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Travel: A Photo Trip to Socotra
YEMEN
April 23, 2018

Travel: A Photo Trip to Socotra
ALAN TAYLOR APR 23, 2018 25 PHOTOS IN FOCUS
Off the coast of Yemen, in the Arabian Sea, lies isolated Socotra Island, where
hundreds of plants and animals have developed into species unique to the island.
Socotra is the largest island in an archipelago that includes three other islands. The
Socotra Archipelago has been isolated from any large landmass for millions of years,
and is now home to a surprising display of biodiversity. Probably the best-known of its
endemic flora is the dragon blood tree, with red-colored sap and tightly-clustered
branches that look like roots turned upside down. Below, a collection of images of the
landscape of Socotra, and the plants and animals that call it home.

Off the coast of Yemen, in the
Arabian Sea, lies the isolated
Socotra Island, where
hundreds of plants and
animals have developed into
unique species.
Travel : A Photo Trip to Socotra
Two paragliders fly above the Arabian
Sea off the coast of Socotra Island. #
P. Medicus / Getty
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A bottle tree, Socotra's desert
rose (Adenium obesum), in
bloom on Socotra Island. #
Sunsinger / Shutterstock
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A sunset view from the top of a
mountain in Socotra. #
Honza Krej / Shutterstock
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A dragon blood tree
(Dracaena cinnabari) on
Socotra Island. #
Alex7370 / Shutterstock
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A Socotra starling
(Onychognathus frater). #
Vladimir Melnik / Shutterstock
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Socotra's Detwah Lagoon
under starlight. #
Jeremy Woodhouse / Getty
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A chameleon hides in a plant on
Socotra Island. #
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Pale Socotran dunes. While the island has a tropical
desert climate, only small regions along the
southern shore have stretches of sand dunes. #
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A bottle tree sprouts from a
perch in a rocky hillside. #
Anthony Pappone / Getty
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Dolphins swim along the
coast of Socotra. #
James Morgan / Getty
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A dragon blood tree stands in Socotra's
Diksam Plateau on March 11, 2011. #
Marco Di Lauro / Getty
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Detail of the branches of a dragon
blood tree, photographed on July 2,
2013. #
Naeblys / Shutterstock
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A car sits parked inside the mouth of
Dogub cave on Socotra Island on
November 19, 2013. #
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
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Windblown patterns in
Socotran dunes. #
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A blooming bottle tree on a
rocky outcrop in the Haghir
mountains on Socotra Island. #
Alex Martin Ros / Getty
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Bottle trees stand on a hillside
in Wadi Diksam on Socotra
Island on November 19, 2013. #
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The approach to Ditwa lagoon and
beach near the port of Qalensiya,
the second biggest town on
Socotra Island, photographed on
February 1, 2008. #
Alistair Lyon / Reuters
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Sand dunes along Socotra's
shoreline. #
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Sea landscape, Socotra. #
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Dragon blood trees, known locally
as Dam al-Akhawain or "blood of
the two brothers," on Socotra
Island on November 21, 2013. #
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Dragon blood trees at night,
photographed with a long
exposure time. #
Alex Martin Ros / Getty
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A freshwater pool on Socotra
Island. #
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An Egyptian vulture flies on Socotra
Island on March 27, 2008. #
Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi /
Reuters
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Sand dunes of Socotra. #
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A view of Socotra's shoreline with a
Socotran desert rose in the
foreground. #
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Zhou Xing Ci’s family have farmed
poppies for as long as anyone
remembers, scraping the flowers'
sticky brown sap to produce opium.
Along with many other farmers in
the hills of eastern Myanmar, the
crop – much of which ends up as
heroin sold on foreign streets - has
in recent years put Myanmar
behind only Afghanistan as the
world’s leading source of opium.
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April , 2018

Zhou walks across a small bridge outside his
house surrounded by his mulberry farm.
“That tradition stops with me,”
Zhou, 42, told Reuters at his
sturdy new timber house in
Tangyan township, in the north of
Shan State.
Zhou is now in his third year
raising silkworms rather than
poppies, and says quicker profits
have enabled his family - with six
children - to upgrade from a
bamboo hut.
22 APR 2018. LASHIO, MYANMAR. REUTERS/ANN WANG
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Silkworms fed with mulberry leaves.
A Chinese company working with
farmers like Zhou hopes the silk-
producing larva can help the
farmers, and their country, quit
the drug.
“Growing opium is too tough. It’s
only one harvest every year and a
rain can easily destroy a whole
year’s work,” said Zhou.
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The price for opium has fallen,
he said, and growing poppies
risked running afoul of heavy-
handed eradication efforts by
Myanmar authorities.
The price drop, alongside the
rise of synthetic drugs like
methamphetamine, has
contributed to a 25 percent
fall in the total area of
Myanmar under poppy
cultivation since 2015,
according to the United
Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC).
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The U.N. agency has assisted more than 1,000 farmers to switch from
opium to another cash crop, coffee, since 2014, said Troels Vester,
UNODC country manager for Myanmar.
Still, 41,000 hectares (101,313 acres) of poppy was planted in
Myanmar last year, the agency said. Farmers in conflict areas were
less likely to have moved to licit crops, it added.
In the corner of Myanmar where Zhou lives, bordering China's Yunnan
province, various armed groups operate and the law is barely
enforced, providing a haven for opium traders, as well as heroin
producers and meth-lab operators.
Aung Myo Tho, 35, an ethnic Palaung woman stands
outside her house near mulberry and silkworm farm.
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“It was nothing but poppy farms when we first arrived in
this area in 2014,” said Wang Bing, 63, vice general
manager of DH Silco Enterprise, the Chinese company
working with farmers, navigating a winding dirt road in a
four-wheel drive.
The company is working with more than 1,800 families,
who grow mulberry bushes to feed the silkworms on
2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of land, producing at least
288,000 kg of cocoons to be exported to China each year,
Wang said.
Farmers receive payment for their first harvest of the year
of silkworm cocoons at a base camp of DH Silco Enterprise
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About 50 sericulturalists from China
help farmers to harvest as often as
every two weeks between April and
November, said Wang, a Zhejiang
province native who's spent more
than 40 years in China’s silk trade.
An ethnic Palaung woman holds silkworm cocoons.
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Ethnic Palaung workers clean off trays for baby silkworms at a mulberry farm.
Some villagers have moved to lower lying areas to
take part. Others are now farming silkworms
alongside other crops like watermelons.
But old habits are hard to break.
During Reuters’ last visit in April, Zhou’s children
played with poppy-farming tools, and a small plot
of poppy stalks grew next to his mulberry bushes.
His neighbour was growing a small amount to feed
his grandfather’s opium addiction, Zhou said.
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A dried poppy in a field next to a mulberry farm
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Reuters / Friday, May 04, 2018
A member of the Attorney General's Office (PGJ) is
seen at the area where marijuana, packets of
cocaine and other drugs seized during the current
administration, are being incinerated, at a camp of
the Mexican Army's 37A infantry battalion in San
Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico. REUTERS/Henry
Romero
May 4 , 2018

Navy jets fly sorties against IS in Syria
An F/A-18 fighter jet takes off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in
the eastern Mediterranean Sea, May 4, 2018. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
A U.S. naval strike force led by aircraft carrier USS Harry
S. Truman began sorties on May 3 against Islamic State
in Syria, continuing missions by a U.S.-led...
May 4 , 2018

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel use hand signals as an F/A-18 fighter jet
prepares to take off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the
eastern Mediterranean Sea, May 4, 2018. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
May 4 , 2018

A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye prepares to take off
from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in
the eastern Mediterranean Sea, May 4, 2018.
REUTERS/Alkis KonstantinidisMay 4 , 2018

An F/A-18 fighter jet takes off from the USS
Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, May 4, 2018. REUTERS/Alkis
KonstantinidisMay 4 , 2018

May 5, 2018

F/A-18 fighter jets are seen on the
flight deck of the USS Harry S.
Truman aircraft carrier in the
eastern Mediterranean Sea, May 5,
2018. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
May 5 , 2018

U.S. Navy sailors perform checks on
an F/A-18 fighter jet as another F/A-
18 prepares to land on the USS
Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in
the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
May 5 , 2018

Hawaii volcano: Residents evacuate
as lava fissures destroy homes
Fissure 7 in Pahoa on May 5. At the peak of
its activity, large bubble bursts occurred at
one spot, lower left, in the fissure while
spattering was present in other portions.
— U.S. Geological Survey / via AP
May 5 , 2018

Lava erupts from a fissure from Luana
Street in the Leilani Estates
subdivision near Pahoa on May 5.
— U.S. Geological Survey / Getty
Images
May 5 , 2018

Volunteers set up a tent to distribute
goods to evacuees beside a roadblock
near volcanic activity on Hawaii's Big
Island in Pahoa on May 5.
— Mario Tama / Getty Images
May 5 , 2018

A Hawaii Volcanoes National Park worker
turns people away on May 5 after the park
was closed a day earlier due to dangerous
volcanic activity.
— Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images
May 5 , 2018

Evacuees, from left, Stacy Welch, Taylor Burns
and Maddy Welch with their pet goose and
dog outside the emergency shelter where they
are staying at the Pahoa Community Center in
Pahoa on on May 5. The three said they fled
their home in vehicles in the early morning
along with their pets after they saw lava
approaching in the distance.
May 5 , 2018

Jockey Mike Smith celebrates after winning
the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby at
Churchill Downs on May 5, 2018 in
Louisville, Kentucky. Smith earned his
second Derby victory, becoming at 52 the
second-oldest winning jockey.
— Andy Lyons / Getty Images
May 5, 2018

May 6, 2018

Valentina Lukina cleans a World War II
monument in Irkutskoye, Russia, on
May 6. A few residents of the remote
village try to maintain the Soviet-era
monument, but suffer from lack of
finance in an impoverished village.
— Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
May 6, 2018

Lava consumes homes as Hawaii's
Kilauea volcano erupts
The lava lake at the summit of
the Kilauea volcano near Pahoa
on Hawaii's Big Island on May 6,
2018.
The number of homes destroyed
by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
jumped to 26 on Sunday as
scientists reported lava spewing
more than 200 feet into the air.
— U.S. Geological Survey via AP
May 6 , 2018

Fissure eruption fountains spew
more than 100 feet into the air
near Pahoa on May 6.
— Bruce Omori / Paradise
Helicopters via EPA
May 6 , 2018

Lava threatens homes
near Pahoa on May 6.
— Bruce Omori / Paradise
Helicopters via EPA
May 6 , 2018

Plants grow on hardened lava from the
1990 eruption of the Kilauea volcano
in Kalapana, Hawaii, on May 6.
— Marco Garcia / AP
May 6 , 2018

Reuters / Sunday, May 06, 2018
A member of a search team stands with a
metal detector near the excavation site
where the remains of Red Army soldiers
killed in World War Two were found, near the
village of Didymkin in Stavropol region,
Russia. In a week of searching, the group
formed by military, members of military-
patriotic camps and volunteers, found
remains of 12 soldiers. REUTERS/Eduard
Korniyenko
May 6 , 2018

Reuters / Sunday, May 06, 2018
Britain's Princess Charlotte and her brother
Prince Louis are seen in this photograph released
by Kensington Palace, taken by Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge, on Princess Charlotte's
third birthday, at Kensington Palace in London.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge/Courtesy of
Kensington Palace/via REUTERS
May 6 , 2018

Europe’s migrant barrier nears breaking point
MAY 4, 2018
At the heart of Moria, an overcrowded refugee
camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, is a dark
rectangular building ringed with police guards
and coils of razor wire. Taking photographs of it
is prohibited.
It’s here that thousands of migrants are
interviewed by asylum officers _ and ultimately
informed whether they will ever be allowed to
leave the island.
Holding up a tattered asylum card that reads
“Forbidden to travel outside Lesbos,” 40-year-
old Syrian Ziad Rashid said he was supposed to
be deported back to Turkey after he
unsuccessfully appealed his failed application.
But Turkey’s effective refusal to re-admit
migrants means there’s nowhere he could go.
“I’ve been here for two years,” says Rashid,
struggling to find the words in broken Greek and
English. “It’s a big problem.”
May 4, 2018
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Hasan, no other name given, from Deir ez-Zor in Syria, who arrived in Greece six months
ago, sits behind the net of his tent at a makeshift camp outside the official camp of Moria
at the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Lesbos is facing a fourth summer of crisis.
It’s one of five Greek islands near the
coast of Turkey being used by the
European Union to form a barrier to
migration after more than a million
people came through here in 2015-16,
heading to western Europe.
But with 7,000 inhabitants, the refugee
camp at Moria is now three times over
capacity, and outbreaks of violence, often
triggered by trivial disputes, are
increasingly common. A clinic run by the
aid group Doctors Without Borders helps
treat the sick among the camp’s 2,000
children, but has to turn less serious cases
away.
Even so, more keep arriving: The number
of island arrivals has surged this year
from about 50 a day in 2017 to around
200 a day in recent weeks. Asylum
applications are backed up by nearly
three years, according to Lesbos’ regional
governor.
May 2, 2018
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Refugees burn garbage in an old
Greek army machine-gun nest, at
a makeshift camp outside Moria
on the northeastern Aegean
island of Lesbos, Greece on
Tuesday, May 2, 2018. (AP
Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
May 2, 2018
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A Syrian woman cooks food on an
open fire at a makeshift camp
outside Moria on the northeastern
Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece
on Tuesday, May 2, 2018. (AP
May 2, 2018
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Syrian children play outside their family
tent at a makeshift camp outside Moria
on the northeastern Aegean island of
Lesbos, Greece on Tuesday, May 2, 2018.
(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Many island residents are angry to be
missing out on a tourism boom that’s
helping the country emerge from a
decade of financial crisis. Business
owners closed their stores for 24 hours in
protest at the government visit, and
street protests turned violent.
“We all welcomed the refugees. But
there is a problem and it has to be taken
seriously ... We have a good quality of
life here and it’s been taken away,” said
Akis Argiropoulos, a hotel manager in
the island’s capital, Mytilene. “Without
the proper facilities and policing, the
island cannot handle all of this burden.”
May 2, 2018
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Islanders hold a placard which reads in Greek "SOS Moria. Solution now" referring
to the Moria refugee camp, in a protest during a visit by Greek Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos on Thursday, May 3,
2018 "(Migrants) enter illegally, they have to leave" one of the protesters shouted.
Islanders are angry at Greek and European Union migration policy, which has left
thousands of people stranded on the island. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Currently, asylum seekers on five Aegean
Sea islands _ Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros,
and Kos _ are banned from traveling onto
the Greek mainland as part of the European
Union’s controversial “containment policy.”
That’s causing severe overcrowding at the
islands’ camps, and the government has
faced legal challenges and protests against
the measure.
Meanwhile, to try and bypass the islands, an
even higher number of migrants and
refugees is now crossing Greece’s heavily
militarized land border with Turkey in the
northeast of the country.
That has forced the Greece to overhaul its
policy, and parliament is now debating draft
legislation aimed at easing pressure on the
islands. Under the proposal, migrants would
be allowed to move to camps on the Greek
mainland, but they would remain under
restriction and could be banned from
leaving the regions of the country where
they are placed.
May 3, 2018
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A man sits on a chair outside a closed coffee shop in the town of
Mytilene on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece
on Thursday, May 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
The plan has already drawn fire from
human rights groups which argue that
containment is to blame for poor living
conditions on the islands.
“This situation causes distress, violates
people’s rights, and insults the dignity
of some of the world’s most vulnerable
people. It’s an open wound for Greece
and human rights,” Dimitra
Spatharidou, from the Greek office of
Amnesty International, told a
parliamentary committee.
Amnesty observers recently visited
island camps, and found hundreds of
people sleeping in makeshift tents,
children sleeping in unsupervised sites,
and some resting in fields they say were
overrun by rates.
May 3, 2018
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“We saw dozens of men with papers in their hand saying they were suffering from
depression, anxiety disorders, and had suicidal dispositions; terrified women at risk of
sexual violence in a European country that should be providing them with safety,”
Spatharidou said.
The government has also promised to speed up the processing of asylum claims by
streamlining procedures and hiring additional staff and translators. But new arrivals on
Lesbos and other islands are far outpacing the number of people being transported to the
mainland on compassionate grounds or because their asylum applications have been
approved.
Spread over a hillside, Moria’s shoebox-shaped trailers and tents are home to refugees
from Syria, Iraq, Congo, and over 50 other of the world’s black spots of war and hardship.
The camp, crowded but still generally kept in good order, spills into the neighboring fields,
where asylum seekers _ mostly African men _ have little hope of leaving.

A refugee sits on a bollard in the port of
Mytilene as islanders gather to protest
against the government and European
Union migration policy which has left
thousands of people stranded on the
island on Thursday, May 3, 2018. (AP
May 3, 2018
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A woman looks out of a window of
a prefabricated house in the sector
of Moria Camp reserved to single
women traveling alone in the
island of Lesbos, Greece on Friday,
May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros
Giannakouris)
May 4, 2018
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Two men watch the ferry
leaving the port of Mytilene on
the northeastern Aegean island
of Lesbos, Greece on Thursday,
May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros
Giannakouris)
May 4, 2018
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Migrants and refugees wait
outside the European Asylum
Support Service offices inside
the camp of Moria on the
northeastern Aegean island
of Lesbos, Greece on Friday,
May 4, 2018. (AP
May 4, 2018
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Serafin from Togo, who was too afraid to appear on camera or give his last name, sleeps in a
child-sized bunk bed. There are 70 more bunks like his wrapped in gray blankets for privacy and
crammed into a single tent they call Little Turkey.
“It’s not easy, not easy at all. You can see where we sleep. And the smell,” he said, abruptly
overcome by melancholy when asked about his prospects. “I don’t know what will happen. I
miss my family.”
The island containment policy started two years ago, when the massive flow of migrants was
halted. The EU encouraged countries on the route west to close their borders, asked NATO to
patrol the eastern Aegean Sea, and pledged 6 billion euros ($7.1 billion) to Turkey to hold back
migrants and accept deportations from Greece.
EU countries accepted 22,000 refugees from Greece since the agreement between the EU and
Turkey was reached, while just 2,000 were deported to Turkey. That failed to offset new arrivals,
and more than 16,000 migrants remain on the islands while more than 40,000 are on the
mainland. A planned new round of resettlement has been complicated by the refusal of several
EU members including Hungary and Poland to join the scheme.

Children play as a woman walks inside the
camp of Moria on the northeastern Aegean
island of Lesbos, Greece on Friday, May 4,
2018. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
May 4, 2018
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A woman walks with her baby
as migrants and refugees wait
outside UNHCR offices for their
papers inside the camp of
Moria on Lesbos, Greece on
Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP
May 4, 2018
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Newly arrived migrants and
refugees wait to be registered by
authorities in Moria Camp, on
Lesbos, Greece on Friday, May 4,
2018 (AP Photo/Petros
Giannakouris)
May 4, 2018
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A Syrian man reads inside his tent
at a makeshift camp outside
Moria on the northeastern
Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece
on Saturday, May 5, 2018. (AP
May 5, 2018
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Refugees and migrants sit on the top of a container at a makeshift
camp outside Moria on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos,
Greece on Saturday May 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Dimitris Vitsas, Greece’s migration minister,
told parliament the new measures will
need several months to take full effect.
“A period of difficultly lies ahead. We are
fully aware of that fact,” he warned
lawmakers.
Vitsas traveled to Lesbos last week, along
with another 19 members of the Cabinet
and the prime minister, to promise more
help to the island, from improvements in
the ambulance service to faster farm
subsidy payments.
In a town hall meeting, Vitsas was berated
by island residents complaining about
petty crimes that have risen since the
camps opened, and others who said they
felt their goodwill toward people fleeing
war had been exploited by Greek and
European policy-makers.
May 5, 2018
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The moon rises above a huge
pile of discarded life vests and
dinghies used by migrants and
refugees crossing from the
nearby Turkish coast, at a dump
on the island of Lesbos on
Saturday, May 5, 2018. (AP
May 5, 2018
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Tombstones marking the
graves of migrants and
refugees who drowned at sea
while crossing from nearby
Turkey are seen at a cemetery
near the village Kato Tritos on
the northeastern Aegean
Saturday, May 5, 2018. (AP
May 5, 2018
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An Ethiopian Christian priest
blesses another refugee
during a Sunday mass
outside an orthodox church
near Moria camp in the
Sunday, May 6, 2018. (AP
TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY,
LESBOS: EUROPE’S MIGRANT BARRIER
NEARS BREAKING POINT, BY DEREK
GATOPOULOS.
PHOTOS BY PETROS GIANNAKOURIS
May 6, 2018
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May 7, 2018

Refugees and migrants were
rescued by members of the
Spanish NGO Proactiva Open
Arms this Sunday, after leaving
Libya trying to reach European
soil aboard an overcrowded
rubber boat, north of Libyan
coast.
In total 105 refugees and migrants
from Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria,
Marrocos, Gana, Pakistan, Sudan,
Libya, Eritrea and Senegal were
rescued in the overcrowded rubber
boat.
Photographer Felipe Dana was on
assignment documenting the
rescue:
May 7 , 2018

May 7 , 2018

Photos by Felipe Dana
May 7 , 2018

A worker hangs a road sign directing to the
U.S. embassy, in the area of the U.S.
consulate in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ronen
ZvulunMay 7 , 2018

Policemen detain an opposition supporter
during a protest ahead of President Vladimir
Putin's inauguration ceremony, Moscow,
Russia. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
May 7 , 2018

Christian Kaufman, 9, walks past an
American flag while carrying a airsoft gun in
a holster during an open carry firearm rally
on the sidelines of the annual National Rifle
Association (NRA) meeting in Dallas, Texas.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
May 7 , 2018

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
waves to the fans after the match
against Burnley. Action Images via
Reuters/Matthew Childs details.
May 7 , 2018

Spain's Garbine Muguruza in action
against China's Shuai Peng during their
round of 64 match at the Madrid Open.
REUTERS/Susana Vera
May 7 , 2018

Real Madrid's Cristiano
Ronaldo scores their first goal
against FC Barcelona.
REUTERS/Sergio Perez
May 7 , 2018

Chelsea's Hannah Blundell in action with
Arsenal's Beth Mead during the Women's
FA Cup Final. Action Images via
Reuters/Tony O'Brien
May 7 , 2018

Manchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko reacts as
the trophy falls to the floor as players and staff
celebrate winning the premier league title. Action
Images via Reuters/Carl Recine
May 7 , 2018

A Mexican wearing a period costume fires a
homemade shotgun during a re-enactment
of the battle of Puebla, along the streets in
the Penon de los Banos neighbourhood of
Mexico City. REUTERS/Henry Romero
May 7 , 2018

A woman who identified herself as Pretana Morgan, the
mother of shooting victim, named by local media as
Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, is comforted as she visits the
scene where her son died on Saturday, in London.
REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
May 7 , 2018

A relative of a Palestinian who was killed at
the Israel-Gaza border reacts at a hospital, in
the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem
Abu Mustafa
May 7 , 2018

Women practice slacklining on
Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
May 7 , 2018

People ride on a swing carousel as part of
the traditional celebration of Saint
George's Day in Strumica, eastern
Macedonia. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
May 7 , 2018

Maria Vasilevich (C) reacts during the awards
ceremony after winning the Miss Belarus
2018 beauty contest in Minsk, Belarus.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
May 7 , 2018

President Trump's former campaign manager
Paul Manafort departs U.S. District Court after
a motions hearing in Alexandria, Virginia.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
May 7 , 2018

A participant in the Tweed Run cycle ride
pulls away from an ice cream van in
London. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
May 7 , 2018

The Met Gala
Rihanna arrives at the Met Gala to celebrate the
opening of �Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the
Catholic Imagination� in Manhattan, New York,
May 7, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
May 7 , 2018
The Met Gala 2018

Rapper Cardi B. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
May 7 , 2018

Kendall Jenner. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
May 7 , 2018

Jennifer Lopez. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
May 7 , 2018

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
May 7 , 2018
Gigi Hadid. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Eiza González
— Carlo Allegri / Reuters
May 7 , 2018

George and Amal Clooney
"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and
the Catholic Imagination"
opens Thursday and runs
through Oct. 8. The museum’s
annual spring fashion exhibit
is the biggest one yet,
spanning a full 25 galleries and
stretching from the
Metropolitan on Fifth Avenue
to its Cloisters branch in upper
Manhattan.
— Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
May 7 , 2018
Zoë Kravitz
— Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Lili Reinhart
Celebrities were advised that the dress
code Monday night was "Sunday Best."
"It's an implicit plea to dress somewhat
more modestly," said the show’s
curator, Andrew Bolton.
— Eduardo Munoz / Image: The Met
Gala 2018
May 7 , 2018

Solange Knowles. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
May 7 , 2018
Naomi Watts
— Evan Agostini / AP

Eurovision: the contenders
Cyprus's Eleni Foureira.�
REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
May 7 , 2018

Azerbaijan's Aisel. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
May 7 , 2018

Israel's Netta.� REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
May 7 , 2018

San Marino's Jessika. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
May 7 , 2018

Slovenia's Lea Sirk. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
May 7 , 2018

Reuters / Monday, May 07, 2018
A man takes photographs of a wreckage
of trucks carrying signs after the
vehicles were, according to local media,
set ablazed by an angry mob when
political workers belonging to the
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Imran
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
clashed with each other in Karachi,
Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
May 7 , 2018

A Day in the Life of Douma, Syria

A man and a boy ride a motorbike in the
city of Douma on the outskirts of
Damascus, Syria. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
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The former rebel Syrian town of Douma following a blistering two-month offensive on the
rebel enclave. At the start of the year, Eastern Ghouta was a sprawling semi-rural area just
east of Damascus, home to almost 400,000 inhabitants. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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A labyrinth of tunnels under Eastern Ghouta which was
used by rebel fighters. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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Children exiting a section of a labyrinth of tunnels
under Eastern Ghouta which was used by rebel fighters.
STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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Civilians walk in the former rebel Syrian town of
Douma on the outskirts of Damascus after the Syrian
army declared that all anti-regime forces have left
Eastern Ghouta. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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A boy sits in a chair along a damaged
street in Douma. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
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A girl and a man look out of a damaged building
in Douma. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
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Rubble fills a street in Douma, the site of
a suspected chemical weapons attack,
near Damascus. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
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A man walks on crutches in the city of
Douma. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
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Syrian authorities distribute
bread, vegetables and pasta
to Douma residents. Two
days after Syrian troops
declared Douma liberated
from opposition fighters, a
tour in the city showed the
wide destruction it has
suffered since falling under
rebel control six years ago.
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
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Civilians walk in the former
rebel Syrian town of Douma on
the outskirts of Damascus.
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The former rebel Syrian town of Douma on
the outskirts of Damascus following a
blistering two-month offensive on the
rebel enclave. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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People receive bread in the city of Douma. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
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A Syrian child is vaccinated during a measles
campaign in Al-Bab district of Aleppo after
fleeing from Douma. Omer Alven/Anadolu
Agency/Getty Images
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Civilians ride a horse cart in Douma on the
outskirts of Damascus.
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People hold their belongings as they walk in the
rubble of damaged buildings in the city of Douma.
REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
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Part of the destruction in the town of
Douma. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
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Members of the Syrian police hold their
weapons as they sit on a back of a truck in
GALLLERY PHOTOS

A Syrian firefighter inside the destroyed
Scientific Research Centre in Damascus.
REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
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A man walks just meters away from where the
alleged chemical weapons attack occurred in
the town of Douma. AP Photo/Hassan AmmarGALLLERY PHOTOS

Rubble lines a street in Douma. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
GALLLERY PHOTOS

A boy walks along a damaged street in
Douma. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
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Damaged buildings in Douma. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
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A family rides on a motorbike
along a damaged street in
GALLLERY PHOTOS

Men load a carpet and mattress onto a
bicycle in front of damaged buildings in
Douma. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
GALLLERY PHOTOS

A general view of Douma on the outskirts of Damascus after the Syrian army
declared that all anti-regime forces have left Eastern Ghouta, following a blistering
two-month offensive on the rebel enclave. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
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Resident Stacy Welch checks
the heat rising from a fissure
near her home, which remains
standing, in the Leilani Estates
neighborhood on May 7.
May 7 , 2018

Welch inspects lava next to a
destroyed home located 250-feet
from her home in the Leilani
Estates neighborhood on May 7.
The volcano has spewed lava and
high levels of sulfur dioxide gas
into communities, leading
officials to order 1,700 to
evacuate.
Leilani Estates residents have
been allowed to return during
the day to inspect property and
remove belongings. Officials
have confirmed 35 structures
have now been destroyed by lava
in Leilani Estates.
May 7 , 2018

May 8, 2018

A pedestrian walks during a heavy snowfall in the Siberian
town of Divnogorsk, Russia. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
May 8 , 2018

A police officer and schoolchildren take part in an
anti-terrorism drill at a primary school in Huaibei,
Anhui province, China. REUTERS/Stringer
May 8 , 2018

A view of a part of the presidential compound
after it was hit by air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen.
REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahMay 8 , 2018

Katy Perry arrives at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in
Manhattan. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
May 8 , 2018

Ngo Chien Thuat, a traditional health worker,
bends a metal pole by pressing it into his eye as
he performs during a showcase of the traditional
Thien Mon Dao kung fu at Du Xa Thuong village in
Vietnam. REUTERS/Kham
May 8 , 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks
before an inauguration ceremony at the
Kremlin in Moscow. Alexander
Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS
May 8 , 2018

Madonna arrives at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art Costume Institute
Gala. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
May 8 , 2018

Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of
Wales, paints a perfumed duck-
shaped bar of soap during his visit to
the Parfumerie Fragonard laboratory
plant in Eze, near Nice, France. Boris
Horvat/Pool via Reuters
May 8 , 2018

Syrian refugees from Afrin who crossed the Evros
river, the natural border between Greece and
Turkey, walk on the road at the village of Nea
Vyssa, Greece. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
May 8 , 2018

Lava engulfs a Ford Mustang in
Puna, Hawaii. WXCHASING via
REUTERS
May 8 , 2018

Residents of the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna
Gardens subdivisions, who were evacuated
from their homes due to eruptions of the
Kilauea Volcano, pick up supplies at a
community donation center in Pahoa, Hawaii.
REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
May 8 , 2018

Volunteers and evacuees hold hands
while praying before serving dinner at
a makeshift donation center on May 8
in Pahoa.
— Jae C. Hong / AP
May 8 , 2018

U.S. Army National Guard First Lt. Aaron
Hew Len takes measurements for sulfur
dioxide gas at volcanic fissures in the
Leilani Estates neighborhood on May 8.
May 8 , 2018

Participants gather for the annual May
bank holiday "Jack In The Green" parade
and festival in Hastings, Britain.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
May 8 , 2018

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Ruben
Neves celebrates with the trophy
on the open top bus during the
parade to mark their return to the
Premier League. Action Images via
Reuters/Craig Brough
May 8 , 2018

A man walks with flowers during an event
to commemorate the victims of Nazism in
World War II, at the memorial in Salaspils,
Latvia. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
May 8 , 2018

Worshippers and mourners attend the Requiem Mass for Father Albert
Toungoumale-Baba, a Roman Catholic priest killed last week at the Notre
Dame of Fatima Church in Bangui, Central African Republic. REUTERS/Paul
Lorgerie
May 8 , 2018

A firefighter walks next to a burned bus
in downtown Rome, Italy.
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
May 8 , 2018

Venezuela's President Nicolas
Maduro walks next to
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas during their meeting at
the Miraflores Palace in
Caracas. REUTERS/Carlos
Garcia Rawlins
May 8 , 2018

Estonia’s Elina Nechayeva
performs ‘La Forza’ during the
Semi-Final 1 for Eurovision
Song Contest 2018 at the
Altice Arena hall in Lisbon,
Portugal. REUTERS/Pedro
Nunes
May 8 , 2018

Israel’s Netta performs ‘Toy’ during
the Semi-Final 1. REUTERS/Pedro
Nunes
May 8 , 2018

Lithuania’s Ieva Zasimauskaite
performs .When We’re Old’ during the
Semi-Final 1. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
May 8 , 2018

Reuters / Tuesday, May 08, 2018
Fireworks explode over the statue
Motherland Calls, a World War Two memorial
located on the top of Mamayev Kurgan hill,
during a light and laser show dedicated to the
73rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi
Germany in World War Two, in Volgograd,
Russia. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
May 8 , 2018

Reuters / Tuesday, May 08, 2018
Poonsri Seangnual, 63, who
studies at the School for the
Elderly in Chiang Rak Noi
subdistrict, leaves her house
wearing her school uniform, in
Ayutthaya, Thailand. "I really like
going to school. I gained
knowledge and it's really fun. I
have a lot of friends, know a lot
more people," said Seangnual. "I
feel lonely whenever I don't go to
school, I want to go back and
meet my friends. I miss the
classroom." REUTERS/Athit
Perawongmetha
May 8 , 2018

May 9, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a
proclamation declaring his intention to withdraw
from the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement after
signing it in the Diplomatic Room at the White
House. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
May 9 , 2018

A man who illegally crossed the Mexico-U.S.
border evades a U.S. Border Patrol agent
near McAllen, Texas. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
May 9 , 2018

An Indian police officer fires a tear gas shell towards
demonstrators, during a protest against the recent
killings in Kashmir, in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
May 9 , 2018

Migrants, part of a group intercepted aboard a
dinghy off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea,
rest after arriving on a rescue boat at the port of
Malaga, Spain. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
May 9 , 2018

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
meets with China's President Xi
Jinping, in Dalian, China. KCNA/via
REUTERS
May 9 , 2018

The sun is seen through the giant Ferris
wheel at Place de la Concorde at sunset in
Paris. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
May 9 , 2018

A woman carrying her belongings walks past
partially damaged houses after Monday's strong
winds and dust storm, in Agartala, India.
REUTERS/Jayanta Dey
May 9 , 2018

Lava is seen from a fissure appearing
behind a resident's backyard in Puna,
Hawaii. KEITH BROCK/via REUTERS
May 9 , 2018

An Iraqi student walks past a school wall
covered with drawings showing how Islamic
State militants executed their prisoners in
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
May 9 , 2018

A horse drawn carriage is driven
down the Long Walk towards
Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain.
May 9 , 2018

Mahathir Mohamad, former Malaysian
prime minister and opposition candidate
for Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope),
holds up an ink-stained finger as he
votes during the general election in Alor
Setar, Malaysia. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
May 9 , 2018

A model holds The Farnese Blue, an
unknown historic blue diamond to be
sold for first time in 300 years, during a
preview of Sotheby's auction sale in
Geneva, Switzerland. REUTERS/Pierre
Albouy
May 9 , 2018

Russia marks Victory Day
Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar
Vucic and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu watch the Victory
Day parade in Moscow. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS
May 9 , 2018

Russian servicemen drive Koalitsiya-SV
self-propelled howitzers during the Victory
Day parade in Moscow. REUTERS/Sergei
Karpukhin
May 9 , 2018

Russian servicewomen march during the Victory
Day parade at Red Square in Moscow. Maxim
Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS
May 9 , 2018

Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day
parade at Red Square in Moscow. Maxim
Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS
May 9 , 2018

Russian servicemen drive military
vehicles during the Victory Day parade in
Moscow. REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovMay 9 , 2018

Reuters / Wednesday, May 09,
2018
Russian army MiG-29 jet
fighters of the Strizhi (Swifts)
and Su-30 jet fighters of the
Russkiye Vityazi (Russian
Knights) aerobatic teams fly in
formation during the Victory
Day parade, marking the 73rd
anniversary of the victory over
Nazi Germany in World War
Two, in central Moscow.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
May 9 , 2018

Veterans sing inside the retro train named Pobeda (Victory) during the Victory Day
celebrations in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev
May 9 , 2018

Best of Cannes
Director Asghar Farhadi, cast members
Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo
Darin during the photocall for the film
"Everybody Knows" (Todos lo saben) May 9,
2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 9 , 2018

Chantel Jeffries poses during the
screening of the film ‘Yomeddine’
May 9, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
May 9 , 2018
Barbara Meier arrives for the
opening ceremony and screening of
the film "Everybody Knows" May 8,
2018. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Marica Pellegrinelli poses during the
screening of the film ‘Yomeddine’ May
9, 2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 9 , 2018

Actor Wang Likun and Kiko Mizuhara
pose during the screening of the film
‘Yomeddine’ May 9, 2018.
REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 9 , 2018

Chantel Jeffries arrives for the
opening ceremony and screening
of the film "Everybody Knows".
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
May 9 , 2018

An ash plume rises from the
Halemaumau crater at the
summit of the Kilauea
volcano on May 9, 2018.
There is an increased chance
of explosive eruptions from
the Kilauea volcano in
Hawaii that could shoot
rocks for miles and bring
ashfall covering potentially
dozens of miles, the U.S.
Geological Survey said
Wednesday.
— Mario Tama / Getty
Images
Lava consumes homes as Hawaii's Kilauea
volcano eruptsMay 9 , 2018

Lava cools in a resident's yard
in the Leilani Estates
subdivision during ongoing
eruptions of the Kilauea
volcano on May 8.
— Terray Sylvester / Reuters
May 9 , 2018

Lava and downed power lines
block a road in the Leilani Estates
subdivision during ongoing
eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano,
Hawaii. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
May 9 , 2018

Reuters / Wednesday, May 09,
2018
A girl and woman gesture to
make a promise over a cement
block symbolising a border line
as they mimic a handshake
between North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un and South Korean
President Moon Jae-in at the
summit in late April, at the
replica of the truce village of
Panmunjom at a movie studio in
Namyangju, South Korea.
REUTERS/Kwak Sung-Kyung
May 9, 2018

Iranian lawmakers burn two pieces of
paper representing the U.S. flag and the
nuclear deal at parliament in Tehran, Iran,
on May 9. Lawmakers held the impromptu
demonstration shouting "Death to
America!" the day after President Donald
Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal.
— AP
May 9, 2018

May 10, 2018

Head model maker Paula Laughton poses
with a LEGO Windsor Castle replete with
the royal wedding between Britain's Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle, in Windsor.
REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
May 10, 2018

Waxwork models of Britain's Prince Harry
and his fiancee Meghan Markle are seen on
display at Madame Tussauds in London.
May 10, 2018

Pope Francis arrives for his
pastoral visit in Nomadelfia,
central Italy. REUTERS/Max Rossi
May 10, 2018

Deposits are seen on a road in
Puna, Hawaii. Apau Hawaii
Tours/via REUTERS
May 10, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's
King Felipe and former winners of the
Charlemagne Prize sing during a ceremony
where French President Emmanuel Macron
(not pictured) was awarded with the prize in
Aachen, Germany. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
May 10, 2018

Women walk past shops in
Manbej, in Aleppo countryside,
Syria. REUTERS/Aboud Hamam
May 10, 2018

A woman hangs clothes to dry in
Raqqa, Syria. REUTERS/Aboud
HamamMay 10, 2018

Acting CIA Director Gina Haspel testifies at
her Senate Intelligence Committee
confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in
Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
May 10, 2018

Washington Nationals first baseman Matt
Adams breaks his bat lining out in the
seventh inning against the San Diego Padres.
Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports
May 10, 2018

Reuters / Thursday, May 10, 2018
Activists from Swadeshi Jagran
Manch, a wing of Hindu nationalist
organisation Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), scuffle
with police during a protest against
U.S. retailer Walmart's majority
stake buy in Indian e-commerce
firm Flipkart, in New Delhi, India.
REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
May 10, 2018

Balinese artists dressed in decorative
costumes take part in the Maritime
Festival at Pandawa Beach on the resort
island of Bali, Indonesia.
REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo
May 10, 2018

David Goodall, 104, reacts
during a news conference a day
before he intends to take his
own life in assisted suicide, in
Basel, Switzerland.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
May 10, 2018

Mahathir Mohamad, former Malaysian
prime minister and opposition candidate
for Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope)
reacts during a news conference after
general election, in Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
May 10, 2018

Sister Kate and Sister Claire pose on
the beach to promote the
documentary film "Breaking
Habits" at the Cannes Film Festival.
REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
May 10, 2018

A demonstrator holds a tear gas canister fired by
Israeli forces during a protest where Palestinians
demand the right to return to their homeland, at
the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza
Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
May 10, 2018

Best of Cannes
Lupita Nyong'o arrives for the
screening of the film Sorry Angel
(Plaire, aimer et courir vite) May 10,
2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 10, 2018

Irina Shayk arrives for the screening of the
film Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 10, 2018

Amber Heard and Deepika Padukone
pose as they arrive for the screening of
the film Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et
courir vite) May 10, 2018.
REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
May 10, 2018

Araya Hargate arrives for the screening of the
film Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 10, 2018

Cate Blanchett, Jury�President�of
the 71st�Cannes�Film Festival,
poses. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 10, 2018

Souad Arsane and Inas Chanti
pose during the photocall for
the film ‘A genoux les gars’.
REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
May 10, 2018

An Israeli soldier stands next to signs pointing out
distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an
observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the
Quneitra crossing, Israel. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
May 10, 2018

Israel attacks Iranian targets in Syria
Missile fire is seen over Daraa, Syria on
Thursday. Israel said it attacked nearly
all of Iran's military infrastructure in
Syria after Iranian forces fired rockets
at Israeli-held territory for the first
time. REUTERS/Alaa al Faqir
May 10, 2018

Missile fire is seen from Damascus,
Syria. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
May 10, 2018

An exploded missile is seen over Damascus, Syria. SANA/via Reuters
May 10, 2018

Missile fire is seen over Daraa,
Syria. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir
May 10, 2018

Missiles fire is seen over
Damascus, Syria. Hezbollah
Media Office/via Reuters
May 10, 2018

Missile fire is seen from Damascus,
Syria. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018

Turkey holds military drills
Turkish marines take part in a live fire drill
during the EFES-2018 Military Exercise near
the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey May 10,
2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

Turkish Army helicopters take
part in a live fire drill.
REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

Turkish and U.S. marines take part in a
live fire drill. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

A Turkish Army helicopter takes part in
a live fire drill. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

Turkish troops take part in a live
fire drill. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

Turkish marines take part in a live fire
drill during the EFES-2018 Military
Exercise near the Aegean port city of
Izmir, Turkey. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

Turkish troops take part in a live fire
drill. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 10, 2018

One of the Americans formerly held hostage
in North Korea gestures next to President
Trump and first lady Melania Trump, upon
their arrival at Joint Base Andrews,
Maryland. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Trump welcomes prisoners
released by North KoreaMay 10, 2018

President Trump and first lady
Melania meet the three Americans
released from detention in North
Korea. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
May 10, 2018

The three Americans formerly held
hostage in North Korea gesture next to
President Trump and Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
May 10, 2018

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Best friends, they grew up together. When rebels attacked, they fought together. Eighteen years
old and without a day of military training, they picked up Kalashnikovs and went to defend the
front line in Yemen’s southern city of Aden.
It was a rite of passage for Osama Ahmed and Ahmed Saleh, a moment for the teens to prove
their manhood in a society where every man has a gun and is expected to know how to use it.
The day he left for battle, Osama said his mother told him, “Son, I worry about you and want
you near me. But if every mother thinks this way, no one will go and fight for us ... Do not leave
your friends.”
The 2015 Battle for Aden turned out to be a brutal, scarring experience. Today, three years later,
Osama and Ahmed wander a shattered city, disillusioned. They have no jobs, hopes or
prospects. Nights, they sit on the beach and watch the moon on the waves of the Arabian Sea,
chewing qat _ a narcotic leaf _ and dreaming of leaving Yemen.

In this Feb. 18, 2018 photo,
21-year olds and best
friends Osama Ahmed,
center, and Ahmed Saleh,
who both fought during
the '2015 battle of Aden'
look at their mobile phones
as they chew Qat on the
beach, in Aden, Yemen. (AP
Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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“My friends and I, all we think about these days is how to get out,” Osama said. “It doesn’t feel like it will get any better in our lifetime.”
Yemen’s civil war has chewed up and spat out a generation of youth. Fighters on all sides are often minors, some as young as 12, dragged
into what many see as a cynical fight between Iranian-backed rebels known as Houthis and a U.S.-backed coalition led by Saudi Arabia
nominally supporting the government. Three years of war with no end in sight has wrecked Yemen, causing death, displacement, economic
collapse, hunger and disease.
The Battle of Aden began in March 2015, when the Houthis, who overran the north the previous year, stormed south and attacked Aden, the
last bastion of the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
For Osama, Ahmed and their friends, it wasn’t a fight for Hadi, it was for the south against the north; southern Yemen was once independent
and separatist sentiment remains powerful. So they joined other volunteers, militiamen and pro-Hadi army units to battle the rebels.
They took positions in Khormaksar, a neighborhood blocking the way to the heart of Aden, which stands at the end of a peninsula offshore.
There were 14 in Osama’s group, armed with seven automatic rifles that they rotated among themselves.
They and the others stood little chance. Rebels blasted them with tanks and artillery and snipers. For weeks, the defenders were pushed
back neighborhood by neighborhood into the dead end of the peninsula. It was vicious urban fighting. Osama and Ahmed saw friends blown
apart by rockets and mines, along with women and children. They sweltered in summer heat, thirsty and despairing.
Finally, rescue came. Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched their campaign of airstrikes and sent weapons, money and training to pro-Hadi
fighters. With their backing, fighters were able to drive back the rebels.

In this Feb. 10, 2018 photo, a boy sits
in a damages car due to the on-going
three year conflict in Mocha, Yemen.
(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Fighting has since moved to provinces north of Aden. But the city has only further fallen apart.
Militias pervade Aden and, as they multiply, corruption has proliferated. The United Arab Emirates has taken
advantage of the fight and now dominates the south, squeezing out its ostensive ally, Hadi. Over the past year,
open warfare has broken out in Aden’s streets between pro-UAE and pro-Hadi militias.
To Osama and Ahmed, any veneer of a patriotic fight is gone; all they see is greed and self-interest. “We had
hopes and dreams,” Osama said. “(But) we’ve realized that everyone is running toward power and fame.”
“It’s a war over money,” Ahmed said. For everyone else, “there are no salaries, no food, no water.”
The most reliable employment is as a fighter in one of the militias, flush with funds from their international
patrons. Otherwise, jobless men hang around all day in the streets.
Mohammed Abu Hassan, a 30-year-old who also fought in the Battle of Aden, can’t bear to look at a weapon.
“Everyone is killing everyone,” he said. “What did we gain out of all this? Nothing.”

This Feb. 18, 2018 photo, shows the high school of 21-year olds and
best friends Osama Ahmed and Ahmed Saleh, who both fought during
the '2015 Aden battle' in Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 17, 2018 photo, 30-year-old
Mohammed Abu Hassan who fought during the
'2015 battle of Aden' holds his rifle, on a beach in
Aden, Yemen. "Enough violence I hate it. Aden
now is full of militias. Everyone is killing everyone.
What did we gain out of all this? nothing .. This is
not for God. This is all about people’s selfish
interest,” he says. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 12, 2018 photo, young
Saudi-led backed forces, part of Ahmed
Al-Kawkabani's southern resistance
unit in Hodeida, petrol al-Khoukha,
Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 16, 2018
photo, youth gather in
martyrs square during
the seventh
anniversary of the
independence of the
South from the rule of
Ali Abdullah Saleh in
Aden, Yemen. (AP
Photo/Nariman El-
Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

21 year-old Ahmed Saleh,
who fought during the
'2015 battle of Aden' looks
at himself in the mirror in
his bedroom, at his home
in Aden, Yemen. (AP
GALLLERY PHOTOS

Ahmed al-Kawkabani, center,
leader of the southern
resistance unit in Hodeida
poses for photo with his 16-
year old son Shaeeb, left, and
his 8-year old Abdullah, at
their home in al-Khoukha,
Yemen. "My son wants to join
me but I try to tell him to focus
on school. He finishes school
changes from his uniform and
takes his rifle," the father said.
(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 17, 2018 photo, 21-year olds and best friends
Osama Ahmed, center, and Ahmed Saleh, left, who both
fought during the '2015 battle of Aden' hang out with their
friends who also fought during the battle in their
neighborhood under their homes, in Aden, Yemen. (AP
GALLLERY PHOTOS

This Feb. 17, 2018 photo,
shows a mobile photo of
then 18-year old Ahmed
Saleh, left, with his friend
during the '2015 battle of
Aden' and Arabic that
reads, "marry me or I will
go with Al Qaida," in
Aden, Yemen. (AP
GALLLERY PHOTOS

21-year old Ahmed Saleh,
right, and 30-year-old
Mohammed Abu Hassan,
look at the Qat they just
bought at a market, in Aden,
Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman
El-Mofty)
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 18, 2018 photo, 21-year olds and best
friends Osama Ahmed, right, and Ahmed Saleh, who
both fought during the '2015 battle of Aden' pray in
front of the tombstone of their friend who was killed
during the war, at the Al-Rahma graveyard in Aden,
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 17, 2018 photo, shows the rifle and
body armor used by Osama Ahmed, during the
'2015 battle of Aden' on his bed in his room, at his
home in Aden, Yemen. "As a Yemeni citizen you
can't leave the country - we are listed as terrorists -
we had dreams and wanted to do things with our
lives. There are no opportunity for the youth, we
just want to live in peace without violence," he
said. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) in Aden,
GALLLERY PHOTOS

In this Feb. 18, 2018 photo, 21-year olds and
best friends Osama Ahmed, left, and Ahmed
Saleh, who both fought during the '2015 battle
of Aden' chew Qat and chill by the beach, in
Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
PHOTOS AND TEXT BY NARIMAN EL-MOFTY
GALLLERY PHOTOS

People gather in front of the broken banks of the Patel dam near
Solai, Kenya, on May 10. At least 44 were dead and another 40
were missing Thursday after a dam swollen by weeks of seasonal
rains burst in Kenya's Rift Valley, sweeping away hundreds of
homes and sending people fleeing.
It was the deadliest single incident yet in the seasonal rains that
have killed more than 170 people in Kenya since March. The
floods hit as the East African nation was recovering from a severe
drought that affected half of the country.
— AP
May 10, 2018

May 11, 2018

A child walks in his house, which
was partly destroyed by flooding
water after a dam burst, in Solio
town near Nakuru, Kenya.
REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
May 11, 2018

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
attends a welcome ceremony
with Japan's Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe before their
bilateral meeting at Akasaka
Palace state guest house in
Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Toru
Hanai
May 11, 2018

Suspected smugglers load men,
women and children into a raft on
the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
just before illegally crossing the
Mexico-U.S. border near McAllen,
Texas. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
May 11, 2018

West Ham United's Mark Noble
clashes with Manchester United's
Paul Pogba. REUTERS/David Klein
May 11, 2018

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (inside
the car) leaves from Club Deportivo Palestino
soccer club after meeting in Santiago, Chile.
REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
May 11, 2018

Wounded soldiers who were deployed in Marawi attend a
yoga laughter session at a military-run hospital in Quezon
City, Metro Manila, Philippines. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao
May 11, 2018

A worker drags a water cannon as he
cleans the premises of Janaki Mandir,
a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess
Sita, where India's Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit on
Friday, in Janakpur, Nepal.
REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
May 11, 2018

A disabled man paddles his
tricycle as he moves past a row of
parked hand-pulled rickshaws in
Kolkata, India. REUTERS/Rupak De
Chowdhuri
May 11, 2018

The character of Chewbacca poses at
the premiere for the movie "Solo: A
Star Wars Story" in Los Angeles,
California. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
May 11, 2018
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May 5 – May 11, 2018
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