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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 28, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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A U.S. National Guardsman holds binoculars while surveilling from a hill overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, U.S., March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

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A Syrian refugee girl stands near tents at an informal settlement in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, December 13, 2024. REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar

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Britain's foreign aid: Where does the money go?

A resident enters a FEMA's improvised station to attend claims by local residents affected by floods following the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Marion, North Carolina, U.S., October 5, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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FEMA handles floods and fires: Can it weather Trump?

A man walks below Eskom's electricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa, March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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USAID cuts hurt debated energy plans in Africa

Cardinals stand, on the day of the translation of Pope Francis' body, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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How could the next Pope influence global LGBTQ+ rights?

People hold signs as the Supreme Court rules on whether a person with a full gender recognition certificate which recognises that their gender is female is a woman under British equality laws, outside the Supreme Court in London, Britain, April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

What does UK ruling on definition of woman mean for trans rights?

A doctor inoculates a person with a shot at a vaccination centre in the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany January 19, 2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi

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Mpox is on the rise in Berlin with gay men seen most at risk

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds hands with his wife Melania during his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for LGBTQ+ rights?

A farmer carries rice saplings in her field on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, India, February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Amit Dave

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Can parametric insurance change the game in climate disasters?

A member of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) walks near an ambulance and Israeli military vehicle, during a raid, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 28, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

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Leia Witoto, Gleice Mura and Lecia Witoto make clothes in Ateliê Derequine’s headquarters in Manaus, Brazil, March 12, 2025. Nathalie Brasil/Thomson Reuters Foundation

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This Indigenous fund in Brazil wants to take over nature finance

A NYPD officer pauses at the edge of the south reflecting pool at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum during ceremonies marking the 16th anniversary of the attacks in New York, U.S., September 11, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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A Batek indigenous woman, spends her evening in a hut along with other indigenous people, at the fringe of Malaysia's National Park in Gua Musang, Kelantan, Malaysia, May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain

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Riot police and prison guards on alert inside the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, April 4, 2025. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nelson Renteria

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A security camera overlooks a man as he walks down a street in London November 2, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Half London councils found using Chinese surveillance tech linked to Uighur abuses

Employees work at a call center in Davao city in southern Philippines December 13, 2016. Picture taken December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Lean Daval Jr

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Farmer Rita Bashar and her husband, Monoronjon, fill clay pitchers for drip irrigation with harvested rainwater. Rachel Parsons/Thomson Reuters Foundation

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