Lima (AFP) – “Ever since I was a child, I liked to skateboard,” says Willy Quispe, on the ramp he and his father built outside their house. They live at the top of hill of Villa Maria del Triunfo, a crowded and poor district on the southern outskirts of Lima, yet the neighbourhood’s residents make the best of what they have to follow their dreams.
Sylhet (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Millions are still stranded in Bangladesh following monsoon storms that killed dozens of people and unleashed devastating floods. “I have never seen this type of flood in my life,” says a man whose house is still submerged under water.
Tiwanaku (Bolivia) (AFP) – Dozens of Bolivians, including the president Luis Arce, rise their hands in the Tiwanaku pre-Inca religious complex to welcome the indigenous new year 5.530 saluting the sun and asking for prosper sow and harvest.
Dhaka (AFP) – In the half-century since a ruinous war of independence, Bangladesh has emerged as an often unheralded economic success story, overtaking its neighbour India in terms of per capita income.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has found hero status in Europe for resisting the Russian invasion, said that he was working the phones to drum up support for EU membership. Ministers on Tuesday were united in granting candidate status to Ukraine as well as Moldova before a formal greenlight later this week, said France’s Europe minister, Clement Beaune, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency. DURATION: 00:59
Quito (AFP) – Police used tear gas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of Ecuadorans taking part in a ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. Indigenous people comprise more than a million of Ecuador’s 17.7 million inhabitants and wield much political clout, but are disproportionately affected by rising inflation, unemployment and poverty exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. DURATION: 01:21
Stung Treng (Cambodia) (AFP) – A fisherman on the Mekong river in Cambodia netted the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists say – a 300 kilogram stingray. The previous record holder was a 293 kilogram Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005.
Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is “proud” of the action of his soldiers in Ukraine, where Moscow says it is conducting a military operation.
Luxembourg (AFP) – EU ministers back granting war-torn Ukraine “candidate status” to join the bloc, ahead of a summit expected to formally greenlight the move later this week, France’s Europe minister Clement Beaune says.
région de Kherson (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russia’s army says that it is now broadcasting Russian television across Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, which Moscow has occupied for months. 24 Russian TV channels are now accessible “free of charge” says a Russian defence communications officer.
Goheung (South Korea) (AFP) – South Korea successfully launches its first domestically-developed space rocket and puts a dummy satellite into orbit. It is the country’s second attempt after a launch in October failed.
Sado (Japan) (AFP) – Every morning for the last 14 years, Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out in his car before dawn to search for a bird brought back from extinction in Japan. The bird he is looking for is called “toki” in Japanese and its presence in the trees, skies and rice paddies of Tsuchiya’s home on Sado island is testament to a remarkable conservation programme.
