. But Rohingya
have been fleeing persecution in
Buddhist-majority Myanmar for
decades, and many who have made it
to safety in other countries still face a
precarious existence. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin)
Sept. 13, 2017

Newly arrived Rohingya wait for their turn to
collect building material for their shelters
distributed by aid agencies in Kutupalong refugee
camp, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.
With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the
border from Myanmar, those packed into camps
and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh were
becoming desperate for scant basic resources as
hunger and illness soared. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Clay Atchley takes a rest while fixing up his
mother's home that was damaged from
Hurricane Irma in Naples, Fla., Wednesday,
Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sept. 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Mary Della Ratta, 94, sits by a battery powered lantern in
her home three days after Hurricane Irma knocked out
power in Naples, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. "I don't
know what to do. How am I going to last here?" said Della
Ratta. The number of people without electricity in the
steamy late-summer heat was down to 6.8 million. Utility
officials warned it could take over a week for power to be
fully restored. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sept. 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Jeremy Wilson is seen through an American
flag as he fixes up the roof of a home
belonging to a family member that was
damaged from Hurricane Irma in Naples,
Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP
Sept. 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Nineve Desronvil, 20, left, and her brother
Jeffrey 8, wade through their flooded
street trying to catch fish in the aftermath
of Hurricane Irma in Fort Myers, Fla.,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP
Sept. 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Wilta Desronvil shows
off the fish she caught in
her flooded street in the
aftermath of Hurricane
Irma in Fort Myers, Fla.,
Wednesday, Sept. 13,
2017. (AP Photo/David
Goldman)
Sept. 13, 2017

A boat is seen after being blown from the dock into the marsh after Hurricane
Irma passed through in St Marys, Georgia. REUTERS/Chris KeaneSept. 13, 2017

France's President Emmanuel Macron
looks on in destroyed building during his
visit to the French Caribbean island of
St. Martin. REUTERS/Christophe
Ena/Pool
Sept. 13, 2017

Florida Keys damage from above
A destroyed marina in Marathon.
Sept. 13, 2017

A sunken boat in Marathon. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Sept. 13, 2017

Marathon.
REUTERS/Carlo AllegriSept. 13, 2017

Boats washed ashore in Marathon. REUTERS/Carlo AllegriSept. 13, 2017

Marathon. REUTERS/Carlo
Allegri
Sept. 13, 2017

A destroyed trailer park
in Marathon.
Sept. 13, 2017

A destroyed marina in
Marathon. REUTERS/Carlo
Allegri
Sept. 13, 2017

Battle for Marawi
A government soldier checks his mobile phone in
front of damaged houses and buildings as troops
continue their assault on clearing operations
against the pro-IS militant group which seized
Mapandi district in Marawi city, southern
Philippines. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

Smoke billows after a fighter jet plane released a
bomb during an airstrike. REUTERS/Romeo
RanocoSept. 13, 2017

Government soldiers take a
break beside damaged
buildings. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

Damaged houses and buildings are seen as
troops continue their assault on clearing
operations against the pro-IS militant group.
REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

A military truck full of government
soldiers move past damaged
buildings. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

Damaged houses and buildings are seen
as troops continue their assault on
clearing operations against the pro-IS
militant group. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

Government soldiers stand guard in
front of damaged buildings as
troops continue their assault.
REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

Damaged buildings. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sept. 13, 2017

His youngest toddler, Jumah – named after
their second-born who was killed in an air raid
in 2015 - was held up by his wife Shamuos. He
kissed the protracted palm of Sham, his tiny
daughter, who was dressed in a black frock
neatly tucked in at the waist with a belt, small
white jacket and pink sandals.
"The policeman told me to wait half an hour
to finish the count. I couldn’t wait, I saw the
kids through the fence and I did this," he said,
waving his hands over his head.
"The kids ran over. I just wanted to see them,
for my heart to go back into its place," the 34-
year-old construction worker told Reuters on
Wednesday.
Sept. 13, 2017

France Europe Politics
European Commission President Jean-
Claude Juncker, right, shakes hands with
Former UK Independence Party leader, Nigel
Farage, before addressing the members of
the European Parliament in Strasbourg,
eastern France, to outline his reform plans
for the European Union in the so-called
State of the Union debate, Wednesday, Sept.
13, 2017. Juncker said the European Union is
"bouncing back" after a tough decade that's
seen much of the 28-country mired in an
economic crisis and Britain vote to leave.
(AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
Sept. 13, 2017

Germany Frankfurt Auto Show
A Volkswagen Touareg stands
upside down in front of the fair
ground of the IAA Motor Show
in Frankfurt, Germany,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.
The environmental
organization Greenpeace
installed the car the day before
to protest against the car
industry. (AP Photo/Michael
Probst)
Sept. 13, 2017

Germany Gloriosa Bell
Workers inspect the material
during the annual planned
maintenance of the Gloriosa bell in
the Mariendom (Cathedral of
Mary) in Erfurt, central Germany,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The
Gloriosa is the largest freely
swinging medieval bell in the
whole world. The tulip-shaped bell
is 2,57 meters in diameter, 2,47
meters high and weighs 11,450
kilograms. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Sept. 13, 2017

Anthony Weiner Sexting
Anthony Weiner, right, and Huma Abedin
appear in court in New York on Wednesday,
Sept. 13, 2017. The couple asked a New York
City judge to ask for privacy in their divorce
case. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via
AP, Pool)
Sept. 13, 2017

China Financial Markets
Chinese people take a nap at a
brokerage house in Beijing,
Most Asian stock markets
were higher Wednesday after
U.S. shares rose on
encouraging jobs data while
worries about North Korea
and twin hurricane disasters
eased. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Sept. 13, 2017

India Leopard
An Indian forest guard looks at a
leopard they tranquilized and
captured from a residence after
it was brought in a cage to the
state zoological park in Gauhati,
Assam state, India, Wednesday,
Sept. 13, 2017. The full grown
male leopard entered a
residence early Wednesday
morning. Conservationists say
deforestation is increasingly
pushing leopards into populated
areas. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Sept. 13, 2017

Slovenia Soccer Champions League
Spartak supporters light a flare during the
Champions League soccer match between
Maribor and Spartak Moscow at the Ljudski
vrt stadium, in Maribor, Slovenia, Wednesday,
Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Sept. 13, 2017

Germany Oktoberfest Soccer Bayern Munich
Bayern's players salut with beer in traditional Bavarian clothes during a
photo shooting of a brewing company in Munich, Germany,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. Mueller celebrates his 28th birthday today.
(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Sept. 13, 2017

France Olympic Bids
Paris officials unveil a display
of the Olympic rings on
Trocadero plaza that overlooks
the Eiffel Tower, after the vote
in Lima, Peru, awarding the
2024 Games to the French
capital, in Paris, France,
Paris will host the 2024
Summer Olympics and Los
Angeles will stage the 2028
Games — a pre-determined
conclusion that the
International Olympic
Committee has officially
ratified in a history-making
vote. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Sept. 13, 2017

Maine Daily Life
A runner gets in her exercise at
dawn on Willard Beach,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in
South Portland, Maine. The
state is enjoying a stretch of
pleasant weather with just over
a week of summer remaining on
the calendar. (AP Photo/Robert
F. Bukaty)
Sept. 13, 2017

Atheltics Red Sox Baseball
A banner is unfurled over the left field
wall during the fourth inning of a
baseball game between the Boston
Red Sox and Oakland Athletics at
Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday,
Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles
Krupa)
Sept. 13, 2017

Cuba Daily Life
A young man looks at the sea sitting on the wall
of an old abandoned pool in Cojimar, Cuba,
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon
Espinosa)
Sept. 13, 2017

Specialist Cerelai Spencer from Spring Lake, North Carolina,
reads her bible while waiting for her unit from the 602nd
Area Medical Support Company to depart for St. Thomas in
the U.S. Virgin Islands, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.,
September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
Sept. 13, 2017

Reuters / Wednesday, September
13, 2017
The Ford and Virginia Tech research
simulated a self-driving vehicle
using a �seat suit� to conceal the
human driver. This was done to
explore pedestrian reaction to
external lighting signals that
indicate when the vehicle is driving,
yielding or accelerating from a stop
in Arlington, Virginia. Ford Motor
Company/via Reuters
Sept. 13, 2017

Sept. 14 , 2017

Italy Vatican Latin Mass
A nun takes notes as she attends a
conference on the Latin Mass at Pontifical
University of St. Thomas Aquinas in
Rome, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP
Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Sept. 14, 2017

Trump
President Donald Trump responds to a reporters question as he boards Air Force
One with first lady Melania Trump, not shown, for a trip to Florida to meet with
first responders and people impacted by Hurricane Irma, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Sept. 14, 2017

Trump
Marine One, with President Trump aboard,
flies over areas impacted by Hurricane Irma,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in Naples, Fla. (AP
Photo/Evan Vucci)
Sept. 14, 2017

Hurricane Irma
Kudy Ann Bell shows off some of the pictures she
has coloring while spending time at a special
needs shelter, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, at Florida
International University in Miami, Fla. About 30
people, including staff with the Florida Keys
Outreach Coalition for the Homeless from Key
West, Fla., were sheltered in a storefront
underneath a parking garage on campus. (AP
Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Sept. 14, 2017

Guatemala Justice
Demonstrators push against an security
line of army police as they protest a
new penal law approved by Congress,
outside the National Palace in
Guatemala City, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. Congress approved legislation
that could replace prison sentences of
10 years with fines, and the decision
caused outrage because it came as
President Jimmy Morales faced
accusations of illegal campaign
financing during the 2016 election that
brought him to power. (AP Photo/Luis
Soto)
Sept. 14, 2017

Paper dolls representing lawmakers are burned
by anti-government demonstrators in front of
the Guatemalan Congress in Guatemala City,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Several protests
emerged against Guatemala's Congress after it
approved legislation reducing the punishment
for campaign-finance crimes Wednesday, two
days after blocking prosecutors and a U.N. anti-
corruption commission from investigating
President Jimmy Morales for alleged
irregularities during the election that brought
him to office. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Sept. 14, 2017

Spain Catalonia
Catalan President Carles
Puigdemont walks to the stage to
deliver a speech during an event
promoting the start of the
campaigning for the ballot in
Tarragona, about 100 kilometers
south of Barcelona, Spain,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Tension
is mounting between Catalan
and Spain's national leaders as
Catalonia's president is set to
open the "yes" campaign for a
planned referendum on seceding
from Spain Thursday. (AP
Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Sept. 14, 2017

Greece Oli Spill
Workers clean a beach from an oil spillage at
Faliro suburb, near Athens, on
Thursday,Sept. 14, 2017. Greek authorities
insist they are doing everything they can to
clean up pollution caused by an oil spill
following the sinking of a small oil tanker
that has left large sections of the Greek
capital's coastal areas coated in viscous,
foul-smelling oil. (AP Photo/Yorgos
Karahalis)
Sept. 14, 2017

India Boat Capsize
Footwear of victims lie scattered on the
banks after a country boat, background,
capsized near Baghpat town in Uttar
Pradesh state, India, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. A boat crowded with construction
workers capsized in the Yamuna River in
northern India early Thursday and more
than a dozen people have drowned, officials
said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Sept. 14, 2017

Three Kids Dead
Candles and stuff animals of a makeshift memorial sit
outside an apartment Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, where
three children were killed, in West Sacramento, Calif.
The children are killed around 9 p.m. Wednesday, and
their father Robert Hodges, 33, has been arrested in
the deaths that followed a domestic violence
altercation with his wife. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rizzo Statue Afro Pick
People walk near Hank Willis
Thomas' All Power to All People
sculpture in the same plaza as a
statue of former Philadelphia mayor
and police commissioner Frank
Rizzo in Philadelphia, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt
Rourke)
Sept. 14, 2017

France Tennis Davis Cup Semifinals
French players, from the left, Nicolas Mahut,
Pierre-Hugues herbert, Lucas Pouille, Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga and Captain Yannick Noah pose after the
draw for the Davis Cup semi final at the Pierre
Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nine-time champion
France will play in the opening singles against
Serbia in the Davis Cup semifinals on Friday. (AP
Photo/Michel Spingler)
Sept. 14, 2017

Marlins Phillies Baseball
Philadelphia Phillies' Cameron
Perkins, right, is doused by
Tommy Joseph after a baseball
game against the Miami Marlins,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in
Philadelphia. Philadelphia won
10-0. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Sept. 14, 2017

Germany Art
A woman inspects “The Melun Diptych” from the collegiate church of Melun
by French painter Jean Fouquet from the 15th century displayed at the
Gemaeldegalerie during a media presentation in Berlin, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. The exhibition brings the two fragments for the first time together
since 80 years.The left panel came into the Gemaeldegalerie in 1896 and the
right panel belonged to the Royal Museum of fine arts in Antwerp. The
exhibition about the painter Jean Fouquet runs from Sept. 16, 2017 until
Jan. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Sept. 14, 2017

China Daily Life
Women use their smartphones
as they sit near an
advertisement for the Beijing
Marathon in Beijing, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. Tens of
thousands of runners are
expected to participate in the
annual race on Sunday. (AP
Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Sept. 14, 2017

Nearly 3 weeks into Rohingya crisis, refugees still fleeing
A Rohingya Muslim man walks
to shore carrying an elderly
woman after they arrived on a
boat from Myanmar to
Bangladesh in Shah Porir Dwip,
Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. Nearly three weeks into a
mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing
violence in Myanmar, thousands
were still flooding across the
border Thursday in search of
help and safety in teeming
refugee settlements in
Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din
holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who
drowned when the boat they were
traveling in capsized just before reaching
the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries
upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in
Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a
mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence
in Myanmar, thousands were still
flooding across the border Thursday in
search of help and safety in teeming
refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman Hanida Begum, right, who crossed over
from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her infant son Abdul Masood
who died when the boat they were traveling in capsized minutes
before reaching shore, as a relative holds Masood's twin brother, in
Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who
crossed over from Myanmar into
Bangladesh, wails siting beside
her relative who fell unconscious
after the boat they were traveling
in capsized at Shah Porir Dwip,
2017. Nearly three weeks into a
mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing
violence in Myanmar, thousands
were still flooding across the
border Thursday in search of help
and safety in teeming refugee
settlements in Bangladesh. The
woman survived. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, walk
towards a refugee camp in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in
Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of
help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman Hanida
Begum, who crossed over from
Myanmar into Bangladesh, kisses her
infant son Abdul Masood who died
when the boat they were traveling in
capsized just before reaching the
shore of the Bay of Bengal, in Shah
Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims walk to shore after arriving on a boat from Myanmar to
Bangladesh in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly
three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar,
thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and
safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim boy froths from the
mouth as a man successfully tries to revive
him after the boat he was traveling in
capsized just before reaching shore at Shah
Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A man shakes a Rohingya Muslim boy
while trying to revive him after the
boat he was traveling in capsized just
before reaching shore at Shah Porir
Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14,
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who
Bangladesh, shouts for help as a
relative lies unconscious after the
boat they were traveling in
capsized minutes before reaching
shore at Shah Porir Dwip,
Sept. 14, 2017

A Bangladeshi boy walks towards a parked
boat as smoke rises from across the border in
Myanmar, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks
into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing
violence in Myanmar, thousands were still
flooding across the border Thursday in search
of help and safety in teeming refugee
settlements in Bangladesh. Those who arrived
Wednesday in wooden boats described
ongoing violence in Buddhist-majority
Myanmar, where smoke could be seen
billowing from a burning village, suggesting
more Rohingya homes had been set alight. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

An elderly Rohingya Muslim man
helps a boy get off a boat after they
arrived from Myanmar to Bangladesh
in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Relatives carry a Rohingya Muslim
woman, who fell unconscious when
the boat she was traveling in
capsized minutes before reaching
shore, towards a medical center for
treatment at Shah Porir Dwip,
2017. The woman survived. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslim women, who
Bangladesh, wail as a relative lies
unconscious after the boat they
were traveling in capsized
minutes before reaching shore at
Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. The
woman survived. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslim boys, who crossed over
from Myanmar into Bangladesh, dry their
Myanmarese currency after arriving by boat
at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim man walks to
shore carrying two children after
they arrived on a boat from
Myanmar to Bangladesh in Shah
Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday,
Sept. 14, 2017. Those who arrived
Wednesday in wooden boats
described ongoing violence in
Myanmar, where smoke could be
seen billowing from a burning
village, suggesting more Rohingya
homes had been set alight. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims walk to the shore after arriving on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh in Shah Porir
Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing
violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and
safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over
from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry an
elderly woman in a basket and walk
towards a refugee camp in Shah Porir
Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14,
2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass
exodus of (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim man Mohammad
Islam sits beside the body of his
daughter-in-law Anwara Begum who
died when the boat they were traveling
in capsized minutes before reaching
shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh,
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar
into Bangladesh, mourn for a family member who
drowned when the boat they were traveling in
capsized minutes before reaching the shore, at Shah
Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman,
who crossed over from
Myanmar into Bangladesh,
lies unconscious on the shore
of Bay of Bangal after the
boat she was traveling in
capsized at Shah Porir Dwip,
Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept.
14, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin)
Text from the AP news story, Nearly
3 weeks into Rohingya crisis,
refugees still fleeing, by Julhas Alam
and Dar Yasin.
Yasin reported from Shah Porir
Dwip, Bangladesh. AP journalist
David Keyton in Stockholm, Sweden,
contributed to this report.
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to
receive aid distributed by local
organisations at Balukhali makeshift
refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sept. 14, 2017

Informal mining in Brazil is seen by many as a
scourge polluting the Amazon rainforest,
poisoning indigenous tribes and robbing the
nation of its wealth.
For others it is a way of life.
GALLERY PHOTOS

4 AUG 2017. CREPURIZAO, BRAZIL. REUTERS/NACHO DOCE
Brazilian garimpos, or wildcat
mines, are operated by small crews
of men, often caked in red-brown
mud and working with
rudimentary pans, shovels and
sluice boxes that have been used
for centuries.
More sophisticated operations use
water cannons and boats sucking
mud from the bottoms of rivers.
Regardless of the method,
searching for gold and other
minerals like cassiterite and
niobium is dirty, dangerous and
often illegal.
GALLERY PHOTOS

"Looking for gold is like playing in a
casino," said a 48-year-old miner.
Miners asked not to be named, saying
they feared the police as much of
their work is illegal.
He started in the wildcat mines as a
teenager in the area around
Crepurizao — a ramshackle frontier
town of 5,000 with a dirt landing strip
that is a gateway for informal mining
in the region.
GALLERY PHOTOS

Garimpos are in the spotlight as Brazil
debates opening an area known as Renca in
the northern Amazon forest to mining, which
has met with stiff resistance from
environmentalists.
Mines and Energy Minister Fernando Coelho
Filho argues that licensed mining will be an
improvement over the estimated 1,000
people currently mining in the reserve
illegally.
GALLERY PHOTOS

Crepurizao lies hundreds of miles south
of Renca, but gives a window into life
in the garimpos caught up in the
debate.
Living in makeshift homes of wood and
plastic, miners in the area ship some
60 kilograms (132 lbs) of gold per
month, according to traders.
GALLERY PHOTOS

That much pure gold is worth
millions of dollars on the global
market, but high costs and layers
of traders in the local market
leave most miners living on the
brink of poverty.
Basic staples can cost four or five
times the price in the nearest city,
an eight-hour bus ride away.
GALLERY PHOTOS

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Pigs
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Fuel stations, a general store, a bar, an
evangelical church and prostitutes vie for the
income and attention of the miners, known as
garimpeiros, when they aren't working or
lazing in hammocks.
GALLERY PHOTOS

There are 2,113 licensed garimpo sites in
Brazil, according to ministry data, but
environmental experts and two government
officials, who asked not to be named, said
far more small-scale mines skip the licensing
and ignore regulations altogether.
In Crepurizao, where mines often cluster
close together, it was unclear which
operations were licensed.
GALLERY PHOTOS

The total area worked by
garimpeiros in Brazil is thought to
be small. But chemicals like
mercury, which miners in
Crepurizao dump to separate gold
from grit, can leave a large
footprint of contamination.
In March last year, a government-
backed study of indigenous
villages in the northern state of
Roraima revealed alarming levels
of mercury.
GALLERY PHOTOS

One group of villagers had more
than double the level of mercury
considered to be a serious health
risk - such as damage to the
central nervous system, kidneys,
heart and reproductive process -
detected in their hair.
The Mining and Energy Ministry
said a new oversight agency
created in a decree by President
Michel Temer, now pending
congressional approval, would
allow more effective government
coordination and inspections to
restrict illegal mining.
A garimpeiro pours water containing mercury to separate gold from grit and other minerals.
GALLERY PHOTOS

Congressman Leonardo Quintao, who sits
on the committee considering the new
agency, said it will be able to raise more
funding for oversight. He said the
regulations target licensed miners, while
illegal mining remains a matter for the
police.
Still, one Ibama enforcement officer, who
was not authorised to speak to the media,
said the government had left miners like
those in Crepurizao in a precarious limbo.
"You can't just pull them out of the
garimpos and the cities that are living off
gold. And the government does not offer
them structure and decent conditions,"
said the officer. "So they're stranded there
without the minimum conditions for
survival."
WRITING BY JAKE SPRING
GALLERY PHOTOS

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GALLERY PHOTOS

Wildcat gold miner, or garimpeiro, works at a wildcat mine, also
known as garimpo, at a deforested area of Amazon rainforest near
Crepurizao, in the municipality of Itaituba, Para State, Brazil.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
GALLERY PHOTOS

A man celebrates to show his support for the
upcoming September 25th independence
referendum in Zakho, Iraq. REUTERS/Ari JalalSept. 14, 2017

Reuters / Thursday, September 14, 2017
A crane operator steers his mobile crane next to a 18
metres wide 'Mega Poster' of Angela Merkel, German
Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union
party CDU after fixing the lights for Merkel's campaign
picture for the September 24 general elections in
Duisburg, Germany. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Sept. 14, 2017

Sergii Rodionov takes a
photograph on his mobile
phone from a rooftop in
Moscow.
REUTERS/Maxim
Shemetov
Sept. 14, 2017

A government soldier from the Philippine Marines 1st Brigade patrol takes up
position as troops continue their assault on clearing operations against the pro-
IS militant group in Marawi city, southern Philippines. REUTERS/Marconi
Navales
Sept. 14, 2017

An LA2028 sign is seen on the Los Angeles Coliseum to
celebrate Los Angeles being awarded the 2028 Olympic
Games. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Sept. 14, 2017

Models Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner talk backstage before walking in the
Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2018 collection during New York Fashion Week in
Manhattan. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidSept. 14, 2017

A member of the Peres family, pays her respect near the
wreath-covered grave of the late Israeli President Shimon
Peres, during an official state memorial ceremony marking
one year since Peres' death, at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem.
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Sept. 14, 2017

Lightning strikes behind Las Vegas Strip casinos
as a thunderstorm passes through Las Vegas,
Nevada. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Sept. 14, 2017

Riot police detain protesters during the
trial of two Turkish teachers, who went on
a hunger strike over their dismissal under a
government decree following last year's
failed coup, outside of a courthouse in
Ankara, Turkey. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Sept. 14, 2017

A destroyed trailer park is pictured in an
aerial photo in the Keys in Marathon,
Florida. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Sept. 14, 2017

Flood waters engulf a car after
Hurricane Irma in Jacksonville,
Florida. REUTERS/Mark Makela
Sept. 14, 2017

Supporters of former Brazilian president
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a rally
after his testimony to Federal Judge
Sergio Moro in Curitiba, Brazil.
REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
Sept. 14, 2017

Models present creations from Marc Jacobs SS 2018
collection during New York Fashion Week.
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Sept. 14, 2017

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
touches a sculpture of three monkeys as
his wife, Akie Abe, and India's Prime
Minister Narendra Modi look on during
their visit to Gandhi Ashram in
Ahmedabad, India. REUTERS/Amit Dave
Sept. 14, 2017

Shakhtar Donetsk's Taison
celebrates scoring their first goal
against SSC Napoli with Darijo
Srna during Champions League
action. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Sept. 14, 2017

The Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic squad fly
together with a DC-3 aircraft ahead of the
Breitling Sion Airshow in Sion, Switzerland.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Sept. 14, 2017

People displaced by violence walk in the banks of Mayu river with their
belongings while moving to another village, in Buthidaung in the north of
Rakhine state, Myanmar. REUTERS/StringerSept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya refugee faints after a scuffle for food being distributed by local
organisations in Teknaf, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiSept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya refugee woman cries as her
relative lost consciousness after a boat
capsized on the shore of Shah Porir Dwip
while crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar
border in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya refugees cook food
outside their temporary shelters at
Thaingkhali makeshift refugee
camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sept. 14, 2017

A Rohingya boy carries a child after
after crossing the Bangladesh-
Myanmar border in Teknaf,
Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad
Ponir Hossain/File Photo
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya refugees walk on a
muddy path at Thaingkhali
makeshift refugee camp in Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh.
Sept. 14, 2017

Rohingya refugees take shelter under a
tarpaulin as it rains at Thaingkhali
makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar,
Bangladesh. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Sept. 14, 2017

Government soldiers from the Philippine
Marines 1st Brigade patrol past damaged
buildings. REUTERS/Marconi Navales
Battle for Marawi
Sept. 14, 2017

A government soldier from the Philippine
Marines 1st Brigade aims his weapon
towards a militant position.
REUTERS/Marconi Navales
Sept. 14, 2017

Government soldiers from the
Philippine Marines 1st Brigade patrol
past damaged buildings.
REUTERS/Marconi Navales
Sept. 14, 2017

Graffiti is seen at a damaged house in
Mapandi village after intense fighting
between soldiers and the pro-IS
militant group. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
Sept. 14, 2017

Real Madrid�s Cristiano Ronaldo
scores their second goal from a
penalty against Apoel Nicosia in
Madrid. REUTERS/Paul Hanna
Sept. 14, 2017

Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and
Chris Knierim practice for
the U.S. International
Figure Skating Classic. Jeff
Swinger-USA TODAY Sports
Sept. 14, 2017

Migrants on a rubber boat gesture as they are rescued by the SOS Mediterranee
organisation during a search and rescue (SAR) operation with the MV Aquarius
rescue ship (not pictured) in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan Coast.
REUTERS/Tony Gentile
Sept. 14, 2017

A news report about President Donald Trump's
relationship with Senate Minority Leader
Charles Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plays on a
television as he speaks to reporters in the press
cabin aboard Air Force One on his way to
Washington after viewing damage from
Hurricane Irma in Florida. REUTERS/Jonathan
Ernst
Sept. 14, 2017

Sept. 15 , 2017

The Journey Ends
After 20 years, Cassini is running
out of fuel. It will end its mission on
Sept. 15, 2017, plunging into Saturn
while fighting to keep its antenna
pointed at Earth as it transmits its
farewell.
"In the skies of Saturn, the journey
ends, as Cassini becomes part of the
planet itself," reads a description of
the spacecraft's planned
termination on the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory website.
Above: An artist's conception
depicts Cassini as it begins to burn
up in Saturn's atmosphere.
NASA/JPL
Sept. 15, 2017

The Journey Begins
A 7-year voyage to Saturn begins
with the liftoff of a Titan
IVB/Centaur rocket carrying the
Cassini orbiter and the European
space Agency's Huygens probe
on Oct. 15, 1997.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science
Institute
GALLERY PHOTOS

Summer is Coming
Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived
at Saturn in mid-2004, the planet's
appearance has changed greatly.
Saturn's year is nearly 30 Earth-years
long and the shifting angle of sunlight
as the seasons march forward has
illuminated the giant hexagon-shaped
jet stream around the north polar
region. The subtle bluish hues seen
earlier in the mission have continued
to fade.
This view shows Saturn's northern
hemisphere in 2016.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science
Institute
GALLERY PHOTOS

Signs of Life?
Saturn's sixth largest moon,
Enceladus, has loomed large in
the minds of astrobiologists
since 2005, when Cassini first
spotted geysers of water ice
erupting from "tiger stripe"
fissures near its south pole.
Scientists think these geysers
are blasting material from a
sizable ocean buried beneath
the satellite's ice shell,
indicating that Enceladus has
liquid water, one of the key
ingredients required for life.
NASA/JPL/Space Science
Institute
GALLERY PHOTOS

Saturn Cassini Finale
Flight director Julie Webster reacts in mission
control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after
confirmation of Cassini's demise Friday, Sept. 15,
2017, in Pasadena , Calif. Cassini disintegrated in
the skies above Saturn early Friday, following a
remarkable journey of 20 years. (AP Photo/Jae C.
Hong, Pool)
Sept. 15, 2017

Sloane Stephens holds up the U.S. Open
championship trophy as the lid falls off after she
won the women's singles final on Sept. 9 in New
York.
Stephens never looked shaken by the setting or
the stakes in her first Grand Slam final. She easily
beat her close friend Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0 to win
the tournament, capping a remarkably rapid rise
after sitting out 11 months because of foot
surgery.
The 83rd-ranked Stephens, who beat Venus
Williams in the semifinals, is only the second
unseeded woman to win the tournament in the
Open era, which began in 1968.
Nick Didlick / AP
Sept. 15, 2017

Frank Giaccio, 11, mows the grass in the Rose
Garden at the White House on Sept. 15, in
Washington. Giaccio, from Falls Church,
Virginia, wrote a letter to Trump expressing
admiration for Trump's business background
and offered to mow the White House grass.
Frank was so focused on pushing the lawn
mower, he didn't notice Trump had emerged to
greet him until the president was next to him
in the Rose Garden.
PHOTO: Grassroots Appeal: Kid Mows White
House Lawn, Gets Presidential Visit
Win McNamee / Getty Images
Sept. 15, 2017

President Trump
welcomes 11-year-old
Frank Giaccio as he cuts
the Rose Garden grass.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Sept. 15, 2017

A car drives past a boat washed up
in Marigot in the island of Saint
Martin. REUTERS/Andres Martinez
Casares
Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma
Sept. 15, 2017

Residents stand around destroyed
houses on St. Martin.
REUTERS/Christophe Ena/Pool
Sept. 15, 2017

Aerial view of St. Martin. REUTERS/Christophe Ena/Pool
Sept. 15, 2017

A woman walks past debris in Marigot, Saint
Martin. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Sept. 15, 2017

Buildings affected by Hurricane Irma in
Marigot, Saint Martin. REUTERS/Andres
Martinez Casares
Sept. 15, 2017

Blast in London underground
Personal belongings and a bucket with
an item on fire inside it on the floor of
an underground train carriage at Parsons
Green station in West London. Sylvain
Pennec/via REUTERS
Sept. 15, 2017

Personal belonglongs and a
bucket with an item on fire inside
it on the floor at Parsons Green
station. SYLVAIN PENNEC/via
REUTERS
Sept. 15, 2017

An injured woman reacts outside Parsons
Green tube station. REUTERS/Kevin
Coombs
Sept. 15, 2017

An injured woman is led away after an
incident at Parsons Green underground
station. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Sept. 15, 2017

Members of a bomb disposal squad
work at a van near Parsons Green tube
station in London. REUTERS/Kevin
Coombs
Sept. 15, 2017

Britain Subway Incident
A police forensic officer walks beside the train where an
incident happened, that police say they are investigating as a
terrorist attack, at Parsons Green subway station in London,
Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. A bucket wrapped in an insulated bag
caught fire on a packed London subway train Friday, sending
commuters stampeding in panic at the height of the morning
rush hour. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Sept. 15, 2017

Koln's Lukas Klunter in action with
Arsenal's Sead Kolasinac. Action Images
via Reuters/John Sibley
Sept. 15, 2017

Thousands of participants wear green t-shirts provided by the National Catalan
Assembly (ANC) during a rally on Catalonia's national day 'La Diada' in
Barcelona, Spain. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Sept. 15, 2017

Police Shooting St Louis
Protesters yell at the law enforcement officers at the old
courthouse steps as they march down, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, in
downtown St. Louis, after a judge found a white former St. Louis
police officer, Jason Stockley, not guilty of first-degree murder in
the death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally
shot following a high-speed chase in 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff
Roberson)
Protests Turn Violent in St. Louis Following Not Guilty Verdict
Sept. 15, 2017

Protestors march through the city
streets following a not guilty verdict.
Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images
Sept. 15, 2017

A man holds a rifle as he walks
with a group of fellow protesters
carrying weapons in downtown St.
Louis.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Sept. 15, 2017

A man yells at a law enforcement officer
during a protest following a not guilty
verdict.
Sept. 15, 2017

Police Shooting St Louis
Police line up as protesters gather, Friday, Sept. 15,
2017, in St. Louis, after a judge found a white former
St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, not guilty of
first-degree murder in the death of a black man,
Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally shot following a
high-speed chase in 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Sept. 15, 2017

Protesters gather at night in protest.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Sept. 15, 2017

A protestor raises his arm in the air
while marching with others at
dusk.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Sept. 15, 2017

Protestors demonstrate during a
protest following a not guilty
verdict.
Sept. 15, 2017

Brazil Corruption
Brazil's President Michel Temer
wipes his face during a ceremony
at the Brain Institute in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 15,
2017. Temer has been charged
with obstruction of justice and of
leading a criminal organization, in
the latest fallout from a wide-
ranging corruption probe that has
ensnared many of the elite in
Latin America's largest nation. (AP
Photo/Leo Correa)
Sept. 15, 2017

Panama Drugs
An anti-narcotics police officer
slashes open a seized package of
cocaine, which carries an
"Adidas" look-alike label, during a
drug destruction operation near
La Chorrera, Panama, Friday, Sept.
15, 2017. According to police,
they burned at least nine tons of
cocaine and marijuana seized in
drug operations within the last
two months. (AP Photo/Arnulfo
Franco)
Sept. 15, 2017

Syria Russia
Russian soldiers who convoyed a group of
journalists move on a truck in the city of Deir ez-
Zor, Syria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo)
Sept. 15, 2017

Syria Russia
A Russian military policeman, left, rests
in the lobby of a hospital in the city of
Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.
(AP Photo)
Sept. 15, 2017

Spain Fashion Devota &
Lomba
A model displays a 2018
Spring/Summer creation by
Spanish designer Devota &
Lomba during Madrid's Fashion
Week in Madrid, Friday, Sept. 15,
2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Sept. 15, 2017

New Zealand US Soccer
New Zealand defender Ria
Percival (2) steals the ball from
United States midfielder
Megan Rapinoe (15) during the
first half of an international
friendly soccer match in
Commerce City, Colo., Friday,
Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jack
Dempsey)
Sept. 15, 2017

Australia Davis Cup
Tennis
Belgium's David Goffin
jubilates after winning his
match against Australia's
John Millman during a
Davis Cup World Group
semi-final tennis match in
Brussels, Friday, Sept. 15,
2017. Goffin won the match
6-7, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6. (AP
Photo/Geert Vanden
Wijngaert)
Sept. 15, 2017

Brazil Rock in Rio
A music fan slides along a zip-line
during the Rock in Rio music festival
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Sept.
15, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Sept. 15, 2017

Reuters / Friday, September 15, 2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
watches the launch of a Hwasong-12
missile in this undated photo
released September 16, 2017. North
Korea said it aims to reach an
'equilibrium' of military force with
the United States, which earlier
signaled its patience for diplomacy is
wearing thin after Pyongyang fired a
missile over Japan for the second
time in under a month. KCNA via
REUTERS
Sept 15 , 2017

South Korea Koreas Tension
A woman watches a TV screen showing a file footage of
North Korea's missile launch, at the Seoul Railway Station in
Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's
military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday
from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before
landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. The signs read "Japan
protests North Korea's missile launch." (AP Photo/Ahn
Young-joon)
Sept. 15 , 2017

Rohingya grieve after baby dies in border crossing
TEKNAF, BANGLADESH - Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Sept 14 , 2017
He took a picture of Hamida, cradling
the tiny pale body of her child, Abdul
Masood. He appears to have died as
the survivors scrambled through the
crashing waves to shore.
Another picture showed the anguish
on the face of Nasir Ahmed as he
carried his son away from the crowd.

As they neared the shore, the boat
capsized and they were tossed into
the murky water.
Reuters photographer Mohammad
Ponir Hossain was taking pictures
of exhausted refugees on the
beach when he heard an
autorickshaw driver shouting that
a boat had capsized.
"I rushed to the spot and found
people crying over the dead body
of a child," Ponir said.
14 SEP 2017. TEKNAF, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/FILE PHOTO
Sept 14 , 2017

The couple’s other son survived
the accident.
Around 400,000 Rohingya have
arrived in Bangladesh in less
than three weeks and people are
still arriving, by land and sea,
after attacks by Rohingya
militants sparked a fierce
counteroffensive by Myanmar's
army.
Senior United Nations officials
have described the violence as a
"textbook example of ethnic
cleansing". 14 SEP 2017. TEKNAF, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/FILE PHOTO
Sept 14 , 2017

Hamida’s family was among tens of
thousands of Rohingya who
embarked in a rickety fleet of small
wooden fishing boats on the
crossing from Myanmar’s coast to
southern Bangladesh, a journey that
can take up to five hours.
"They are so desperate that they are
risking their lives to escape
Myanmar. The pictures show what is
going on here," Ponir said.
WRITING BY DARREN SCHUETTLER 15 SEP 2017. TEKNAF, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/FILE PHOTO
Sept 15 , 2017

15 SEP 2017. TEKNAF, BANGLADESH.
REUTERS/MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/FILE
PHOTO
Sept 15 , 2017

A Rohingya refugee boy sits inside his
temporary shelter on Sept. 12.
Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Sept 12 , 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

A boy stands near a newly
built shelter on Sept. 13.
Bangladesh has said all
refugees must go home.
Myanmar has said it will take
back those who can verify
their citizenship.
Dar Yasin / AP
Sept 13 , 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

A Rohingya Muslim boy carries
jerry cans filled with water
collected from a nearby hand
pump on Sept. 13.
Dar Yasin / AP
Sept 13 , 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

A young Rohingya boy sits next to
solar panels outside a basic shelter
on Sept. 15.
The Bangladesh government have
used troops to deliver foreign aid to
the border town that has been
overwhelmed by Rohingya Muslim
refugees from Myanmar.
Dominque Faget / AFP - Getty
Images
Sept 15 , 2017

Rohingya Muslims interrogate a
suspected child trafficker on Sept. 15.
Dar Yasin / AP
Sept 15 , 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who recently crossed over
from Myanmar into Bangladesh, beat and
kick a man suspected to be a child lifter near
Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Friday,
Sept. 15, 2017. Thousands of Rohingya are
continuing to stream across the border, with
U.N. officials and others demanding that
Myanmar halt what they describe as a
campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven
nearly 400,000 Rohingya to flee in the past
three weeks. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 15, 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar
Attacks
A Rohingya Muslim woman
Zahida Banoo holds her son
Mohammad Noor, left, and
daughter Shah Heer as she
poses for a photograph on the
way to her shelter in
Kutupalong refugee camp,
Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 15,
2017. With Rohingya refugees
still flooding across the border
from Myanmar, those packed
into camps and makeshift
settlements in Bangladesh
were becoming desperate for
scant basic resources as
hunger and illness soared. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sept. 15, 2017

Rohingya children stand inside
their makeshift tent without light
at the top of the camp on Sept.
15.
Many of the Rohingya fleeing the
violence in Myanmar had traveled
by boat to find refuge in
neighboring Bangladesh.
Abir Abdullah / EPA
Sept 15 , 2017
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