Chipping Norton (Australia) (AFP) – Images of flooding at a street in Chipping Norton, a suburb in Australia’s Sydney on Monday. DURATION: 01:35 Australia’s emergency services ordered thousands of people in Sydney to evacuate Monday as overflowing rivers swamped swathes of land and the city’s largest dam spilled torrents of water. IMAGES
Chipping Norton (Australia) (AFP) – Images of flooding at a street in Chipping Norton, a suburb in Australia’s Sydney on Monday. Australia’s emergency services ordered thousands of people in Sydney to evacuate Monday as overflowing rivers swamped swathes of land and the city’s largest dam spilled torrents of water. DURATION: 01:35
Maputo (AFP) – A Mozambican park welcomes its first white rhinos in 40 years after 19 of the threatened animals completed a 1,600-kilometre (thousand-mile) truck ride from South Africa, conservationists said. The rhinos were reintroduced to Zinave National Park in southern Mozambique under an initiative to restore wildlife and boost the local economy.
London (AFP) – London celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first Pride parade, marking half a century of progress in the fight for equality and tolerance but with warnings that more still needs to be done.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – In his nightly address, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky looks ahead to a conference on Ukraine’s reconstruction set to start Monday in Switzerland. Leaders from dozens of countries and international organisations will gather in the city of Lugano with the aim of providing a roadmap for the war-ravaged country’s recovery. Zelensky says 10 regions of Ukraine have been affected in the war, with many towns and villages needing to be “rebuilt from scratch”.
Soka (Japan) (AFP) – A team of Ukrainian sumo wrestlers whose training was interrupted by Russia’s invasion are aiming for global glory after a month-long camp in the home of the ancient Japanese sport. The six-strong Ukrainian amateur sumo team will fly to the US state of Alabama on Tuesday to compete in the World Games, an Olympic-like event featuring sports that are not contested at the Summer Games.
Minsk (AFP) – Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko accuses Kyiv of “provoking” his country and says his army intercepted missiles fired at Belarus by Ukrainian forces “around three days ago”. The claim came one week after Ukraine said missiles struck a border region from Belarus, a long-term Russian ally that supported the February 24 invasion. But Lukashenko denied any involvement, which would represent an escalation of the conflict.
Madrid (AFP) – Demonstrators hold rallies in several Spanish cities to protest over the deaths of 23 African migrants who died trying to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco.
Manaus (Brazil) (AFP) – In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they’re visiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Tropical storm Bonnie has made landfall in Nicaragua, near the border with Costa Rica, where populations along its Caribbean coast are taking shelter from the possible havoc that the storm could cause.
