Doha (AFP) – Speaking in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, US goalkeeper Matt Ryan says “I think it’s clear that we support human rights everywhere”. The host nation have come under increased scrutiny of its human rights record, as well as its treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQ community. The US squad are in Doha preparing for their World Cup opener against Wales on November 21.
Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) – NASA launches its most powerful rocket ever, Artemis I, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida. Onlookers cheered as the 32-storey craft blasted off to the moon on a test run for future flights which NASA hopes will, by the mid-2020s, carry the first woman and person of color to the moon as the company seeks to launch a new era of lunar exploration.
Warsaw (AFP) – Following the deaths of two Polish citizens when a missile landed in a village in the country’s southeast, president Andrzej Duda says that there is no indication that “this (the blast) qualifies as an attack on Poland”. Speaking during a National Security Council meeting, Duda goes on to say “it was most likely, unfortunately, an accident”.
Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) – Timelapse of NASA’s Artemis I mission’s rocket blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida and making its way towards the Moon.
Przewodów (Poland) (AFP) – “I haven’t slept all night” says Joanna Magus, a resident in the Polish village of Przewodow, where two men were killed in a deadly missile blast on Tuesday afternoon. The missile, as yet of unknown origin, struck a local grain drying facility in the village, which lies just six kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
Cape Canaveral (AFP) – NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency’s new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is “disturbed” by “barbaric activity of Russia in bombarding the Ukrainian people”, speaking to the press alongside Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on the last day of the G20 summit in Bali. SOUNDBITE
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they sit down for a work lunch on the last day of the G20 summit. Macron seeks to convince Modi, who has stopped short of condemning the Russian invasion in Ukraine, that the conflict is “not a good thing”.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – Indonesian president Joko Widodo leads world leaders through the Taman Hutan Mangrove jungle on the last day of the G20 summit in a special event where they plant saplings. Earlier in the day US President Joe Biden and leaders of key allies held “emergency” talks after a missile hit Polish territory near the border with Ukraine.
Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – President of EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, along with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leave the venue after “emergency” talks with US president Joe Biden and allies. The meeting is in response to a missile hitting Polish territory near the border with Ukraine.
Nairobi (AFP) – A baby elephant called Kindani tickles a Kenyan journalist working for local channel KBC with his trunk during a standup for a report at the Sheldrick Elephant Nurseryun in Nairobi.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Prisoners held by both sides in Russia’s war in Ukraine have been subjected to torture, says the head of the UN Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner.
