Category Archives: June 2016 – 1
Drought Heightens Seasonal Food Scarcity in Guatemala
Photos by Moises Castillo A prolonged drought has worsened the hunger problem among Guatemala’s heavily indigenous population.
June 13, 2016
Poor Bangladesh Kids Work to Eat and Help Families
Photos by A.M. Ahad Eleven-year-old Al Amin and his friends work 10 hours a day, six days a week, sawing aluminum sheets and pounding them into bowls and plates.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Ahead of Rio, Runners Re-enact Ancient Games
Photos by Yorgos Karahalis Fifty-five days before the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, athletes from around the world are taking part in very different kind of sporting tournament in southern Greece.
June 10, 2016
Syrian Refugee Children Labor in Turkish Factories
Photos by Lefteris Pitarakis & Text by Berza Simsek On any given summer day, the hot sun glares down on the streets of Gaziantep, a Turkish city on the border with Syria. Inside stifling garment and shoe workshops, Syrian refugee children are hard at work, sewing machines buzzing in the background.
Tubman Town
Photos by Mike Groll Harriet Tubman’s upcoming debut on the $20 bill is just half the good news in the upstate New York town where the Underground Railroad conductor settled down and grew old.
June 9, 2016
Patchy Reporting Undercuts National Hate Crimes Count
The knock on the door, strong and quick, jolted Barbara Hicks Collins awake.
June 8, 2016
Muhammad Ali Welcomed All to Pennsylvania Training Camp
He called himself “The Greatest,” but Muhammad Ali was humble, friendly and eminently approachable whenever he came to this out-of-the-way spot in northeastern Pennsylvania to train throughout the 1970s.
June 7, 2016
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
June 6, 2016
Syrian Children are Breadwinners in Lebanon
Photos by Bilal Hussein Thirteen-year-old Ali Rajab is on his feet an average of 12 hours a day, cleaning, filling perfume bottles and helping sell mobile phones at the shop in Beirut where he works.
Peru Snow Star Festival
Photos and Text by Rodrigo Abd Tens of thousands of pilgrims crowd an Andean valley, with dancers in multi-layered skirts and musicians with drums and flutes performing non-stop over three days.
June 1, 2016
Idomeni Migrant Camp, Before and After Bulldozers
Photos by Darko Bandic Once home to more than 14,000 refugees and migrants, the makeshift camp at Greece’s border village of Idomeni has now been evacuated and its former occupants transferred to other, supposedly better organized camps.
2 Judo Athletes From Congo Hope to Make Refugee Olympic Team
Photos by Felipe Dana For the first time, one of the teams competing in the Olympic Games will be made up of refugees who hail from different countries they no longer call home.
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