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Ballymena (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Violence flares for a second night in a Northern Irish town after what police have called “racially motivated” attacks, sparked by the arrest of two teenagers accused of the attempted rape of a young girl. Five people have been arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour while a sixth was detained on suspicion of disorderly behaviour in Newtownabbey, a town 30 kilometres away, one of four other places including Belfast where protests erupted.

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Dozens of supporters gather outside the house of former president Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires a day after the country’s Supreme Court upheld her fraud conviction, for which she received a six-year prison sentence and was banned for life from holding public office. Kirchner has five days to turn herself over to the authorities. Kirchner was convicted in 2022 of fraudulent administration relating to the granting of public works tenders during her 2007-2015 presidency. IMAGES

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – Oscar-winning actress Zoe Saldana says her “heart is broken” following recent immigration raids in Los Angeles and the subsequent unrest. Speaking at the Pixar Studios’ “Elio” world premiere in Hollywood, the actress of Dominican and Puerto Rican ethnicity says “I’m very disappointed in my country.”

Flughafen Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle (AFP) – Sweden’s Greta Thunberg and 11 other pro-Palestinian activists arrested by Israeli authorities aboard an aid boat for Gaza were “kidnapped” in international waters, Thunberg says upon her arrival at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport after being expelled from Israel.

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentina’s ex-president Cristina Kirchner leaves her apartment, cheered by a crowd of supporters, as she heads to a meeting with senators from her party amid a pending Supreme Court decision. Kirchner faces possible arrest, with the court expected to rule soon on her appeal of a fraud conviction related to the awarding of public works contracts during her two-term presidency (2007-2015). IMAGES

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

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.