Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistani police officers in Lahore are awaiting a court order to once again try to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is still holed up in his residence, denouncing “the law of the jungle”. IMAGES
Taipei (AFP) – Taiwan’s foreign ministry says they will never compete with China for “cash diplomacy” and reminds Honduras not to “drink poison to quench your thirst and fall into China’s debt trap”. Honduras on Tuesday instructed its foreign minister to establish diplomatic ties with China, a move that would sever the Central American country’s long-standing diplomatic relationship with Taiwan.
Paju (South Korea) (AFP) – The South Korea-US combined forces hold joint military drills as part of the ongoing Freedom Shield exercise, which started on Monday and are set to run for 10 days.On Tuesday, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles, having launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine Sunday, just hours before the US-South Korea exercises kicked off. North Korea views all such drills as rehearsals for invasion and has repeatedly warned it would take “overwhelming” action in response.
Blantyre (Malawi) (AFP) – A mass funeral is held in Blantyre, southern Malawi, where more than 200 people died in floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Freddy.
Blantyre (Malawi) (AFP) – A mass funeral is held in Blantyre, southern Malawi, where more than 200 people died in floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Freddy.
Hollywood (United States) (AFP) – Kobe Bryant’s widow and daughters unveil late basketball star’s handprints and footprints that will now be on permanent display outside the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Walk of Fame. The five-time NBA champion became the first athlete to have them imprinted on cement in 2011.
Corrientes Province (Argentina) (AFP) – Firefighters battle a large fire in Argentina’s nothern Corrientes province where blazes have devoured some 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of forests in just days. Since the start of the year, with the South American country facing heat wave after heat wave, fires have destroyed more than 100,000 hectares in Corrientes, according to the INTA agricultural technology institute.
Vatican City (AFP) – At his weekly audience Pope Francis offers a prayer for the people of Malawi after Cyclone Freddy struck southern Africa for a second time, triggering floods and landslides that have killed more than 200 people.
Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Imran Khan accuses the police of attempting to kill him as clashes broke out outside the former Pakistani Prime Minister’s Lahore residence. Police and paramilitary rangers attempting to arrest the country’s onetime cricket captain fought pitched battles with supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party throughout the night.
Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan tells AFP the government wants him behind bars in order to stop him taking part in elections due later this year. Riot police halted an attempt to arrest the 70-year-old former leader and onetime star cricketer, ending a siege of his residence after violent clashes with hundreds of his supporters.
