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Buenos Aires (AFP) – Thousands of people demonstrate in Buenos Aires demanding a universal living wage in crisis-ridden Argentina.

Lima (AFP) – Hundreds of supporters and opponents of Peru’s President Pedro Castillo protest near the Congress of the Republic in the capital Lima, as the president delivers a speech to mark his first year in office.

Jackson (United States) (AFP) – Homes, roads and cars are seen submerged under flood waters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River, after torrential rains caused massive flooding in eastern Kentucky, US. 

Washington (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen refuses to say the US is in a recession, but acknowledges the “real” pressure on families from inflation. “We simply haven’t seen anything like this since the 1970s,” Yellen says.

Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden calls on Congress to pass his Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, set to allocate $369 billion for clean energy and climate initiatives and $64 billion for state-funded healthcare.

Washington (AFP) – The United States denounces as “inexcusable” remarks by Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban who warned against creating “peoples of mixed race.”

Ramat Gan (Israel) (AFP) – Animals at an Israeli zoo beat the heat with popsicles. The zoo creatures enjoy fish, blood and fruit-flavoured ice treats as temperatures continue to rise.

Kabul (AFP) – Hundreds of internally displaced Afghans who had taken refuge in the capital head back to their homes in the country’s eastern provinces, almost a year after the end of the war that forced them to flee.

Vienna (AFP) – During a press conference in Vienna, Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban defends his weekend comments against creating “peoples of mixed-race”, saying they represented a “cultural, civilisational standpoint”. “It happens sometimes that I speak in a way that can be misunderstood… the position that I represent is a cultural, civilisational standpoint,” Orban tells a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer during a one-day visit to neighbouring Austria.

Jaén (Spain) (AFP) – In the scorching heat Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain. “There are no olives on these. Everything is dry,” the 68-year-old says. He and his son own a 100-hectare (250-acre) olive farm in the southern province of Jaen in sun-drenched Andalusia, a region which produces the bulk of the country’s olive oil. But a severe drought gripping much of Spain threatens to shrivel their harvest this year.

Hrensko (Czech Republic) (AFP) – Smoke billows from huge swathes of land in Hřensko, a municipality in the Czech Republic on the northern border with Germany. Fires have broken out across the Bohemian Switzerland National Park after record temperatures for the region were broken earlier in the week. The Czech fire rescue service tweeted “we still have a lot of work to do”.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Kyiv, five couples are fervently waiting to get married in front of one of the city register offices. In Ukraine, would-be spouses have been taking advantage of a simplification in the red tape around marriage that allows them to wed on the spot, rather than having to register first and come back after a long wait.