Malang (Indonesia) (AFP) – Arema FC fans and local communities light up candles and hold a mass prayer outside Kanjuruhan stadium in the Indonesian city Malang, where scores of people died in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.
Walnut Creek (United States) (AFP) – American physicist John Clauser has won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics — a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of ultra-powerful computers. “It’s a vindication of work that I had started more than 50 years ago, and at that time everybody told me I was wasting my time,” Clauser says.
South Korea (South Korea) (AFP) – The South Korean and US militaries fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said Wednesday. Nuclear-armed North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to issue evacuation warnings for some residents. South Korea and the United States staged a drill of their own in response, firing ground-to-ground missiles into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, Seoul’s military said.
Lokoja (Nigeria) (AFP) – Hundreds of homes are destroyed, thousands of people homeless, and roads left inaccessible, after the worst flooding in a decade in Nigeria’s Kogi State.
Kotka (Finland) (AFP) – The eastern Finnish city of Kotka removes a statue of Lenin from a public park in the city centre, near a wooden house where the Bolshevik Party founder is rumoured to have stayed. The statue is the last large public monument to the Soviet leader to remain in the Nordic country.
Atacama (Chile) (AFP) – Flowers bloom in the southern part of the Atacama Desert, the most arid region of the world. Chilean President Gabriel Boric recently announced that the area would be made a national park to protect the flowering phenomenon.
Zelenodolsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Hundreds of abandoned bicycles in a small warehouse in the town of Zelenodolsk, near Ukraine’s southern front line, tell the stories of their owners, who were forced to flee Russia’s invasion. They come in all colours: green, red, black, blue… One has a knitted saddle cover, another a small pouch attached to the frame, many others look rusty and tested by time. “People were running away with what they could take,” says municipal worker, Vitaliy Rekhlitsky, “you could see that there were bags on the bikes.”
Panmunjom (South Korea) (AFP) – Images of the Panmunjom, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and North Korea seen from South Korea. North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate the country’s missile alert system and order people to take shelter. The last time North Korea fired a missile over Japan was in 2017, at the height of a period of “fire and fury” when Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un traded insults with then-US president Donald Trump. South Korea’s military said it had detected the launch of an IRBM, which flew around 4,500 km (2800 miles) at an altitude of about 970 km and speeds of around Mach 17. IMAGES
Malang (Indonesia) (AFP) – Local communities pray outside Indonesia’s Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang three days after the deadly stampede that killed at least 125 people.
Beijing (AFP) – Ahead of the 20th Party Congress, where President Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term, former Tsinghua University political science professor Wu Qiang speaks about a “transformation of the party” during the leader’s first ten years in power. “(Xi Jinping) wants to become the successor to Mao, and even wants to make China the sole rightful inheritor of the global Communist movement today,” Wu says in a small, book-strewn apartment on the outskirts of Beijing. He is one of the last Chinese academics who refuses to be silenced by the Communist Party’s crackdown on intellectuals.
Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentines gather in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo for an improvised barter fair to exchange goods and protest high inflation and low wages. “We are doing it so that the government can see the situation we are in, that the salary we have is not enough for anything”, says Felix, a bartering participant. This exchange method was very common in Argentina during the 2001 economic crisis.
Malang (Indonesia) (AFP) – At least 125 people, including 32 children, died in Indonesia’s stadium crush on the 1 October, as police moved to punish those responsible for one of the deadliest disasters in football history.
