Geneva (AFP) – The World Health Organization declares the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 16,000 people in 72 countries, to be a global health emergency — the highest alarm it can sound. He says that the “outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.”
Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden’s symptoms have “improved” and his key vital signs, including blood pressure, remain normal, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – President Volodymyr 32F92UQ between Ukraine and Russia aimed at unblocking Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports and alleviating a global food crisis.
Mokopane (South Africa) (AFP) – Pierre Bester is among the first specialist rhino veterinarians in South Africa. His work over the years, alongside the Rhino Orphanage in the Waterberg region of Limpopo, includes rehabilitating and rewilding many orphan rhinos.
Colombo (AFP) – Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early Friday and began tearing down tents of unarmed activists.
Washington (AFP) – ‘I don’t want to say the election’s over,’ former US president Donald Trump says in outtakes from his speech given after the January 6 riot. The footage was presented by a bipartisan panel of US lawmakers.
Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) – Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Mexican activist and mother, Luz Raquel Padilla, who died after being set on fire in Zapopan, Jalisco state. Her death has sparked protests, condemnation and demands for justice.
Kumamoto (Japan) (AFP) – When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country’s only baby hatch. For 15 years, the clinic has been the only place in Japan a child can be anonymously and safely abandoned.
Argelès-Gazost (France) (AFP) – Emmanuel Macron visits a village in southwestern France, a region where part of his family comes from and where the Tour de France is passing through. During the visit, the French President joined in with a local choir singing songs from the region.
Kati (Mali) (AFP) – Smoke rises and shots are heard at the garrison town of Kati as Mali announces it has repelled a suicide raid by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists on a base used by the ruling military, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Bamako.
San Diego (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people converge on San Diego for the first full-scale Comic-Con in three years, where new “Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” TV series will be unveiled.
Santiago (AFP) – Hundreds of BMX riders gather in Chile’s capital Santiago to celebrate World BMX Day. ‘For me, being a rider is being free,’ says Diego Galdames, Chile’s top BMX rider.
