Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Footage shows a huge plume of smoke rising from where a plane crashed near Ahmedabad Airport in India. 242 passengers were on board the Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, that was bound for London’s Gatwick airport, India’s civil aviation authority has confirmed.
Seoul (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people are flocking to South Korea’s historic Blue House before the new president arrives. Ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol spurned the elegant compound but newly elected Lee Jae-myung plans to move the seat of power back.
Xingyi (China) (AFP) – Surrounded by the rubble of demolished homes, Chen Tianming has transformed his parent’s stone bungalow into a local spectacle. Authorities razed most of Chen Tianming’s village in Guizhou province in 2018 to build a lucrative tourist resort in a region known for its rice paddies and mountain landscapes. Chen refused to leave and, after the project faltered, defied a flurry of demolition notices to build his family’s home higher and higher.
Cochabamba (Bolivie) (AFP) – Police launch tear gas and supporters of Evo Morales throw dynamite and stones in a clash along a road near Bolivia’s Cochabamba, after President Luis Arce ordered police and military forces to break up a blockade on a vital road connecting western Bolivia with the centre of the country, 10 days after protests began by farmers loyal to Morales. IMAGES
Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentine ex-president Cristina Kirchner greets supporters from her home’s balcony a day after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction for the awarding of contracts while in office. This means Kirchner faces a six-year sentence and a lifelong ban on holding public office. IMAGES
Paris (AFP) – Dozens of tents lined the banks of the Canal Saint-Denis in northern Paris, until French police carried out the evacuation of the makeshift migrant camp. Young migrants seeking to have their minority status recognised packed their few belongings into garbage bags marked with the Paris city logo early in the morning.
Brookhaven (United States) (AFP) – Demonstrators gather in Brookhaven, a Hispanic suburb of Atlanta, and New York City to protest recent immigration raids and deportations carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Similar demonstrations have also sprung up in Chicago, San Francisco and Austin, after initially beginning in Los Angeles on 6 June. President Donald Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, along with 700 Marines, in what he has claimed is a necessary escalation to take back control — despite the insistence of local law enforcement that they could handle matters.
(AFP) – A handout video from the whale rescue group, Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans (ORRCA), shows a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope swimming south of Sydney Harbour as wildlife rescue teams search Australia’s east coast to free it.
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – People work to clear the destruction after 17 Russian Shahed drones struck two districts of Kharkiv overnight, according to local mayor Ihor Terekhov, killing three people and wounding at least 60. Two rounds of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have failed to yield a breakthrough in ending the war. Moscow has rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire and demanded that Ukraine give up large swathes of territory and its bid to join NATO.
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.”
