Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden says that US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is “on her way home” after being freed from Russia in a prisoner swap. “She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home,” Biden says during remarks at the White House.
Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) – Clashes between M23 rebels and the Congolese army have displaced tens of thousands of people in the east of the DRC. Living near the road leading to Goma, the displaced are facing starvation and often have to “fight” for the meagre rations distributed by NGOs and the Congolese government.
Lisbon (AFP) – Images posted on December 7th show heavy flooding in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, inundating buildings, submerging roads and killing at least one. Lisbon City Hall has issued a red alert warning.
Moscow (AFP) – At an award ceremony in Moscow, president Vladimir Putin hints that Russia will continue strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, saying that the “uproar and clamour spreading through the universe” will not “interfere with our combat missions”.
Lima (AFP) – Peru’s leftist president Pedro Castillo was ousted by lawmakers and arrested Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in a country long prone to political upheaval. Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer who had been vice president, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president just hours after Castillo tried to dissolve Congress in a move criticized as an attempted coup.
Lima (AFP) – Peru’s leftist president Pedro Castillo was ousted by lawmakers and arrested Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in a country long prone to political upheaval. Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer who had been vice president, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president just hours after Castillo tried to dissolve Congress in a move criticised as an attempted coup.
jarandilla de la Vera (Spain) (AFP) – Spaniards pour onto the street to celebrate the “Los Escobazos”, a festival where people set huge brooms on fire and playfully hit each other.
Montreal (AFP) – As part of a unique pilot project in Canada, the canteen at Polytechnique Montreal now indicates the carbon footprint of some of its dishes in order to inform and raise awareness among its students.
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Images of the opening of the hearing as Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun and two former managers go on trial in Munich over a spectacular accounting fraud scandal that brought down the once celebrated payments company two and a half years ago. IMAGES
Ulaanbaatar (AFP) – Protesters take to the streets of Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar for a fifth day after the arrests of officials allegedly tied to a coal industry embezzlement scandal that has sparked public outrage. IMAGES
Lima (AFP) – Pedro Castillo is transferred from the Police Headquarters to a police facility in east Lima. Castillo was ousted by lawmakers and arrested after trying to dissolve the South American country’s Congress in a move widely condemned as an attempted coup. The dizzying series of events in a country long prone to political upheaval resulted in even more history, with Vice President Dina Boluarte later becoming Peru’s first woman president. IMAGES
Nashik (India) (AFP) – India’s largest winemaker Sula Vineyards is heading to the stock market, betting on the diversifying tastebuds of a booming urban middle class in a country that has long favoured heavy liquors.
