Khartoum (Sudan) (AFP) – Smoke rises in Khartoum as fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan enters a fourth day. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Mumbai (India) (AFP) – Apple opens its first retail store in India, underscoring the US tech titan’s increasing focus on the South Asian nation as a key sales market and alternative manufacturing hub to China.
Avdiivka (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the heavily bombarded frontline town of Avdiivka in the east of the country, where he hands out awards to soldiers, according to images released by the Ukrainian Presidency.
London (AFP) – Coach Carlo Ancelotti declares Real Madrid the “kings of the competition” as he looks ahead to his team’s Champions League quarter-final second leg against Chelsea. “We are just a small part of the grand history of this club that has won the competition 14 times… We will be ready to play our best,” the man known to fans as “Don Carlo” adds.
Unknown (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Ukraine’s Kherson and Lugansk regions to meet with military commanders, according to images released by the Kremlin. If true, it marks the first time Putin has visited the frontline regions, which are partly controlled by Russian troops, since Moscow annexed them along with two others last September.
Karachi (Pakistan) (AFP) – After midnight during Ramadan, floodlights turn Karachi’s streets and courts into urban cricket pitches, where dozens of young Pakistani men smack taped-up tennis balls across the city.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – At her first news conference in her home country since her historic best actress win, Malaysian Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh speaks up for diversity and women’s empowerment in Hollywood, telling reporters in Kuala Lumpur “we should never allow somebody to put us in a box”.
Wilmington (United States) (AFP) – Legal teams arrive at the Leonard Williams Justice Center, where the Dominion Voting Systems defamation trial against FOX News is taking place, with opening arguments expected Tuesday, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Al Mansurah (Egypt) (AFP) – People in the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, on the banks of the Nile, prepare feseekh, the local specialty. The millennia-old delicacy of saltwater fish is a staple as people celebrate the ancient spring festival of Sham al-Nessim.
Galápagos (Ecuador) (AFP) – Researchers on a scientific expedition have found previously unknown pristine coral reef off Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, supporting a rich, diverse marine life.
Lincoln (United States) (AFP) – About 300 history enthusiasts reenact the Battle Road fight between British soldiers and American colonial militiamen that followed the Battles at Lexington and Concord of April 19, 1775, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
As Suwaydah (Syria) (AFP) – Images show clutter left behind after a US raid targeting an alleged senior Islamic State group leader in Al Suwaydah, a village about 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of the town of Jarabulus on Syria’s northern border with Turkey.
