La Palma Island (Spain) (AFP) – Exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont “must be brought to justice,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says, a day after the former regional head was arrested in Italy after fleeing Spain.
Saint-Malo (France) (AFP) – A small company in the Brittany town of Saint-Malo claims to be the first factory in France to knit jumpers in 3D, without seams or waste.
Milton Keynes (United Kingdom) (AFP) – These supermarket deliveries are not only contactless, but done by a robot. Robotics firm Starship are trialling these deliveries in the UK, with a US expansion already underway.
Johnsondale (United States) (AFP) – Hundreds of firefighters are battling the Windy Fire to protect several groves of giant sequoias in the United States. The fire has already charred 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares), and a number of separate fires are converging on the California woodland that is home to the huge trees.
Beheira (Egypt) (AFP) – With just a knife, brush and pencil, 30-year-old Egyptian sculpture artist Ibrahim Belal is a master of his tools, creating miniature sculptures of the most prominent Pharaonic and Egyptian landmarks at his home in the city of Rashid, in the Beheira Governorate, some 300 kilometres south of Cairo. He dreams of creating one of the first first museum’s of miniature sculptures in the Middle East.
Washington (AFP) – Speaking to UK media in Washington D.C., British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that France should, in Franglais, “prenez un grip” (“get a grip”) and “donnez-moi un break” (“give me a break”) regarding the AUKUS submarine deal which saw France ousted from a strategic contract with Australia.
New York (AFP) – Heiko Mass, Germany’s Foreign Minister calls the AUKUS submarine deal “irritating” as he addresses reporters on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. France was infuriated last week when Australia cancelled a multi-billion-dollar contract for conventional submarines, saying it wanted to upgrade to US-made nuclear versions as it entered a new alliance with the United States and Britain.
Hong Kong (AFP) – Images of Hong Kong’s now-shuttered Tiananmen Museum, showing what is left at the site after a police raid earlier this month. Hong Kong Police raided the museum commemorating Beijing’s deadly crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, a day after they arrested four members of the group that ran the venue.
Montreal (AFP) – Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have won the Canadian legislative elections, a half-victory, however, for the incumbent Prime Minister who failed to gain a majority.
Vlorë (Albania) (AFP) – Warming sea temperatures, pollution and dynamite fishing are causing Adriatic marine forests to disappear, a worrying trend which prompted Albanian experts to join a Mediterranean programme to restore them with ‘good algaes’.
Managua (AFP) – Thousands of Nicaraguans over the age of 30 queue to receive the first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine as the Central American country sees an increase in coronavirus cases.
Perm (Russia) (AFP) – A gunman opened fire on a university campus and killed six people before being detained in the Russian city of Perm, around 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) east of Moscow.
