Montevideo (AFP) – More than 10,000 kilometers from France, its land of origin, a red grape with a reputation for harshness has proved popular in meat-loving Uruguay, putting the tiny South American country on the world’s wine map. Tannat was brought to Uruguay in the 1870s and has found its crowd, as enologist Eduardo Boido explains: “our gastronomy is based on meat…you eat meat and drink Tannat and it cleans the mouth.”
Voorschoten (Netherlands) (AFP) – With a double-decker passenger carriage lying in a meadow, and a second on its side next to the tracks, residents of Voorschoten in the Netherlands recount a train crash that has killed at least one and left dozens more injured, some seriously. “We heard a very loud bang” says Jaron Ooms, “it was really scary”. Rail operators say the high-speed passenger train, which was travelling from Leiden to The Hague, collided with a maintenance crane on the tracks.
Zurich (AFP) – Credit Suisse chairman, Axel Lehmann, says he is “truly sorry” that the bank could not be saved. Speaking in front of angry and tearful shareholders, Credit Suisse chiefs fronted up at the bank’s annual general meeting, 16 days after its hastily-arranged takeover by larger Swiss rival UBS — a mega-merger in which the shareholders of both banks had no say at all. “I lost 10,000 Swiss francs” says one of those visibly upset outside the meeting in Zurich, “it’s many money for my family.”
Cundinamarca (Colombia) (AFP) – One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This is true for Colombian artist Edison Camacho, who recycles tyres and other discarded materials into sculptures which he then displays in The Tyre Museum in San Francisco de Sales, Cundinamarca, Colombia. “People think it’s no longer useful” he says, “but it still works, it’s still useful, it’s still alive.”
Wolverhampton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The first new face in 70 years, as postage stamps featuring King Charles III are printed in a factory in Wolverhampton. The stamps go on sale in post offices across the UK today with Charles, who succeeds his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, set to be coronated in May.
Dhaka (AFP) – Hundreds of firefighters on Tuesday battle an immense blaze at a popular clothing market in the Bangladeshi capital, blanketing the city’s oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke.
Brussels (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell arrive for an EU-US energy council meeting.
Houston (AFP) – NASA unveils the crew for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years – including the first woman and Black man to make the voyage. The Artemis II flight is a prelude to returning humans to the Moon for the first time in a half century and an eventual mission to Mars.
New York (AFP) – Former US President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York, where he will surrender to criminal charges on Tuesday. IMAGES
Nabeul (Tunisia) (AFP) – Samia Atig Marzoug picks orange blossoms while Rania Mansour holds a container to be filled with freshly-distilled orange blossom water extract, as part of a traditional craft in which Tunisians in the northeastern city of Nabeul take pride.
New York (AFP) – Police officers stand outside New York’s Trump Tower, where Donald Trump is expected to spend the night after leaving Florida. The former US President will surrender to criminal charges at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, taking the United States into uncharted and potentially volatile territory.
New York (AFP) – New York police increase security measures around Trump Tower ahead of the former president’s arraignment. The 76-year-old, who was indicted last week over hush-money payments made to a porn star during his successful 2016 presidential campaign, is expected to hand himself over to authorities on Tuesday. The NYPD is on high alert over potential protests by the former president’s supporters. “We know that there’s been an illegal indictment against our authentic president” says Candace Rojas, lending her support outside the Trump International Golf Club in Florida.
