Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid’s captain Marcelo leads the celebrations at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, a day after the club beat Liverpool 1-0 to win the Champions League title. Marcelo is leaving the club after 16 years of service when his contract ends on June 30.
Colombo (AFP) – Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan president’s home Sunday as the government offered an olive branch to demonstrators demanding his resignation. Anti-riot squads used water cannon followed by tear gas, as furious protesters pulled down barricades across a road leading to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence in Colombo. DURATION: 01:02
Recife (Brazil) (AFP) – Rescuers and volunteers search for survivors and clear debris in Jardim Monteverde, where a landslide killed 19 people. Dozens have so far died from the torrential rains that have been falling since Tuesday in the region of Recife in northeastern Brazil.
Bogota (AFP) – Images of Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro celebrating on stage after voters gave him a historic lead Sunday in the country’s first round of presidential elections that will culminate in a runoff in June. With more than 97 percent of votes counted, preliminary results showed 62-year-old Gustavo Petro, a former Bogota mayor, leading with 40.3 percent to 28 percent for Rodolfo Hernandez, a 77-year-old populist outsider in surprise second place.
Suva (Fiji) (AFP) – Images outside Fiji’s Grand Pacific Hotel where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to hold talks with leaders and top officials from ten Pacific Island states on Monday, part of a regional diplomatic blitz that has stirred deep Western concern.
Vienna (AFP) – Sixteen athletes from around the world send woodchips flying in an unusual competition, as they battle it out in Vienna for the Timbersports World Trophy.
Bogota (AFP) – Outgoing president Ivan Duque casts his vote as Colombians head to the polls in a first round of presidential elections with a leftist poised for victory for the first time ever, as voters clamor for “change.”
Kharkiv region (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes his first trip to the country’s war-torn east since the launch of Moscow’s invasion, as Russian forces tighten their grip around key cities in the Donbas region. Zelensky’s office posted a video on Telegram of him wearing a bullet-proof vest and being shown destroyed buildings in Kharkiv and its surroundings, from where Russian forces have retreated in recent weeks.
Saint-Denis (France) (AFP) – Real Madrid stars express their delight after securing a 1-0 victory over Liverpool in the Champions League final in Paris to become kings of Europe for a record-extending 14th time.
Saint-Denis (France) (AFP) – Football fans line the streets of Paris as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in the Champions League final. Brazilian winger Vinicius turned in Fede Valverde’s low cross in the 59th minute at the Stade de France and Liverpool could not find an equaliser as Jurgen Klopp’s side lost to the Spanish giants in a Champions League final for the second time in five seasons.
Horenka (Ukraine) (AFP) – Deminers are racing against time to clear lake Horenka on the fringes of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv of unexploded shells and missiles before the start of the summer season to prevent any casualties.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine says it is doing “everything” to defend Donbas, where an intensifying Russian offensive is prompting Kyiv’s forces to consider a strategic retreat from some key areas to avoid being surrounded. In his daily address to Ukrainians, Zelensky said the Russians had “concentrated maximum artillery, maximum reserves” in the area.
