Bogotá (AFP) – Images outside the Fundacion Santa Fe clinic where Colombian presidential contender Miguel Uribe was hospitalized after being shot while speaking to supporters during an event in Bogota on June 8. The right-wing senator has successfully undergone initial surgery, according to the city’s mayor, but the clinic described his condition as “maximum gravity.” IMAGES
Bogotá (AFP) – Police officers guard the entrance to the Fundacion Santa Fe clinic, in Bogota, where Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe is hospitalized after being shot. Thirty-nine-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe has successfully undergone initial surgery, according to authorities. He was speaking to supporters in the capital when a gunman shot him twice in the head and once in the knee before being detained. A security guard managed to detain the suspected attacker, a minor who is believed to be 15 years old. Uribe was airlifted to hospital in “critical condition” and underwent a “neurosurgical” and “peripheral vascular procedure,” the Santa Fe Clinic in Bogota confirmed. IMAGES
Bogotá (AFP) – Police at the scene where Colombian right-wing opposition senator and candidate for next year’s presidential election, Miguel Uribe, was shot and wounded during a campaign event in Bogota, according to the government. IMAGES
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – Workers remove a dead humpback whale from Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro. Although several had been sighted earlier, this is the first to strand and be found dead in the city this year, as the migration season begins. IMAGES
On her official visit to Brazil, Japan’s Princess Kako of Akishino visits Sao Paolo governor Tarcisio de Freitas at the Bandeirantes Palace and receives the Ordem do Ipiranga medal. IMAGES
El Hamma (Tunisia) (AFP) – Deep in Tunisia’s desert south, camels stride toward humming milking machines. Their milk is at the heart of a women-led project promising an economic lifeline for disadvantaged communities. Spearheading this effort is 32-year-old Latifa Frifita, who launched Tunisia’s first, and so far only, camel milk pasteurisation unit two years ago in Medenine. Containing up to five times more iron than cow’s milk, camel milk is non-alergenic and some studies have suggested that it has immune-boosting and anti-inflammatory properties.
Arequipa (Peru) (AFP) – Peruvian authorities seized 110 stuffed lizards that were to be used illegally for traditional medicine treatments in southern Peru, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (Serfor) says. The lizards were preserved in glass jars with alcohol and were being sold illegally as alternative treatments to herbal remedies.
New York (AFP) – Dozens of influencers have been setting up their live feeds alongside traditional media outlets at Sean “Diddy” Combs trial in Manhattan. Some say being present at the courthouse has boosted their popularity online and led to brand deals. “I gained like 10.5 thousand followers. It was like craziness […] It’s definitely changed my life,” says a creator who goes by the name of Kealohalika online.
Beijing (AFP) – Hopeful parents accompany their teenage children to the gates of a Beijing test centre, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly competitive university entrance exam. Nationwide, 13.35 million students have registered for the multi-subject “gaokao” series this year, according to the Ministry of Education.
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Firefighters are on the scene of a smouldering building after an early morning Russian strike destroyed apartment blocks and homes in Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv. Mayor Igor Terekhov calling the strike which killed at least 3 and injured at least 17, “the most powerful attack” since the war began.
Thousands gather in Nice for a drone show ahead of the UN Ocean Conference, where more than two thousand drones light up the sky with marine creatures. France will host world leaders this week to confront what the UN calls a “global emergency”. There is pressure on the conference starting Monday to show countries can unite and deliver more than just talk for the world’s ailing and neglected seas.
