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Indore (India) (AFP) – The death toll from a floor collapse at a Hindu temple in India rose to 36 on Friday, when rescuers discovered the body of the last person missing.

Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces he signed a decree approving an “updated” strategy for Russia’s foreign policy. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said Friday that the new adopted policy identifies the West as posing an “existential” threat to Moscow.

Bucha (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vows to defeat Russia as he made a visit to Bucha with several European leaders one year after Moscow’s troops withdrew from the town synonomous with war crimes allegations. 

Beijing (AFP) – China says that it is firmly opposed to “any form of official exchanges” between the US and Taiwan. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen is stopping over in the United States en route to Central America.

West Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) – A New York grand jury on Thursday indicted Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star during his 2016 campaign, making him the first former US president to face criminal charges.

New York (AFP) – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg leaves his office in New York after a grand jury voted to indict former US president Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. IMAGES

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Aerial images of Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro at sunrise. of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue

The US State Department is “incredibly concerned” about reports that Russia arrested an American journalist, a US State Department spokesman tells reporters at a press briefing.

Beijing (AFP) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro will visit China “as soon as possible”, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Thursday, after the Central American country cut off diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Mao also slammed Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen’s transit in New York.

Basilan (Philippines) (AFP) – An aerial shot shows smoke rising from a passenger ferry that caught fire in the southern Philippines. Rescuers and local officials are also present at the site, while a coast guard vessel is at work putting out the fire. At least 31 people died in the blaze, including 18 people whose bodies were found on the vessel. Another video released by the provincial government of Basilan shows rescuers and local officials working as the fire engulfs the vessel.

Berlin (AFP) – Europe’s security has come under threat amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Britain’s King Charles tells German MPs, adding however that “we can draw courage from our unity”.

“The future of food can be better and different from what we have now” says Tim Noakesmith, the co-founder of Vow, an Australian meat cultivation company that has created a meatball using DNA from the extinct woolly mammoth. Speaking at a presentation event at Amsterdam’s Nemo Science Museum, he explains how “you can use the mammoth meatball as a symbol for an exciting future that is better for the planet and avoid the perils of what we had originally with the woolly mammoth and maybe eat our way out of extinction”. One of the meatballs is displayed under a glass bell jar, but the product is not ready to eat yet, with its thousands-of-years-old protein requiring safety testing first.