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Helsingborg (Sweden) (AFP) – US President Donald Trump leaves heads spinning as NATO foreign ministers gather in the Swedish city of Helsingborg after he announced he would send 5,000 troops to Poland, in an apparent reversal of Washington earlier calling off the planned deployment. The shift is welcomed by NATO chief Mark Rutte and Poland’s foreign minister, but fuels concerns about a lack of coordination between the United States and its allies.

London (AFP) – England’s men’s national football team manager Thomas Tuchel says he does not “fear” leaving big name talents, such as Phil Foden, Cole Palmer and Trent Alexander-Arnold, out of his squad for the World Cup, though he admits the decisions were “very difficult”. England are among the favourites to win the tournament, 60 years after they won their only major international trophy.

Nuuk (AFP) – Greenlanders march against US President Donald Trump’s desire to control the vast Arctic island, after the inauguration of the US consulate’s new premises in the capital, Nuuk. “We have always lived in Greenland. It has always been our land. So there is no one who can buy us,” says participant Solveig Kramer. “We are not for sale.”

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says the club “needs a new manager, new energy,” after announcing that he will leave his role at the end of the season following a trophy-laden decade that transformed English football. “Ten years is a lot of time and I think the club needs a new manager, new energy with these incredible players that we have right now and start to write another chapter,” he says at the press conference ahead of his final game in charge for City, against Aston Villa.

Chachapoyas (Peru) (AFP) – A group of Peruvian archaeologists unearths a U-shaped tomb containing the remains of five people and ceremonial offerings dating back 600 years at the pre-Hispanic fortress of Kuelap. It is the first systematic excavation carried out at one of the access areas to the monumental complex, located in Peru’s Amazonas region.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – Brazilian civil police seized around 200,000 counterfeit stickers from the official 2026 World Cup album and confiscated thousands of fake Brazil national team jerseys during an operation in Nova Iguacu, in Rio de Janeiro state’s Baixada Fluminense region, authorities said. IMAGES

Havana (AFP) – Cuban authorities gather outside the US Embassy in Havana in support of former President Raul Castro, who was indicted by the United States for the murder of several Americans in 1996. IMAGES

Istanbul (AFP) – Israel says it has deported all the foreign activists seized by its forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, as the first group arrived in Turkey following global outcry over their treatment in custody.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – People across Ukraine take to the streets in traditional embroidered shirts to mark Vyshyvanka Day — a powerful symbol of identity, unity and cultural resilience, especially amid Russia’s ongoing invasion. “This is an important holiday that reminds us and the whole world that we are Ukrainians, that we are a distinct nation,” says Oksana Kravets, a post office worker wearing a Vyshyvanka.

Phnom Penh (AFP) – Cambodians paint their faces and bodies and don leaf skirts to dance through the streets of Phnom Penh in celebration of the guardian Pring Ka-ek spirit festival and to pray for rain and good fortune. “I also pray to the spirit to help in preventing a war between Cambodia and Thailand,” festival-goer Sem Pov tells AFP. The two countries agreed to a fragile ceasefire in December after two rounds of border clashes killed dozens of people.

London Colney (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Mikel Arteta says finding out Arsenal had won their first Premier League title in 22 years was “one of the best feelings I ever had.” The players had gathered at their London Colney training ground to watch Manchester City’s draw with Bournemouth, but Arteta says he couldn’t bring himself to watch the game. “I went home and had a barbecue (…) my eldest son opened the garden door, started to run towards me, crying, and said: ‘We are champions, daddy. It was beautiful.”

La Paz (AFP) – Protesters in Bolivia demonstrate and stage roadblocks, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. Small farmers, drivers, and other professions are demonstrating against price hikes, issues with bad fuel in gas stations, and a government they say is ruling by decree. The government has accused the protesters of trying to stage a “coup” but in his first remarks to the press in nearly a week Paz sounded a conciliatory note, setting up a body to give the protesters more of a say in policy.