Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) – Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta, a mediator for the seven-nation East African Community (EAC), arrives in eastern DR Congo’s main city of Goma, as fighting continues north of the city between the Congolese army and M23 rebels.
Doha (AFP) – Australian players refuse to expand on their comments about Qatar’s human rights record, saying they are fully focused on a daunting World Cup opener against defending champions France. The Gulf state has come under intense scrutiny over its treatment of migrant workers, women and the LGBTQ community in the run-up to the tournament, which starts on November 20. The Socceroos released a video last month featuring 16 players, in which they spoke out against rights abuses in Qatar, although they acknowledged progress had been made.
Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) – “Will you be on the right side of history? Will you end this moral and economic madness?”, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate asks leaders during her a speech at the COP27 summit.
Vienna (AFP) – Climate activists from the group ‘Letzte Generation Österreich’ (Last Generation Austria) pour black liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece “Death and Life” at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. “Restorers are working to determine whether the painting, protected by glass, has been damaged” said museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny.
Mashhad Rūḩīn (Syria) (AFP) – The Turkish government has pledged to finish building 100,000 homes to resettle the country’s large population of Syrian refugees. 600 of these homes were opened near the village of Mashhad Ruhin, in rebel-held northwest Syria, along the border with Turkey. Millions of Syrians have been forced to flee the civil, which began in 2011, and around 3.7 million are in Turkey.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, says that Ukraine’s conditions for restarting talks with Moscow are “unrealistic”. Speaking at the G20 summit, where pressure is mounting on Russia to end the conflict, he says “all problems are with the Ukrainian side, which is categorically refusing negotiations and putting forward conditions that are obviously unrealistic”. Lavrov says he made this position clear during a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Speaking to the G20 summit in Bali, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is “convinced now is the time when Russia’s destructive war must, and can, be stopped”. He also suggests that an “all for all” prisoner swap with Russia is the “only realistic model”.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo tells G20 members to “end the war”, in an apparent reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as he opens the leaders’ summit in Bali.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron calls for Paris and Beijing to unite against the war in Ukraine as he begins a meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with China’s Xi Jinping as the leaders began talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday. IMAGES
Kherson (Ukraine) (AFP) – Just days after Ukrainian forces entered the city, President Volodymyr Zelensky pays a surprise visit to Kherson, where he sings the national anthem and praises his country’s people and services. On Friday, Russia withdrew around 30,000 troops from the southern Kherson region.
