A woman carries on her head a basin containing sugarcane she bought at the market in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo,October 5,, 2019. Picture taken October 5, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Damage is seen inside a building that was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza at the Israeli border town of Sderot, Israeli police said June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

A bathroom covered with ash is seen inside a house affected by the eruption of the Fuego volcano at San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso SEARCH "VOLCANO DETAILS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

An internally displaced Congolese woman carries a basin containing lemons as she walks in Kaniki-Kapangu near Mwene Ditu in Kasai Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

An internally displaced Congolese woman carries a basin containing bananas as she walks in Kaniki-Kapangu near Mwene Ditu in Kasai Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

A solitary cell is seen at the newly-built extension building of the Justizvollzugsanstalt Lenzburg central prison of the Canton of Aargau in Lenzburg, Switzerland May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Deep beneath the waters of the Atlantic off Brazil's most northern coast, French major Total SA is hunting for what it hopes will be Latin America's next big oil discovery. Metal drill bits, pipes and containers filled with equipment sit in the sweltering tropical port of Belem, near the mouth of the vast Amazon River, ready to sink the first exploratory wells 120 km (75 miles) offshore. Some geologists say the area, known as the Foz do Amazonas Basin, may contain as many as 14 billion barrels of petroleum, more than the entire proven reserves of Mexico. But another underwater discovery threatens to derail Total's plans: a massive system of coral reefs just 28 kilometres from where the French firm and its partners, Britain's BP PLC and Brazilian state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, plan to drill.ÊEnvironmentalists are now pressuring regulators to block oil exploration in the area. They believe the thriving reef, which is more 1,000 kilometres long and teaming with brightly coloured coral and giant sponges, may be home to new marine species.ÊREUTERS/Ricardo Moraes SEARCH "OIL AMAZON" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Matching text: BRAZIL-OIL/AMAZON

Deep beneath the waters of the Atlantic off Brazil's most northern coast, French major Total SA is hunting for what it hopes will be Latin America's next big oil discovery. Metal drill bits, pipes and containers filled with equipment sit in the sweltering tropical port of Belem, near the mouth of the vast Amazon River, ready to sink the first exploratory wells 120 km (75 miles) offshore. Some geologists say the area, known as the Foz do Amazonas Basin, may contain as many as 14 billion barrels of petroleum, more than the entire proven reserves of Mexico. But another underwater discovery threatens to derail Total's plans: a massive system of coral reefs just 28 kilometres from where the French firm and its partners, Britain's BP PLC and Brazilian state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, plan to drill.ÊEnvironmentalists are now pressuring regulators to block oil exploration in the area. They believe the thriving reef, which is more 1,000 kilometres long and teaming with brightly coloured coral and giant sponges, may be home to new marine species.ÊREUTERS/Ricardo Moraes SEARCH "OIL AMAZON" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Matching text: BRAZIL-OIL/AMAZON

A sink is seen in an abandoned house in western Mosul, Iraq, April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares SEARCH "EMPTY CASARES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Liu Zhanyu, a client manager at DouMiYouPin, washes his feet at the office's bathroom before going to sleep after finishing work at midnight, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2016. Office workers sleeping on the job is a common sight in China, where a surplus of cheap labour can lead to downtime at work. But in China's technology sector, where business is growing faster than many start-up firms can hire new staff, workers burn the midnight oil to meet deadlines and compete with their rivals. Some companies provide sleeping areas and beds for workers to rest during late nights. REUTERS/Jason Lee SEARCH "JASON SLEEP" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

Christians carry a basin containing water during a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the banks of the Jordan River near the West Bank city of Jericho, January 10, 2016. It is believed that John the Baptist baptised Jesus in this site. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

A pig's head is seen in a basin after it was slaughtered it in the village of Azerany, Belarus, December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

People taste recycled wastewater at the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility during the West Basin Municipal Water District's tour of a water recycling facility in El Segundo, California July 11, 2015. REUTERS/David McNew TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A boy tugs on a water basin with his friend wearing a mask as he wades through deep flooding caused by typhoon Linfa, locally named Egay, at Longos town in Malabon City, north of Manila July 6, 2015. All shipping was ordered to remain in harbor and some flights were canceled in the northern Philippines, while schools were closed in the capital, Manila, on Monday due to flooding and landslides from a tropical storm, disaster officials said. Storm warnings were issued in at least 14 areas of the main Philippine island of Luzon as tropical storm Linfa moved slowly across the north of the Southeast Asian archipelago. It was carrying maximum wind gusts of 100 km per hour (60 mph). REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Women wash usable bricks which they found from collapsed houses after the earthquake, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, May 19, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

A plantation worker scrapes rubber latex at Ham Nghi rubber forest in Huong Tra village, south of Hanoi, April 14, 2015. Picture taken on April 14, 2015. REUTERS/Kham

An illegal migrant bathes her son in an immigration holding centre located on the outskirts of Misrata March 11, 2015. Italy wants Egypt and Tunisia to play a role in rescuing stricken migrant vessels in the Mediterranean, a government planning paper showed, so that survivors could be taken back to African instead of European ports. Last April Italy rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in only 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis that is being made worse by the turmoil in Libya, which has grappled with chaos and rampant militias since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Picture taken March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A girl watches her mother washing her hair at a refugee camp at Myanmar's border town with China, in Kokang March 24, 2015. Picture taken March 24, 2015.REUTERS/Wong Campion

A girl washes her hair at her makeshift shelter at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad March 10, 2015. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY)

Labourers work at the installation site of a new railway track on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura February 25, 2015. India's decrepit state-run train services stand to receive at least a 25 percent boost in investment to over $9 billion, funded solely by falling fuel costs, according to officials familiar with a railway budget set to be unveiled on Thursday. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Berber women wash a child in Ait Sghir village in the High Atlas region of Morocco February 14, 2015. The snowy foothills of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco are home to several Berber villages where the inhabitants make their living by farming, baking bread in traditional ovens, herding cattle, and the making and selling of honey, olive oil and pottery. Extreme weather fluctuations and erosion that causes flooding and landslides have led to a drop in agricultural productivity, the United Nations said. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (MOROCCO - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Manuel Luis, 35, takes off his t-shirt as he poses in a lavatory during a tattoo convention in the Andalusian capital of Seville February 14, 2015. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY)

A Palestinian cave dweller shapes handmade yoghurt before drying it, during the yearly yoghurt-making season, near the West Bank city of Hebron February 9, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD)

Children throw water at a man on a street during Carnival celebrations in summer at downtown Lima February 8, 2015. Peruvians celebrate Carnival on all Sundays of February by throwing water and paint on each other. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: SOCIETY)

A street vendor wears a surgical face mask to protect herself from volcanic ash while sitting on a sidewalk in Antigua, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, February 7, 2015. Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched black ash into the sky on Saturday, causing the government to evacuate 100 nearby residents and forcing the closure of the capital's international airport, President Otto Perez told reporters. The volcano, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of the capital, forced the cancellation of several flights as Guatemala's main airport shut down and workers sought to clear the runways of ash. Picture taken Feburary 7, 2015. REUTERS/Josue Decavele (GUATEMALA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)

A woman walks past men riding a motorbike in a village in the southern Egyptian governorate of Minya, south of Cairo January 21, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: SOCIETY)

Jeff Roderick is reflected in the mirror of an outdoor sink at Tent City 3, a homeless encampment in Seattle, Washington January 15, 2015. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will submit legislation to the City Council this week seeking approval of three new homeless encampments, saying the tent cities are needed to deal with rising homelessness, his office said on Thursday. REUTERS/David Ryder (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY POLITICS)

Workers collect fish inside an abandoned department store in Bangkok January 13, 2015. Staff from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) office were catching fish on Tuesday at the ground floor of the roofless New World department store that was closed down in 1997. Thousands of fish such as catfishes, fancy carps as well as black and red tilapias were released into the ground floor of the building, flooded with rainwater, as local vendors tried to control mosquitoes in the area, local media reported. BMA recently decided to remove the fish and release the water. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)

A Palestinian woman, whose house was destroyed by what she said was Israeli shelling during a 50- day-war last summer, washes clothes inside a classroom at a UN-run school where she takes refuge, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 8, 2015. Heavy rains and near-freezing temperatures in the approaching storm threatened to deepen the misery in the Gaza Strip, where streets are still strewn with wreckage from a 50-day war with Israel last summer, thousands live in U.N. shelters and damaged homes and the power is on only six hours a day. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY POLITICS)

A woman carries laundry on her head, while heading home after washing in Charsadda, near Peshawar January 7, 2015. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY)

A man sprays water to clean his flooded house of mud at Kampung Melayu residential area in Jakarta, December 23, 2014. Torrential rains that have continued in Indonesia in recent days have widened the number of flooded areas that include Jakarta and Bandung, a local newspaper said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)

A Sierra Leonen woman carries a pot of peanuts on her head in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner(SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY)

A view of salt collected from a pond at the Maras mines in Cuzco December 3, 2014. Salt has been obtained in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local subterranean stream water. The water is intricately channelled through constructions, flowing gradually down onto several hundred ancient terraced ponds. From each pond, a local member of the mine cooperative can produce 150 to 200 kilos per month which can be sold in the markets at $0.34 per kilogram, according to miners.
Picture taken December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS)

A worker washes salt after collecting it from a pond at the Maras mines in Cuzco December 3, 2014. Salt has been obtained in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local subterranean stream water. The water is intricately channelled through constructions, flowing gradually down onto several hundred ancient terraced ponds. From each pond, a local member of the mine cooperative can produce 150 to 200 kilos per month which can be sold in the markets at $0.34 per kilogram, according to miners.
Picture taken December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

A woman playing the role of Bridget Fuller scrapes cinnamon into a bowl to make pancakes in a home at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts November 24, 2014. Plimouth Plantation is a living museum portraying the life of the Native Americans and the English colonists in 1627, seven years after the colonists' arrival. The three-day harvest festival and feast at the Plimoth Colony in 1621 is the model for the modern-day Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, according to the museum. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Mascho Piro indigenous man Manuel Trigoso sharpens his machete outside his home in Diamante, a town near the Alto Madre de Dios River, May 26, 2014. Isolated Peruvian tribes like Mashco Piro have clashed in the past with loggers, poachers and drug traffickers who invaded their jungle enclaves, but anthropologists say the lure of modern tools is now tempting them closer than ever to far-flung villages and tourist camps.
Their sorties are dangerous, exposing them to the threat of violent encounters with terrified locals and modern-day diseases against which the hunter-gatherers have little immunity. Picture taken May 26, 2014. To match Feature PERU-TRIBE/ REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

A villager offers oranges to children of a Jewish community on a street in the village of San Juan La Laguna August 24, 2014. A few months after moving from Canada to a remote part of Guatemala to find religious freedom, the group of ultra orthodox Jews have been forced out of their homes in a bitter conflict with hostile villagers. The Lev Tahor community packed its bags on Friday in San Juan la Laguna, west of Guatemala City, to board buses bound for the capital after weeks of friction with sections of the local population. Picture taken August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)

A woman selling toilet products poses for a photo at the Oriental Market in Managua August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY)

Masha, a female raccoon, holds a piece of cloth in a pan with water, placed by zoo employees, inside an enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk August 8, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY)

A girl washes dishes at a partially disassembled house at the "Buena Vista" slum during an eviction, in Guatemala City, July 30, 2014. The residents, who said that the area has been occupied by about 160 low-income families for two years, were evicted peacefully after a dialog with anti-riot police. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)

Hindu priests sit in cauldrons of water and make offerings to in front of a fire while performing the "Parjanya Varun Yagam", a special prayer for rain, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 1, 2014. India's monsoon rainfall was 43 percent below average in June, the weather office said on Monday, the weakest first month of the season in five years. REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A man sells fish at a wholesale fish market in Kolkata June 16, 2014. India's wholesale prices-based inflation in May accelerated to a five-month high of 6.01 percent, driven up by higher food and fuel costs, government data showed on Monday. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA - Tags: FOOD BUSINESS)

A woman carries a pan of mud in a local gold mine near the village of Game, about 230 kilometres north of the capital Bangui April 24, 2014. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES EMPLOYMENT)

A slum dweller's pets, including puppies and a cat, look on from a plastic container next to religious statues and other belongings, after a squatter colony was demolished in Tondo, Manila April 23, 2014. Police and local officials said that about 500 shanties and illegal structures are being demolished as the government started clearing the area to widen the road and make way for the construction of a modernized port. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Prospectors pan for gold at a new gold mine found in a cocoa farm near the town of Bouafle in western Ivory Coast March 18, 2014. With high prices for the precious metal fuelling a gold rush in Ivory Coast and Ghana, diggers are scurrying to cash in. But the drain on the labour market and the harm done to cocoa plantations could endanger cocoa production in the two nations, which account for 60 percent of global supply. Picture taken March 18, 2014. To match Insight COCOA-GOLD/WESTAFRICA REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Men sell food at a shop at the Rohingya refugee camp outside Sittwe March 29, 2014. Protesters in Myanmar's Rakhine State opposed to a census attacked offices and houses used by international aid groups after reports a European staff member from one group had removed a Buddhist flag used as a symbol to boycott the operation, witnesses said. According to residents, food prices increased after the violence in Sittwe. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY FOOD BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST)

A woman carries her belongings on a dirt road of the outskirts of the capital Bangui March 22, 2014. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: SOCIETY)

A woman roasts maize by the road side along Manchock road, in Kaura Local Government Kaduna State, March 21, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST POLITICS FOOD)

A labourer carries salt in a container on a salt pan in Little Rann of Kutch in the western Indian state of Gujarat March 2, 2014. Salt pans begin pumping out sub-soil brine water towards the end of the monsoon in October, and this lasts till end-March, after which it is dried till crystals are formed. The crystals are collected by mid-June and it takes another eight months to process them to make edible salt. India is the third largest producer of salt in the world after the U.S. and China. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

A labourer carries salt in a container on a salt pan in Little Rann of Kutch in the western Indian state of Gujarat March 2, 2014. Salt pans begin pumping out sub-soil brine water towards the end of the monsoon in October, and this lasts till end-March, after which it is dried till crystals are formed. The crystals are collected by mid-June and it takes another eight months to process them to make edible salt. India is the third largest producer of salt in the world after the U.S. and China. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Women wash clothes along a flooded street on the outskirts of Trinidad, some 400 km (249 miles) northeast of La Paz February 5, 2014. Bolivia's government has declared a national emergency as severe flooding caused by torrential rains has claimed dozens of lives and forced thousands to leave their homes, reported local media. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER SOCIETY)

An Afghan girl, whose family fled the soviet-led war in Afghanistan, carries a basin as she walks toward her makeshift shelter in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad February 3, 2014. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY)

Salvador Garci, a member of the Popular Solidarity Network (RSP), prepares to sow potatoes on a rented field in the Transits district in Valencia, February 1, 2014. The RSP is a nationwide volunteer network where, in order to receive donations, beneficiaries are also required to volunteer for the organisation. The Transits branch delivers a bag of food and clothes to some 150 persons from 50 families weekly. Picture taken February 1, 2014. REUTERS/Heino Kalis (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD)

A South Sudanese girl washes clothes in one of the two United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) compounds that are holding displaced persons, in Juba January 27, 2014. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST)

Stall vendor Ngosi Anyanwu displays snails for sale at Utako Market on Christmas Eve in Abuja December 24, 2013. Snails are a delicacy prepared along with other meals during the festive season. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY FOOD)

A boy washes stone dust in search of gold nuggets at an open-pit gold mine in Lukingi village in Mubende district, about 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Uganda's capital Kampala November 17, 2013. Picture taken November 17, 2013. REUTERS/James Akena (UGANDA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

A dog sits over a drinking water basin along a road in the old quarters of Delhi November 15, 2013. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A student washes a spoon as she holds her container of food for lunch at Pengying School on the outskirts of Beijing November 11, 2013. Among the issues China's top leaders tackled this week as they hammered out their policy roadmap, some may determine whether children attending the likes of the Pengying school in Beijing fulfil their dreams. Thanks to China's system of internal passports, or hukou, parents in search of better jobs in the capital, or other urban areas, leave behind the public services they were entitled to as residents of their home villages - their pension, healthcare insurance and free public schooling. That means that if they want to educate their children they have to find an unlicensed school, such as Pengying, which charges an annual fee of 1,400 yuan ($228), most of a month's earnings for some migrant families. Picture taken on November 11, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EDUCATION SOCIETY IMMIGRATION EMPLOYMENT)

A street vendor sells grains along a street in the city of Aleppo October 5, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE FOOD BUSINESS SOCIETY)

A free Syrian Army fighter washes weapons in Sheikh Maksoud area, Aleppo September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)