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.
Sylhet (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Northeast Bangladesh’s worst floods in nearly 20 years have begun to recede, but many are still marooned. The extreme weather across the region has killed around 60 people and affected at least four million. Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring northeast India, but many experts say that climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.
Barcelona (AFP) – Since April, Barcelona city hall has employed 290 sheep and goats to munch undergrowth at the Collserola National Park on the outskirts of Spain’s second-largest city. The aim of the pilot scheme is to reduce the risk of wildfires by clearing vegetation in an environmentally friendly way. It also helps educate the Mediterranean port city’s 1.6 million residents about the countryside.
