La Paz (AFP) – Bolivian former right-wing president Jeanine Anez is released from prison after more than four years behind bars, a day after the Supreme Court annulled her 10-year sentence for alleged coup plotting. IMAGES
Belém (AFP) – Indigenous peoples mark the start of COP30 talks, as world leaders meet in Brazil in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States’ shunning the gathering. Dozens of heads of state and government are in the rainforest city of Belem ahead of next week’s UN climate talks that come after scientists confirmed the safer limit of the Paris Agreement would be breached.
City of Industry (AFP) – Hundreds of cars queue in California’s City of Industry, as people wait for hours to receive food donations amid an ongoing US government shutdown. Both Democrats and Republicans remain unwavering over the main sticking point in the current stoppage — health care spending. Democrats say they will only provide votes to end the funding lapse after a deal has been struck to extend expiring insurance subsidies that make health care affordable for millions of Americans. But Republicans insist they will only address health care once Democrats have voted to switch the lights back on in Washington.
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a trilateral meeting with Britain’s Prince William and UK Prime minister Keir Starmer on the sidelines of a leaders summit in Belem ahead of COP30. IMAGES
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Special guests, official delegations, press and workers arrive at the media centre to participate in the start of the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil. IMAGES
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – The world has “failed” in its promise to hold warming below 1.5C, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells global leaders in Brazil, warning of greater costs and destruction for every nation. At a leaders summit in Belem ahead of COP30 climate talks, Guterres says decades of delay and denial meant “we have failed to ensure we remain below 1.5 degrees” of warming since the pre-industrial era, the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious goal. SOUNDBITE
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Special guests, official delegations, press and workers arrive at the media centre to participate in the start of the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil. IMAGES
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Britain’s Prince William says humanity is at a “pivotal moment” as he addresses world leaders at COP30 in the Brazilian city of Belem. IMAGES
Belém (Brésil) (AFP) – Special guests, official delegations, press and workers arrive at the media centre to participate in the start of the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil. IMAGES
Brüssel (AFP) – The European Commission says it takes the risks of illegal product sales on Shein “extremely seriously”. This comes after France urged Brussels to crack down on the sale of childlike sex dolls on Shein’s French website.
Berlin (AFP) – November’s supermoon, the biggest and brightest of 2025, lights up the sky in Idlib, Berlin and Nicosia.
New York (AFP) – New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, says he will leave “a door open” for US President Donald Trump and “stand up for the city,” in his first press conference since his victory.
