Belgrade (AFP) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says Australian authorities have ‘no principles’ in its deportation of world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic over his Covid-19 vaccination status.
Auckland (AFP) – “Boats and large boulders washed ashore,” in Tonga, says New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, after a huge volcano eruption at the islands. The Tongan capital Nuku’alofa “is covered in a thick film of volcanic dust,” Ardern adds.
Jabalia (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Members of the Palestinian civil defence evacuate residents from inundated houses after torrential rains hit the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip.
Doel (Belgium) (AFP) – Doel has a reputation as Belgium’s best-known ‘ghost town’. But its few inhabitants — today numbering just 21 — now see a glimmer of hope of their village bouncing back to life.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Dozens of freight cars are broken into every day on Los Angeles’s railways by thieves who take advantage of the trains’ stops to loot packages bought online, leaving thousands of gutted boxes and products that will never reach their destinations.
Lyon (AFP) – France’s well-liked former justice minister Christiane Taubira officially launches her campaign for the presidential election, joining other leftist candidates.
Stockholm (AFP) – Scientists based in Stockholm say they have developed a new tool to target and kill mosquitoes. By isolating a molecule in the malaria parasite that only attracts mosquitoes, and mixing it in beetroot juice alongside toxins that kill the insects, the resulting mixture attracts the mosquitoes to feed and then kills them.
Mondovì (Italy) (AFP) – Deprived of a festival due to the pandemic, balloon enthusiasts are gathering in Mondovi, the ballooning capital of northern Italy, to get their balloons off the ground in the Piedmont town.
Khartoum (AFP) – TO COMPLETE VDI9VU74U_EN Sudanese rally in Sudan’s capital Khartoum as they keep up pressure on the military following a coup 11 weeks ago. The coup, led by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on October 25, derailed a power-sharing transition between the military and civilians that had been painstakingly established in the wake of longtime autocrat Omar-al-Bashir’s ouster in 2019.
Cambridge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds.
