Khartoum (AFP) – Abdallah Ahmed and Saleh Abdalla have for years been enamoured with the Rastafari tradition which emerged in Jamaica last century. In their home country of Sudan, the community has largely lived underground under the autocratic rule of Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 following mass protests against his regime. Sudanese Rastafarians now say they are being targeted anew.
Washington (AFP) – Netflix unveils a long-awaited trailer for a six-part docuseries in which Prince Harry and his wife Meghan lift the lid on their lives in the royal family. The release of the trailer coincides with Harry’s elder brother William’s first trip to the United States as Prince of Wales and another race row within the family back home.
Washington (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron hails the decision by UNESCO to give heritage status to the French baguette. “In these few centimeters of craftsmanship passed from hand to hand lies the spirit of French know-how,” the French president says in a speech to the French community at the French Embassy in Washington, DC.
Madrid (AFP) – The United State’s Embassy in Madrid, Spain, was sent a booby-trapped letter bomb – a day after a similar one went off in the Ukrainian Embassy and a week after another was sent to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. IMAGES
Lodz (Poland) (AFP) – Polish President Andrzej Duda and foreign ministers arrive at the first Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial council since the start of the war in Ukraine, held in Lodz, Poland.
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain) (AFP) – Colombian singer Shakira and Spanish footballer Gerard Pique arrive separately to L’Hospitalet de Llobregat’s courthouse, near Barcelona, to ratify their separation request and the agreement on their children’s custody. They came out 20 minutes later.
Beijing (AFP) – EU chief Charles Michel holds a meeting with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang during his trip to Beijing aimed to seek help on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine and in rebalancing trade between China and Europe.
Yangzhou (China) (AFP) – Chinese mourners lay flowers outside Jiang Zemin’s former residence in his hometown Yangzhou, near Shanghai, after the former leader died on Wednesday. State media said Jiang had died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai at the age of 96, and that funeral preparations had begun.
Chasiv Yar (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainians evacuate from Chasiv Yar, a city near Bakhmut, where heavy fighting has taken place. The volunteer organization Vostok SOS takes people to the railway station in Pokrovsk, where the evacuation trains depart.
Khejarli (India) (AFP) – The Bishnois are India’s original eco-warriors, believing in the sanctity of all life, shunning meat and avoiding felling living trees. Spread mostly in hamlets across Rajasthan, the community draw inspiration from Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman killed in 1730 while trying to protect the khejari trees.
Dhaka (AFP) – As Argentina claimed a decisive 2-0 World Cup victory over Poland early Wednesday, thousands of fans were erupting in celebration thousands of kilometres away on a grassy field in Bangladesh. From young children to retirees, many clad in blue and white or waving Argentinian flags, the throng stood for nearly the entire match as they watched on giant screens in the main square of the capital’s Dhaka University.
Police patrol at the intersection near the hospital where former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is rumoured to have died. Jiang died on Wednesday in Shanghai at the age of 96, state media reported, hailing him as a great communist revolutionary who helped quell the 1989 pro-democracy protests. IMAGES
