Kherson (Ukraine) (AFP) – Since Moscow captured Kherson in early March, information on what is happening there has been hard to come by. AFP journalists joined a press trip organised by the Russian Defence Ministry to find a region relatively untouched by the fighting – yet ‘apprehensive’ about the future.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the West remains divided over the extent of its support for Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s invasion. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, he singles out the European Union for its lack of unity.
London (AFP) – Harry and Meghan’s figures have re-joined the royal family and the waxworks have been given a black tie makeover at Madame Tussauds in London, as the UK prepares to celebrate the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
Mardan (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan greets supporters after landing his helicopter in the middle of a highway leading to Islamabad. He earlier called for a major rally in the country’s capital.
Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) – Imran Khan supporters gather in the ousted prime minister’s power base in the northwestern city of Peshawar planning to depart for a centre-piece showdown protest in Islamabad, as police block all roads leading to the capital city. IMAGES
Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France) (AFP) – French daredevil tightrope walker Nathan Paulin claim a new world record after completing a 2,200-metre-long (nearly 1.4-mile) trip to Mont Saint-Michel on a wire suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island. It took him two hours to inch his way, barefoot, along the two-centimetre-wide slackline. +COMPLETES 32AZ9Z2_EN+ AND SOUNDBITES
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – In his nightly address, Zelensky says that three months of war in Ukraine are “three months of war crimes by the Russian occupiers — three months of their blows, destruction, blockade.” He adds that “the occupiers want to destroy everything” in Donbas.
Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden vows to find a way to tighten gun ownership laws after a mass shooting at an elementary school left at least 19 schoolchildren dead in Texas on Tuesday.
Washington (AFP) – The United States voices horror at new files on incarceration of China’s Uyghur minority. “We are appalled by the reports and the jarring images,” State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters.
Moscow (AFP) – The Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu suggests that Moscow will have to fight for a long time in Ukraine to achieve the objectives of its intervention, which has entered its fourth month.
