Sao Paulo (AFP) – Thousands march in Sao Paulo’s LGBTQ+ pride march under the slogan “Vote with pride for a politics that represents us” in reference to the upcoming October presidential elections. The march returned to Brazil’s economic capital and busiest city after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
Black Sea (AFP) – Russia’s Defence Ministry publishes images showing the launch of a high-precision long-range Kalibr missile somewhere in the Black Sea. In a daily briefing earlier, the Defence Ministry said the missile hit a command post of Ukrainian troops in the Dnipro region.
Zamora (Spain) (AFP) – Emergency services are battling several wildfires in nothern Spain as Europe sweltered over the weekend under a blistering June heatwave. The soaring temperatures were in line with scientists’ predictions that such phenomena will now strike earlier in the year due to global warming.
The Hague (AFP) – Heads tilted far back, Dutch revellers hold the raw, onion-coated fish by their tails and drop them down their open gullets. Welcome to the port of Scheveningen, where the Netherlands is marking the arrival of the season’s first catch of new herring.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky vows that his forces “will not give away the south to anyone” after his first visit to the southern frontline, as NATO’s chief warned the war in Ukraine could last “for years”.
The Hague (AFP) – Heads tilted far back, Dutch revellers hold the raw, onion-coated fish by their tails and drop them down their open gullets. Welcome to the port of Scheveningen, where the Netherlands is marking the arrival of the season’s first catch of new herring.
An Nabk (Syria) (AFP) – A Syrian desert monastery, that used to attract tens of thousands of worshippers, has reopened to visitors after years of war and isolation.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky hails Brussels’ support for Ukraine’s European Union bid a historic achievement, as his country’s eastern Donas region faced intense Russian shelling. Brussels has spearheaded a powerful show of European solidarity by backing Kyiv’s bid for EU candidate status, an endorsement that could add Ukraine to the list of countries vying for membership as early as next week.
Samawah (Iraq) (AFP) – Gazelles at an Iraqi wildlife reserve are dropping dead from hunger, making them the latest victims in a country where climate change is compounding hardships after years of war.
Mykolaiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the war-damaged southern city of Mykolaiv for the first time since the Russian invasion in a rare trip outside Kyiv.
Sylhet (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Monsoon storms in Bangladesh have killed dozens of people and unleashed devastating floods that have left millions of others stranded, according to officials.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – A group of volunteers in Kyiv are providing free vegan meals to soldiers during the war. “There are many vegans in the army and some of them want to stay vegan no matter what. We want to be their support as much as possible,” says volunteer Tamara Human, as she packages up food parcels destined for the frontline.
