Exmouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – In the southern British town of Exmouth, a leisure centre has been using the heat generated by computers to maintain its swimming pool water at the right temperature. Under this system, the swimming pool is heated at a considerably lower cost, while the data centre uses the pool to cool its computers, immersed in an inert oil, for free.
Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani says that his country hopes that indirect talks with the United States will soon lead to an exchange of prisoners, months after a circulating rumour on a clandestine deal between the two foes.
Da Nang (Vietnam) (AFP) – The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier makes a port call in Vietnam. It comes as the United States and Vietnam celebrate the 10th anniversary of their “comprehensive partnership. This is the third visit by a US aircraft carrier to Vietnam after a historic port call by the USS Carl Vinson in 2018, the first time such a ship had arrived in the country since the end of the war.
Vilnius (AFP) – German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says Germany is prepared to station 4,000 troops in Lithuania after the Baltic nation called on NATO to strengthen its eastern flank.
Beijing (AFP) – Beijing pledges its support for Russia’s efforts in maintaining “national stability” following a short-lived armed uprising led by the head of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin. “China and Russia maintain close, good communication at all levels,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning tells a regular press briefing, without giving information on whether a talk occurred between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Unknown (AFP) – Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly signs with Al-Hilal for an undisclosed fee, becoming the latest player to move to Saudi Arabia.
Vilnius (AFP) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says the mutiny by the mercenary Wagner Group in Russia shows that President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a “mistake”. Speaking to reporters in Vilnius, Lithuania, Stoltenberg calls the now halted revolt “yet another demonstration of the big strategic mistake that President Putin made.”
Wad Ḩāmid (Sudan) (AFP) – With just a few days to go before Eid al-Adha, many Sudanese lament that they will not be able to celebrate the holy Muslim holiday properly as the ongoing fighting between rival generals in the country has eroded their purchasing power. At the “Wed Hamed” livestock market some 152 kilometres north of Khartoum, vendors tell AFP that people have no money for the traditional sacrificial animal served at the Eid al-Adha feast.
Luxembourg (AFP) – EU foreign ministers meet to discuss the war in Ukraine and the latest developments in Russia. IMAGES
Guatemala City (AFP) – Guatemala’s center-left presidential candidate for the Movimiento Semilla party, Bernardo Arevalo, casts his vote in the country’s presidential elections. IMAGES
