Santiago (AFP) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric signs a decree officiating a plan to find the missing victims of the country’s dictatorship, at a ceremony held outside La Moneda Palace in the capital city of Santiago. IMAGES
Brasília (AFP) – Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes rally in the capital, Brasilia, as Brazil’s Supreme Court weighs the legality of the so-called “time-frame argument,” which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988. IMAGES
Libreville (AFP) – A video from an anonymous source shows Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, calling on his “friends all over the world to make noise” while under house arrest following a coup.
Buñol (Spain) (AFP) – Visitors from around the world gather in Buñol, Spain, to take part in La Tomatina festival. Held on the last Wednesday of August, the event is a giant food fight that sees participants throwing huge quantities of tomatoes at each other. “What I like most about Tomatina is the people and the energy” says Huala Caloch, a visitor from India, “all the very positive energy.”
Abaetetuba (Brazil) (AFP) – Working in the sweltering heat of the Brazilian Amazon, Jose Diogo scales a tree and harvests a cluster of black berries: acai, the trendy “superfood” reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest. Acai has unleashed an economic boom for traditional farmers in the Amazon region, and been lauded as a way to bring “green development” to the rainforest without destroying it. But experts say it is also threatening the Amazon’s biodiversity, as single-crop fields of acai palms become increasingly common.
Libreville (AFP) – A dozen Gabonese soldiers announce they are “putting an end to the current regime” and cancelling the results of a recent election that, according to official results, was won by President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Tokyo (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dines on Fukushima fish in a renewed public relations effort to support Japanese seafood, after wastewater was released from the area’s crippled nuclear plant into the Pacific. The clip is part of a bid to promote products from the wider Sanriku Joban area, 12 years after Fukushima was devastated by a huge earthquake and tsunami that triggered one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. The conservative leader joined three other ministers in his office for sashimi fish slices, boiled pork, fruits, rice and various vegetables.
Libreville (AFP) – In a statement broadcast on state television, military officers announce that Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been put under house arrest.
Keelung (Taiwan) (AFP) – People in northern Taiwan release flaming water lanterns to invite ancestors and those who perished at sea to come ashore and feast during Hungry Ghost Month. Filled with joss papers, the colourful lanterns, which resemble an ancient Chinese guesthouse, are an invitation to all underworld spirits to enter the earthly realm.
Beijing (AFP) – Foreign Secretary James Cleverly meets with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during a trip to Beijing, the first visit by Britain’s top diplomat for over five years.
San Marino (United States) (AFP) – Visitors flock to the Huntington Botanical Garden in California to watch and smell the ephemeral blooming of a corpse flower, which smells of “rotting flesh” according to gardener Bryce Dunn. “It’s more like a dumpster in a big city where you walk by and smell the garbage. It’s good… if you like it,” says a visitor.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Dozens of mourners gather at a Catholic church in Kyiv to pay hommage to a respected fighter pilot. Andriy Pilshchykov died last week with two other pilots during a training flight over the northern Zhytomyr region.
