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Huelva (Spain) (AFP) – Spain’s Donana National Park, home to one of Europe’s largest wetlands, is threatened by intensive farming.

Suva (Fiji) (AFP) – Australian foreign minister Penny Wong speaks on Australia’s view of security in the Pacific following the signing of a controversial security pact with the Solomon Islands, which took Canberra by surprise last month.

Washington (AFP) – Gun control activists and lawmakers rally outside the US Capitol to call for action after a mass shooting left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead in Texas. “I’m here because I’m scared it’s going to be me next,” says a high school student who missed classes to attend the protest.

Uvalde (United States) (AFP) – The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers walked into Robb Elementary School “unobstructed,” police say, contradicting previous statements by officials on the chain of events in Uvalde, Texas. “He was not confronted by anybody” before he entered the school, says Victor Escalon, regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – In his daily evening address, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky says “the catastrophic course of events could have nonetheless been stopped, if the world powers did not flirt with Russia, but really pressed to end the war.”

Tivaouane (Senegal) (AFP) – The Public Prosecutor of Thies in Senegal, Abdoulaye Ba promises to be unrelenting with whomever is found responsible for a fire which caused the death of eleven newborn babies in a hospital in Senegal’s western city of Tivaouane.

Oxon Hill (United States) (AFP) – DC restaurateur Mark Bucher has acted fast to help those in need during a a shortage of baby formula, sourcing 100,000 bottles of ready-to-drink formula and placing them in community fridges in and around Washington, DC.

Minneapolis (AFP) – Hundreds of people gather to honor the memory of George Floyd at the site where he was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis two years ago, with an official street sign added to designate the intersection “George Perry Floyd Square.”

Uvalde (United States) (AFP) – Dora Mendoza, whose 10-year-old granddaughter Amerie Jo Garza was killed in the Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, pleads with authorities to address the country’s gun violence epidemic. “Do something about it, I beg you,” Mendoza says.

Islamabad (AFP) – Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan warns the government to stage fresh elections within 6 days or face more mass protests, after leading thousands of supporters to the capital Islamabad.