Tolima (Colombia) (AFP) – Aerial images show the collapse of the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia which has left at least four people dead and another 30 seriously injured. The collapse occurred during a popular event at which members of the public face off with small bulls, according to officials.
Klais (Germany) (AFP) – Several dozen people protest against the G7, calling for climate protection, cycling in the Bavarian mountains on the second day of the summit held at Elmau Castle.
Gloucester (United States) (AFP) – Competitors run on a greasy pole and try to catch a flag during an annual competition in Gloucester, Massachusetts. “We’re so happy that over 1,000 days later, people are out and about…it’s better than Christmas,” says a resident as the St. Peter’s Fiesta and greasy pole tradition return to the coastal city after a three-year break due to the pandemic.
Lisbon (AFP) – “Today we face what I would call an ocean emergency,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres tells thousands of policymakers, experts and advocates at the opening plenary of the UN’s Ocean Conference in Lisbon.
Chonburi (Thailand) (AFP) – The riotous and muddy Thai buffalo races mark the beginning of the rice planting season in the country’s east. The event, with a festival-like atmosphere, take place for the first time after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – “All pilots, dispatchers, mechanics, and other people who ensure the launch of missiles on Ukraine must understand – we will find you all,” says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after Russian strikes hit a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person.
Petaluma (United States) (AFP) – California’s decades-old World’s Ugliest Dog Contest crowned Mr Happy Face as this year’s homeliest pooch.
New York (AFP) – Concerns over US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade dominate the minds of people celebrating Pride in New York. The city was hosting two marches, the official NYC Pride March, held for the first time in person since the pandemic, and the Queer Liberation March, created in 2019 by queer activists as a protest free of sponsors or corporate floats.
Tenerife (Spain) (AFP) – People in Tenerife celebrate carnival after it was postponed in February due to Covid-19.
Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – World leaders mock Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tough-man image at a G7 lunch in Germany, joking about whether they should strip down to shirtsleeves — or even less. “We’re going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display,” says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, referring to Putin’s infamous 2009 photo-op of himself riding shirtless on a horse.
Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – G7 and EU leaders and their partners are welcomed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his wife Britta Ernst before the start of the G7 summit. During his photo op with Olaf Scholz, Joe Biden says that the bombing of Kyiv in the morning was “barbarism”.
Elmau (Germany) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden tells German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that the West must stay united against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin had been hoping “that somehow NATO and the G7 would splinter,” Biden said. “But we haven’t and we’re not going to.”
