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Dakar (AFP) – Supporters of the main Senegalese opponent, Ousmane Sonko, are gathered to demonstrate against the rejection of their list in the upcoming legislative elections. The coalition of Ousmane Sonko, Yewwi Askan Wi, had announced this rally against the power before the decision of the Constitutional Council to confirm the rejection of the list on which he and other opposition figures appear for the general elections on 31 July. This invalidation amounts to removing Ousmane Sonko from the race.

Abuja (AFP) – Former-Lagos governor Bola Tinubu waves the flag of Nigeria’s ruling party All Progressive Congress (APC) after being announced as its candidate for the 2023 election to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

Abuja (AFP) – Former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu is announced the winner of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) primary as its candidate for the 2023 presidential election to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Pizza chefs participate in 10th Argentine Pizza Championship in Buenos Aires, making giant pizza bases and performing gravity defying pizza tricks in the freestyle category.

Palencia (Spain) (AFP) – Authorities in the Spanish region of Castilla y León are trying to find a brown bear and her cub who were separated after a male bear brutally attacked the cub, which the mother managed to save. An amateur videographer managed to capture the fight on camera.

Madrid (AFP) – TO COMPLETE 32C44FR Luka Modric says he is “proud” to be staying at Real Madrid after renewing his contract until the end of next season. “In my head the only option was to stay,” the Croatia midfielder explains, adding, “Real Madrid is the best club in the world.”

Caribbean sea (AFP) – Colombia’s army and government share unprecedented images of the legendary San Jose galleon shipwreck, hidden underwater for three centuries and believed to have been carrying riches worth billions of dollars in today’s money.

Huehuetán (Mexico) (AFP) – Several thousand undocumented migrants continue their journey through southern Mexico with the intention of demanding a humanitarian visa from the Mexican government to allow them legal passage to the US border.

Puerto Iguazú (Argentina) (AFP) – The Iguazu Falls on the Argentina-Brazil border, considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world, are due to reopen in full on Wednesday on their Argentine side, after a partial closure for safety reasons due to heavy rain and exceptionally high flow of water.

Bariloche (Argentina) (AFP) – Rescue operations are underway after a mudslide covered part of a hotel in the Argentine city of San Carlos de Bariloche, leaving one dead, three injured and two missing.

Samut Songkhram (Thailand) (AFP) – Six times a day at the Mae Klong Railway Market in Thailand, local customers and foreign tourists scramble into nooks and crannies while vendors calmly move their woven baskets of goods off the tracks and close their umbrellas.

Washington (AFP) – Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey delivers an appeal for “gun responsibility” from the White House podium, in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde.