Dhaka (AFP) – Workers and labour activists in Bangladesh march in Dhaka to mark Labour Day, also called International Workers’ Day. “We want the workers to work in a safe workplace and in a respectful way,” says Mosammat Shilpi, a factory worker taking part in the march.
New York (AFP) – Fashion’s party of the year celebrated the late king of couture, Karl Lagerfeld. Stars including Doja Cat and Jessica Chastain glammed up in honor of Lagerfeld, dressing up as his iconic cat Choupette and the designer himself, respectively.
New York (AFP) – Actress Penelope Cruz, singer Dua Lipa and tennis champ Roger Federer arrive for fashion’s party of the year — the Met Gala. All three are among the event’s co-chairs.
Marseille (AFP) – Several hundred thousand people marched Monday morning throughout France for a May 1st Day that was both “festive” and “combative”, the inter-union intending to show that it is not giving up its fight against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
Cahuita (Costa Rica) (AFP) – Costa Rican sloths have been shown to have antibiotic-producing bacteria in their fur that keep pathogens that can make the animal sick at bay. Scientist Max Chavarria of the University of Costa Rica is researching whether this finding could have an application for humans.
Paris (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people mass in France on labour day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, with unions vowing not to stop fighting even after the changes were signed into law.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Arseniy Gerasymenko never imagined he was destined to cover conflicts. A fan of landscape and fashion photography, he was faced with a fait accompli when Russia invaded his country on 24 February 2022. Now, using a retro camera that he says once captured the Korean War in the 1950s, he documents his country’s servicemen at the front.
Near Bakhmut (Ukraine) (AFP) – Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jump out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, in the conflict-hit east of the country. The soldiers on the first digging duty put their rifles in the grass and line up along the designated stretch of ground. The others stand slightly back. But the trench-diggers don’t even have time to start before the shrill sound of a rocket ripped through the air before falling and exploding less than 50 metres away.
Prespes Lake (Macedonia) (AFP) – Climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution are putting the once pristine Lake Prespa at risk, experts say. The lake – which straddles the borders of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia – is shrinking rapidly, which is putting the animals and nearby environment that depend on it increasingly at risk.
Asuncion (AFP) – Economist and former finance minister Santiago Pena celebrates the general election victory at the rightwing Colorado party’s headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay. Sixty-year-old challenger Efrain Alegre of the Concertacion center-left coalition garnered nearly 27.5 percent despite having gone into the vote with a narrow lead in opinion polls. The outcome bucked a recent anti-incumbency trend in Latin American elections with voters repeatedly punishing establishment parties, often in favor of leftist rivals.
