Corinto (Colombia) (AFP) – Destroyed buildings after a car bomb exploded in front of the City Hall in Corinto, in the Colombian department of Cauca. Officilas said four car bombs and three other explosive devices detonated in Cali and in villages across the southwest of the country, including Corinto. IMAGES
London (AFP) – Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, welcomes David Bull as the party’s new chairman. “I see this as the ultimate push. We are going to fight and we are going to win the next general election,” Bull says on stage after the announcement.
Bratunac (AFP) – Sadik Selimovic, a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacres, tells AFP about how searching for the missing remains of his family led him to become an investigator at the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed within a matter of days in July 1995 after Bosnian Serb forces captured Srebrenica. Three decades on, the remains of around 1,000 of the victims have yet to be found.
Bur Sudan (AFP) – Displaced Sudanese in the southern city of Port Sudan receive portions of meat on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha. Since the authorities fled the capital Khartoum at the start of the conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces(RSF), Port Sudan has become a haven for government ministries, the UN and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
Paris (AFP) – In an interview with AFP in Paris, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launches a scathing attack on current leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of having failed to protect Israeli citizens during the October 7 Hamas assault and “prioritising personal interests over what may be the national interests of Israel”.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Footage from Nine Network Australia shows the moment an Australian TV journalist was shot with a rubber bullet on Sunday while covering the ongoing protests against immigration arrests in Los Angeles. 9News reporter Lauren Tomasi was hit while reporting on live television. Her employer said she was sore but unharmed.
Brasília (AFP) – Images of the Brazilian Supreme Court, as the defendants in the coup trial of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro begin testifying. Bolsonaro, who governed Brazil from 2019 to 2022, will take the stand along with seven co-accused on charges of plotting to overturn the results of 2022 elections that Bolsonaro lost to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – Los Angeles residents respond to President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to the city, where protesters clashed with security forces during a weekend of unrest over federal immigration raids. “I think Trump deploying the National Guard is ridiculous,” says Estrella Corral, while Robert Ruvalcaba questions why similar action wasn’t taken during the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021.
Beed (India) (AFP) – Her voice breaking as she talks, Mirabai Khindkar recalls her husband Amol’s suicide. The farmer swallowed poison last year after scorching heat destroyed his crops, leaving him with massive debts to loan sharks. Amol was among thousands of Indian farmers to take their own lives in the last couple of years, with the country’s already volatile agriculture sector becoming even more erratic as a result of climate change-induced extreme weather.
At sea (AFP) – Israeli forces have boarded a Gaza-bound aid boat, preventing the activists on board from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory. Run by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the Madleen set sail on 1 June, carrying a small amount of aid, with the aim of raising awareness of food shortages in Gaza. Israel is facing mounting international pressure to allow more supplies into the territory, described by the UN as the “hungriest place on Earth.”
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – The UEFA Nations League final was “a duel”, says Portugal defender Nuno Mendes, following his side’s victory on penalties over Spain. Portugal twice fell behind and twice levelled to take the tie to a shootout and claim the country’s second Nations League title. Mendes credits Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo’s “winning mentality” after the 40-year-old scored the second equaliser.
Undisclosed (Ukraine) (AFP) – Images shared by Ukrainian and Russian authorities show freed prisoners of war returning home during the first stage of a major prisoner swap. The exchange was agreed at talks in Istanbul in early June, the only concrete agreement reached in the discussions. The deal will see the return of captured soldiers as well as the repatriation of bodies of fighters killed in the three-year war.
