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Moscow (AFP) – Putin said that Russia will use all available means to protect its territory, accusing the West of seeking to “weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country”.

Pocheon (South Korea) (AFP) – South Korean military holds a live fire and manoeuvre demonstration as part of 2022 Defense Expo Korea (DX Korea). DX Korea is a platform for military land forces equipment to display and market defence products to various International buyers. K2 tanks, AH-1 Cobra helicopters, and rocket launchers fired at various targets at the training grounds in Pocheon, South Korea.

Añasco (Puerto Rico) (AFP) – Footage shared by Kabir Solares Garcia, the mayor of the Puerto Rican town of Anasco, shows the scale of devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona, which has left much of Puerto Rico submerged in water and knocked out most of the island’s power grid.

Colombo (AFP) – Buddhist monks and Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka take to the streets of Colombo to protest against rising electricity prices. Sri Lanka has suffered a severe economic crisis with extended blackouts, runaway inflation, and months of food, fuel and medicine shortages.

Itapecerica da Serra (Brazil) (AFP) – Firefighters work at the scene where at least nine people died after the collapse at a container company in Sao Paulo during an event with politicians amid Brazil’s presidential and legislative election campaign. In addition to the fatalities, at least 31 people were injured, including State deputy candidate Jones Dozinette and federal deputy candidate Ely Santos, who were visiting the company at the time of the collapse.

London (AFP) – Britain said farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday at a historic state funeral attended by world leaders, before a ceremonial journey past hundreds of thousands of mourners to her final place of rest.

The Moscow-installed head of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, announces that it will hold a “referendum on the incorporation of the Khersion region into the Russian Federation”. Saldo added he will “not turn away” from reunification with Russia.

The day after the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, newspapers dedicate their frontpages to the late monarch and, with the crowds gone, workers in London remove equipment and uninstall fixtures outside Buckingham Palace and in Hyde Park.

Jinja (Uganda) (AFP) – The four-day Ugandan music festival Nyege Nyege is taking place again after three years off due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 300 DJs from various African and European countries, as well as the US and Japan are playing across seven stages, entertaining 12,000 revelers on the banks of river Nile.

Kampala (AFP) – The Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed the first death from Ebola since 2019, an instance of the Sudan strain, in Mubende district, 150 kilometers west of the capital Kampala. A 24-year-old male “presented with EVD symptoms and later succumbed”, the ministry announced on Twitter on Tuesday.