Wipeout A godfather of modern Japanese surf culture had high hopes for the Games, but the pandemic had other ideas. Even his torch relay was canceled. Full Story
Baby Biocode A prenatal test used worldwide sends gene data of pregnant women to the company that developed it with China's military. The U.S. sees a security risk. Full Story July 07, 2021
The Muqtada Moment The political movement of nationalist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state. This growing influence could pose problems for the U.S. and Iran. Full Story June 29, 2021
Politically Incorrect The bank got in trouble over a high-stakes U.S.-China legal clash. In the past two years, Chinese state-owned firms have ended or cut back business with HSBC. Full Story June 28, 2021
Loss Upon Loss With vaccinations lagging, a vicious COVID-19 variant cut through three generations of the Cunha family. Within the space of six weeks, four would die. Full Story June 25, 2021
Power Play A young Venezuelan grew wealthy with power plant projects. Despite blackouts that followed, and international criminal probes, he remade himself abroad. Full Story June 23, 2021
Campaign of Fear ‘You and your family will be killed very slowly’: Trump's false voter-fraud claims sparked a campaign to terrorize election officials and workers nationwide. Full Story June 11, 2021
River of Blood Accounts surfaced last year of ethnic killings in an Ethiopian town called Mai Kadra. Now Reuters has pieced together accounts of those atrocities and the chain of events they unleashed. Full Story June 07, 2021
Russia’s New Gulag Former inmates of Alexei Navalny's jail have told Reuters they were subjected to beatings and severe psychological pressure. Medical neglect is common, they say. Full Story May 20, 2021
Ethiopia at War Across Ethiopia, Tigrayans are being fired and jailed since fighting erupted in their home region. The tensions are complicating efforts to end one of the world’s bitterest civil conflicts and threatening the unity of the country. Full Story May 07, 2021
Coal and Ice As many Western countries move away from coal, Moscow doubles down on production and turns east, to Asia. Full Story April 29, 2021
The Target The Hot List | Part 6: The Iranian-born, Western-educated scientist returned to his homeland to work in the government. But he fell afoul of hard-liners and went into hiding. Full Story April 27, 2021
The Cassandra The Hot List | Part 5: This scientist's prophecy of an Australian inferno was correct. In a country whose government has downplayed human-caused climate change, the message was unwelcome. Full Story April 26, 2021
The Paradox The Hot List | Part 4: It might seem improbable advising leaders of a nation famous for producing oil. But Duarte says the Saudi government has embraced many of his climate solutions. Full Story April 23, 2021
Editor's pick The Hot List Reuters ranks the world’s most influential climate scientists – and takes you inside the lives of six remarkable researchers. Full Story
Editor's pick Myanmar Burning Read our award-winning coverage of the expulsion of the Rohingya from Myanmar, including the investigation that landed reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in prison. Full Story
Editor's pick Duterte’s War Read the Reuters series that has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting: Inside the bloody drug crackdown in the Philippines. Full Story
