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Tenerife (Spain) (AFP) – People in Tenerife celebrate carnival after it was postponed in February due to Covid-19.

Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – World leaders mock Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tough-man image at a G7 lunch in Germany, joking about whether they should strip down to shirtsleeves — or even less. “We’re going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display,” says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, referring to Putin’s infamous 2009 photo-op of himself riding shirtless on a horse.

Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – G7 and EU leaders and their partners are welcomed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his wife Britta Ernst before the start of the G7 summit. During his photo op with Olaf Scholz, Joe Biden says that the bombing of Kyiv in the morning was “barbarism”.

Elmau (Germany) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden tells German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that the West must stay united against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin had been hoping “that somehow NATO and the G7 would splinter,” Biden said. “But we haven’t and we’re not going to.”

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – A Russian missile strike that hit Kyiv early on 26 June is an act of “symbolic aggression” in the days leading up to a NATO summit, says the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – Images from the start of the first working session of G7 leaders in Elmau Castle in Bavaria. The G7 major powers are meeting for a summit where one of the key issues is to reaffirm Western unity as the war in Ukraine takes hold and drives up energy and food prices around the world.

Quito (AFP) – Protesters clash with security forces near congress in Quito on another day of violent demonstrations against the rise in fuel prices as Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso accused demonstrators of attempting a coup.

Madrid (AFP) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez describes a deadly migrant rush in the enclave of Melilla on the border with Morocco as “an attack on the territorial integrity” of Spain which he blames on “human trafficking mafia”.

samar island (Philippines) (AFP) – A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world’s deepest shipwreck ever located.

St. Louis (AFP) – Protesters gather in front of the last clinic that was performing abortions in the state of Missouri, United States after it had to shut down its activities. “For me, it’s tragic… Women died getting abortions back then,” says 68 Pamela Lukehart, with tears in her eyes remembering when they were not legal in all of the United States. She joins the protest with her granddaughter, 23 years old Audrey. A few hundred protesters took to the streets of St. Louis, chanting “My body, my choice”. Missouri became the first state to ban abortions after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50 years old decision that was guarantying women the right to an abortion in the country.