Vienna (AFP) – At the Austrian World Summit climate conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger denounces Europe for “financing the war” in Ukraine by paying Russia for fuel, saying “we have blood on our hands”. The actor also references 9 year-old Ella who died of asthma after being exposed to high levels of pollution, saying we need to get rid of fossil fuels as “we owe it to our Ellas”.
New York (AFP) – New York’s Rikers Island prison is facing its most intense scrutiny ever following at least 20 deaths in the last 18 months. For some protesting in the city, any reforms come too late.
Janjgiri (India) (AFP) – Indian emergency workers carry out a rescue operation to save a 10-year-old boy, who has been trapped down a narrow well for four days in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Rescuers have managed to insert an oxygen pipe into the well where the boy is trapped, as well as a camera.
Washington (AFP) – “Does this framework has everything that the president wants? It does not,” says White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, after a bipartisan group of US senators proposed steps to curb gun violence following devastating mass shootings in Texas and New York.
Hong Kong (AFP) – Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere. IMAGES
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the battle for Donbas “will surely go down in military history as one of the most brutal battles in Europe and for Europe”. He adds that Ukraine has “no other choice but to move forward”.
London (AFP) – Images of Grenfell Tower in London as the city marks five years since Britain’s worse residential fire since World War II. A total of 72 people were killed when a fire that started in a faulty freezer ripped through the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in west London on June 14, 2017. IMAGES
Melbourne (AFP) – Australian journalist Tony Armstrong celebrates alongside enthusiastic Socceroos fans in Melbourne after watching Australia beat Peru to secure a spot in the World Cup. Graham Arnold’s men stunned Peru in a penalty shootout in Doha to clinch the penultimate spot at the global showpiece this year.
Mariupol (Ukraine) (AFP) – Aerial images show widespread devastation at the Azovstal iron and steel works in Mariupol – the site of a last stand by Ukrainian soldiers against Russian forces in the city. Ukrainian fighters only surrendered at the end of May, after three months of fierce fighting.
Brasília (AFP) – “The evidence leads us to believe that they did something bad to them, because human viscera were found floating in the river,” says Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, referring to the case of British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the remote Amazon.
