Paris (AFP) – Almost 1,000 collectors criss-cross the French capital at the wheel of vintage cars, motorbikes, bicycles and even tractors, for the 25th “Traversee de Paris”, organised annually by the “Vincennes en Anciennes” motoring club.
Lima (AFP) – Peru’s President Dina Boluarte arrives at the prosecutor’s office in Lima to testify about a nose job that sparked intense controversy, with some lawmakers calling for her to be removed from office for not delegating her responsibilities during the procedure. IMAGES
Sälen (Sweden) (AFP) – Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks at the Folk och Forsvar defence forum in the central town of Salen on threats to his country from Russia and Iran. “We and our neighbouring countries are subjected to hybrid attacks that are not carried out with missiles and soldiers but with computers, money, disinformation and threats of sabotage,” he says.
Deir el-Balah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinian paediatrician Khaled al-Saidani moves through his Gaza hospital with determination, using a prosthetic leg and an aluminium walker as he cares for children also injured in the war. He knows all too well the devastating impact of wounds sustained during war, having lost his right leg after an Israeli air strike on his house last year.
Mbouini (Mayotte) (AFP) – Less than a month after the ravages of cyclone Chido, residents of Mbouini are coping with downpours and flooding in Mayotte, due to tropical storm Dikeledi, which killed three people in Madagascar.
Xiamen (China) (AFP) – Donald Trump is not typically known for his calm or reserve, but in a craftsman’s workshop in rural China the US president-elect sits in divine contemplation.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to hand captured North Korean soldiers to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in exchange for the return of Ukrainian POWs from Russia.
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores leave the Capitolio -home of the National Assembly- after he was sworn in for a third six-year term in office despite a global outcry. IMAGES
Santiago de Chile (AFP) – Chile announces the largest seizure of methamphetamine made to date in the South American country, with 844 kilos of this synthetic drug whose sale value was estimated at approximately 16 million dollars.
Riga (AFP) – As Riga Russian Theatre’s actors rehearse the season’s big premiere, “Lady Macbeth”, they know the play’s poster will not crop up around the Latvian capital as it normally would. The city council has prohibited the theatre from advertising its shows in Russian — the language of the Baltic state’s biggest minority. The use of the language and more generally the rights of ethnic Russians living in Latvia have become sensitive issues in a country that fervently backs Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
Melbourne (AFP) – Australian police release CCTV footage of a bungling arsonist who set their own pants alight and had to hot-foot it from the scene without them. The attack took place in the early hours of Christmas morning on a fast-food outlet in the southern city of Melbourne.
Malibu (AFP) – Rubble and burnt husks are all that remain of luxury homes that once stood along stretches of the scenic Pacific Coast Highway, as many properties were devastated by the wildfires raging around Los Angeles.
