London (AFP) – Britain said farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday at a historic state funeral attended by world leaders, before a ceremonial journey past hundreds of thousands of mourners to her final place of rest.
The Moscow-installed head of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, announces that it will hold a “referendum on the incorporation of the Khersion region into the Russian Federation”. Saldo added he will “not turn away” from reunification with Russia.
The day after the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, newspapers dedicate their frontpages to the late monarch and, with the crowds gone, workers in London remove equipment and uninstall fixtures outside Buckingham Palace and in Hyde Park.
Jinja (Uganda) (AFP) – The four-day Ugandan music festival Nyege Nyege is taking place again after three years off due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 300 DJs from various African and European countries, as well as the US and Japan are playing across seven stages, entertaining 12,000 revelers on the banks of river Nile.
Kampala (AFP) – The Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed the first death from Ebola since 2019, an instance of the Sudan strain, in Mubende district, 150 kilometers west of the capital Kampala. A 24-year-old male “presented with EVD symptoms and later succumbed”, the ministry announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
Tehran (AFP) – Protests have broken out in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the “morality police” that enforces a strict dress code. Her death has reignited calls to rein in morality police actions against women suspected of violating the dress code, in effect since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Geneva (AFP) – The spokesperson for the acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reads a statement on Mahsa Amini’s death in custody after she was arrested by Iran’s “morality police” and the violent crackdown on protests over her death.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – McDonald’s re-opens a restaurant in Ukraine for the first time since Russia’s invasion. The highly-anticipated relaunch has been seen by many Ukrainians as a symbolic show of support, with the chain remaining shuttered in Russia. Seven more restaurants are expected to re-open in Kyiv, followed by restaurants in other cities in the west of the country.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns international leaders of a looming “winter of global discontent” in a world beset by multiple crises from the Ukraine war to a warming climate. “Trust is crumbling, inequalities are exploding, our planet is burning,” Guterres says as he opens the annual General Assembly.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to tax fossil fuel companies and use the proceeds to compensate for damage from climate change and provide relief over rising prices. “Let’s tell it like it is — our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It’s time for an intervention. We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account,” Guterres says in an address to open the UN General Assembly.
New York (AFP) – Images of the United Nations headquarters among the Manhattan skyline as the 77th UN General Assembly week kicks off in New York.
Hong Kong (AFP) – Mourners around the world paid their respects to Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.
