Pereira (Colombia) (AFP) – Rescuers from the Colombian army help clear debris in Pereira a day after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the country, killing at least 181 people. IMAGES
Pereira (Colombia) (AFP) – Colombian volunteers and rescuers clear rubble with their bare hands and buckets to search for survivors after the country’s strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 132 people and flattened buildings.
Pereira (Colombie) (AFP) – Emergency services, civilians and members of the armed forces clear rubble in the Colombian town of Pereira, following a deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that shook several cities across the country’s coffee-producing region and the Pacific coast. At least 111 people have died, an unknown number of people are still buried under debris, and over 1,500 buildings have been damaged. IMAGES
Manizales (Colombie) (AFP) – Clean-up operations have begun in the Colombian town of Manizales, following a deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that shook several cities across the country’s coffee-producing region and the Pacific coast. At least 111 people have died, an unknown number of people are still buried under rubble, and over 1,500 buildings have been damaged. IMAGES
London (AFP) – Aerial images show the dried-out banks of a pond in London, as the UK’s Met Office says a new heatwave is set to hit southern and central England. According to provisional figures, last month was the driest July on record for England and Wales.
Gaza (AFP) – Gaza beekeeper Ibrahim al-Dabba and his sons tend beehives on a rooftop after he lost around 400 hives east of the city during the war. “Just as we are displaced in the streets, the bees are also displaced on the rooftops,” says al-Dabba, head of the Beekeepers Cooperative in the Gaza Strip.
Paris (AFP) – Dead leaves, scorched lawns and struggling plants give Paris an autumnal appearance well before the season, as repeated heatwaves take a growing toll on urban vegetation.
Trie-sur-Baïse (AFP) – The French village of Trie-sur-Baise celebrates the 43rd edition of its Pourcailhade festival, an unusual event famed for its pig-squealing championship. The commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees welcomes around 4,000 visitors, four times its population, for the festival, which was first held in 1981.
Moskau (AFP) – Russia’s Investigative Committee is launching a terrorism investigation following a Ukrainian drone attack on the Republic of Tatarstan that has killed 13 people, including a child, and injured 75 others. The Ukrainian attack on the central Russian region is one of the deadliest carried out by Kyiv since the war began more than four years ago.
Moscow (AFP) – In Russia, where protests against the war in Kyiv are promptly repressed, an old liberal party emerges. With every parliamentary vote since 2003 being won by the ruling “United Russia” party, Yabloko has resurfaced three months before the September Duma elections, drawing in young voters. “If we can save people’s lives, then our involvement will not have been for nothing,” says the party’s chairman. The party has already received the backing of several exiled opposition figures, including Yulia Navalnaya — the widow of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny — both listed as “extremists” in Russia.
Osijek (Croatia) (AFP) – Water levels of rivers across the Balkans continue to reach record lows, disrupting navigation and threatening energy supplies. On the Drava River near Osijek in Croatia, dry stretches of riverbed expose long-submerged boats, while cargo boats remain stranded on the Danube near Sarengrad.
Weybridge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Thousands of motorsport fans and vintage car enthusiasts flock to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, southwest of London, for an event marking almost exactly 100 years since the first British Grand Prix took place on 7th August 1926. “The car is alive, it’s fantastic to drive, it’s light, nimble, plenty of power, and sounds glorious. It’s the closest thing I’ve got to being a genuine work of art in metal,” says Julian Eckersley, owner of a vintage Bugatti car.
