US President Joe Biden pledges to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings in Kabul that killed 12 American troops. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden says from the White House.
Houston (AFP) – Having fled the Taliban, Mohammad is ready to start a new life in Texas. But the former US government translator’s heart aches when he thinks about his relatives left behind in Afghanistan. “Brothers, mother, sister — always we think about them.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemns the “heinous” attack outside Kabul airport on people seeking evacuation from Afghanistan that left at least six dead.
Les Cayes (Haiti) (AFP) – In a makeshift camp that serves as a refuge for many women since Haiti’s earthquake, survivors say they fear for their safety and children. “We suffer, we have no access to toilets. We can’t pee. Everyone is looking at you,” says Vesta Guerrier.
Dublin (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron says the French ambassador to Afghanistan will continue his mission but from Paris.
Cagliari (Italy) (AFP) – A baby dolphin is rescued by coast guards on the Italian island of Sardinia after getting trapped in a nylon net.
Tumaco (Colombia) (AFP) – The Colombian Navy has intercepted 1.2 tonnes of cocaine bound to Central America on a Go-Fast boat in the Pacific Ocean on Narino Province.
Chester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The endangered Lake Titicaca frog is making its debut at Chester Zoo, in the north of England. It’s the world’s largest aquatic frog, and takes its name from the lake where it lives on the border of Bolivia and Peru – but thanks to its unusual look means the animal is better known by its nickname ‘scrotum’ frog.
London (AFP) – Tortoise callipers and camel scales are put to good use at ZSL London Zoo, which is holding its annual animal weigh-in. While keepers put on a show for the cameras, it is important that the zoo keeps up-to-date size and weight information on its animals to compare them with animals in the wild and in other zoos, as well as to have an indication of which animals are pregnant.
Garden Grove (United States) (AFP) – Vietnamese American refugee Phat Bui, who fled Saigon in 1975 following the US evacuation and the city’s fall, says that watching the chaotic scenes out of Kabul “brings back a lot of memories.”
Brasília (AFP) – Thousands of indigenous people march in Brazil’s capital to protest far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies and an initiative that could take away their ancestral lands.
Topaga, Boyaca Department (Colombia) (AFP) – Emergency workers, ambulances and mourning relatives of victims are seen near the site of an explosion in an illegal coal mine that left 12 people dead in the Colombian department of Boyaca.
