Beijing (AFP) – China says it hopes the UK will ‘facilitate normal operations’ of the Chinese embassy and consulates after the reported beating of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester in the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, northern England.
EU foreign ministers meet to adopt sanctions on Iran. Several countries are expected to condemn the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters — while stressing the need to revive a moribund nuclear deal with Tehran. IMAGES
Berlin (AFP) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender welcomes the Spanish Royal couple, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, to Berlin with military honours.
Stockholm (AFP) – Moderates leader Ulf Kristesson arrives at Sweden’s parliament, where he is expected to be voted the country’s new Prime Minister just over a month after the right-wing won a narrow victory in a general election that ousted the Social Democrats after eight years in power.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian police officers open fire at what the Ukrainian presidency claims are “kamikaze drones” swooping low across the skies of Kyiv, with smoke rising from where the drones struck.
Belgorod (Russia) (AFP) – The Russian Belgorod region bordering Ukraine was hit by strikes on Sunday, leaving at least four people injured in the latest attacks in the area, Russian officials said. Around 16 explosions were recorded in the city of Belgorod, Russia’s investigative committee, which investigates serious crimes, said Sunday. The city of 330,000, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Ukrainian border, had until recently rarely been hit, unlike the surrounding region. The attacks come a day after an oil depot was hit in the same area.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Smoke billows from a struck building and Ukraine’s emergency services rush to the scene of a strike after Russian-launched “kamikaze drones” attacked Kyiv early Monday, the Ukrainian presidency said, describing the strikes as an act of desperation nearly eight months into a war that has claimed thousands of lives.
To end a “Weekend of Resistance” organised by Extinction Rebellion, people march from Hyde Park to Parliament Square in London, to show the British government their vision for the future regarding the environment.
Under low, stormy skies, workers pick bunches of grey-pink grapes at a small vineyard in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, the birthplace of viticulture in the country and its most iconic wine, koshu. With its abundant rains and formidable summer humidity, Japan does not seem to be an ideal land for wine. But local winegrowers have worked to adapt and perfect the craft, picking up awards on the way.
Sierra Leone’s first professional women’s football league kicks off with a match in the northern city of Makeni between the Mena Queens and Kahunla Queens, beginning a six-month season in which 12 clubs will battle it out for the top spot.
On a makeshift bridge that was set up for a limited time in the middle of the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border, hundreds of families separated by the drama of irregular migration reunite albeit briefly to express their love for one another.
Paris (AFP) – Gladys Foggea is a dancer with paraplegia who doesn’t let her wheelchair hinder her when it comes to pursuing her passion. She is part of an organisation called ‘La Possible Échappée’, which works with dancers who have disabilities.
