Oct 29 (Reuters) – Each week, Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia options and human-interest tales from world wide.
Under are some participating tales chosen by our editors, in addition to explanatory context and background that will help you perceive world occasions. For a full schedule of reports and occasions, please go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Join here.
Japan Ink: Rising tribe proudly defies tattoo taboo, hopes for Olympian enhance
TOKYO, Oct 26 – Shodai Horiren acquired her first tattoo as a lark on a visit to Australia almost three a long time in the past. Now, tattooed head to foot, even on her shaven scalp, she is one in every of Japan’s most famed conventional tattoo artists. (JAPAN-TATTOOS/ (PIX, TV, WIDER IMAGE), by Kim Kyung Hoon and Elaine Lies, 522 phrases)
Catalan cat shelter will get good to assist COVID orphans
BARCELONA, Oct 27 – Overflowing with growing older cats who misplaced their homeowners to the COVID-19 pandemic, Barcelona’s cat sanctuary El Jardinet dels Gats has launched a web-based marketing campaign to get them adopted. (HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/SPAIN-CATS (PIX, TV), moved, 264 phrases)
In Armenia, warfare refugees sleep tough within the diamonds
ABOVYAN, Oct 27 – In a manufacturing unit the place diamonds are reduce, Anna Osipyan and her two grandchildren discovered one thing much more treasured after fleeing their houses within the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh: shelter from the area’s worst preventing in nearly 30 years. (ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN/REFUGEES (PIX, TV), by Maria Tsvetkova and Nvard Hovhannisyan, 435 phrases)
Cabbies and workplace staff: Meet Singapore’s extraordinary royals
SINGAPORE, Oct 26 – Within the trendy republic of Singapore, a number of seemingly extraordinary folks working in workplaces or driving taxis can declare to be of royal blood, descendants of a nineteenth century monarch who ceded management of the Southeast Asian island to the British. (SINGAPORE-ROYALS/ (moved), by Chen Lin, Edgar Su and John Geddie, 748 phrases)
Bitter rivals, acquainted faces and fears as Ivory Coast votes for president
ABIDJAN, Oct 28 – Residents of Ivory Coast’s greatest metropolis Abidjan are stocking up on provisions and sending family members to rural villages forward of a contentious presidential election on Saturday many worry may flip violent. (IVORYCOAST-ELECTION/ (TV, PIX), by Loucoumane Coulibaly and Aaron Ross, 641 phrases)
Pandemic transforms some People into voting rights activists in raft of lawsuits
Oct 27 – Worry of the novel coronavirus has forged some People into an unfamiliar function: litigants in an unprecedented wave of court docket battles over voting procedures. (USA-ELECTION/VOTER-LAWSUITS (PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), by Tom Hals, 678 phrases)
Meals staff, rural People go hungry regardless of U.S. authorities farm help
GREEN BAY, Oct 27 – Yessenia Cendejas pulled as much as a shifting truck crammed with donated meals in northeastern Wisconsin, arriving on the cell meals financial institution straight from her job at a pizza-crust manufacturing unit, to get sustenance for herself and 5 youngsters. (USA-ELECTION/RURAL-HUNGER (PIX, TV), by Christopher Walljasper and Gabriela Bhaskar, 1018 phrases)
Couple divided over Trump united in saving unlawful immigrants in desert
Oct 28 – A die-hard Trump supporter and his spouse, who despises the U.S. president, are united in a uncommon mission. (USA-ELECTION/BORDER-COUPLE (PIX, TV), by Norma Galeana, 334 phrases)
Too laborious to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway
Oct 28 – Within the traditionally black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the same old get-out-the-vote actions on this presidential election 12 months had been upended by the pandemic. (USA-ELECTION/BLACK VOTERS (INSIGHT, PIX), by Joseph Tanfani and Michael Martina, 1615 phrases)
Why the Pennsylvania vote rely may throw U.S. into political disaster
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 23 – Right here within the birthplace of American democracy, election officers are scrambling to arrange for a presidential vote they worry may plunge the nation right into a historic political disaster. (USA-ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA (SPECIAL REPORT, GRAPHICS, PIX), by Jarrett Renshaw, Simon Lewis and Brad Heath, 2596 phrases)
UNDERSTANDING THE U.S. ELECTION
GRAPHIC-State of the battlegrounds (tmsnrt.rs/34wmzDT)
GRAPHIC-Better of occasions, or the worst? A voter’s information to U.S. GDP
EXPLAINER-Can Trump name in troops to quell Election Day unrest?
FACTBOX-From abortion rights to “magic mushrooms,” U.S. voters will determine
FACTBOX-These states may determine the U.S. presidential election
FACTBOX-A have a look at the 44 aggressive races within the U.S. Home of Representatives
FACTBOX-Wall Avenue banks and their employees are leaning left
FACTBOX-The place do Trump and Biden stand on tech coverage points?
FACTBOX-How a Biden presidency would rework the U.S. vitality panorama
EXPLAINER-What are the possible implications of a Biden presidency for Canada?
FACTBOX-Court docket battles form the presidential election
FACTBOX-The 2020 U.S. presidential election calendar: Day-to-day
GRAPHIC-What’s voting by mail (tmsnrt.rs/3iE94H6)
GRAPHIC-How the Electoral Faculty works (tmsnrt.rs/2TfSBik)
GRAPHIC-How vote counting works (tmsnrt.rs/3dS4AvK)
GRAPHIC-Ballot closing occasions throughout the U.S. (tmsnrt.rs/3dyzbOE)
GRAPHIC-Polling Explorer (polling.reuters.com/)
GRAPHIC-Biden and Trump on key points (tmsnrt.rs/3kjFOqT)
TRACKING COVID-19
FACTBOX-Again to lockdown: the brand new French measures to comprise COVID-19 unfold
GRAPHIC-Weekly U.S. COVID-19 deaths up 15%, new instances rise 24% (tmsnrt.rs/2WTOZDR)
GRAPHIC-Spared early on, ‘Trump nation’ now leads in coronavirus instances, deaths
FACTBOX-COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners
World tracker (tmsnrt.rs/32CyMHu)
U.S. tracker (tmsnrt.rs/2ySIhG0)
The Lifeline Pipeline: the medicine, exams and techniques that will conquer coronavirus (reut.rs/3bhMUaE)
Outstanding folks identified with COVID-19 (reut.rs/38zyAtI)
OTHER EXPLANATORY CONTENT
EXPLAINER-What’s within the U.S. legislation defending web firms – and might it’s modified?
FACTBOX-Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot merger: how it might work
FACTBOX-How Samsung’s possession might change as heirs take over from late Chairman Lee
EXPLAINER-What to observe on the fifth plenum of China’s Communist Occasion
EXPLAINER-Why South Africa’s public wage invoice is an issue
FACTBOX- Who’re the candidates vying for Ivory Coast’s presidency
FACTBOX-Authorized hurdles confronted by LGBT+ folks in Africa
EXPLAINER-Malaysia’s political disaster leaves Muhyiddin with make-or-break funds problem (Compiled by Leela de Kretser, Patrick Enright, Janet Lawrence and Tiffany Wu)
