Lima (AFP) – Workers of the Peruvian National Agricultural Health Service pick up dead birds on a beach in Lima, as the highly contagious H5N1 avian flu virus kills thousands of pelicans, blue-footed boobies and other seabirds in Peru. The current bird flu outbreak began in Canada and spread to the United States, which has seen a record 50 million avian deaths, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden welcome French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron to the White House. The two leaders are set to later meet in the Oval office before hosting a joint presser. [COMPLETES VIDI32X22DK_EN] [COMPLETES VIDI32X22DK_EN]
Geneva (AFP) – “What we’re planning to spend, hoping to spend, which for 2023, is 51.5 billion dollars,” says UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, at a UN press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The United Nations’ annual Global Humanitarian Overview estimates that 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year.
Dovgenke (Ukraine) (AFP) – “You can see yourself that the village is gone. Everything is destroyed” says Alina, a resident of the small village of Dovgenke, in eastern Ukraine. Months of fierce fighting between the invading Russian troops and the Ukrainian army destroyed every single house in the village, as well as all its critical infrastructure – leaving residents with little left to salvage.
Doha (AFP) – An Argentinian fan proposes to his Polish girlfriend during a televised interview at Stadium 974 in Doha, minutes before the World Cup match between Poland and Argentina.
Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden says during a joint press conference at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron, that the US and France would not let up on support for Ukraine’s war against Russia and pledges to “stand togther against this brutality”.
Khartoum (AFP) – Abdallah Ahmed and Saleh Abdalla have for years been enamoured with the Rastafari tradition which emerged in Jamaica last century. In their home country of Sudan, the community has largely lived underground under the autocratic rule of Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 following mass protests against his regime. Sudanese Rastafarians now say they are being targeted anew.
Washington (AFP) – Netflix unveils a long-awaited trailer for a six-part docuseries in which Prince Harry and his wife Meghan lift the lid on their lives in the royal family. The release of the trailer coincides with Harry’s elder brother William’s first trip to the United States as Prince of Wales and another race row within the family back home.
Washington (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron hails the decision by UNESCO to give heritage status to the French baguette. “In these few centimeters of craftsmanship passed from hand to hand lies the spirit of French know-how,” the French president says in a speech to the French community at the French Embassy in Washington, DC.
Madrid (AFP) – The United State’s Embassy in Madrid, Spain, was sent a booby-trapped letter bomb – a day after a similar one went off in the Ukrainian Embassy and a week after another was sent to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. IMAGES
