Petare (Venezuela) (AFP) – Polling stations close in Venezuela’s presidential election after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party’s 25-year hold on power. IMAGES
Caracas (AFP) – Polling stations close in Venezuela’s presidential election after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party’s 25-year hold on power. IMAGES
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrives at Caracas polling station to cast her ballot, as the country votes between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent’s threat of a “bloodbath” if he loses. IMAGES
Paris (AFP) – The hot-air balloon-like cauldron, lit at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games by former athlete Marie-José Pérec and judoka Teddy Riner, remains accessible to the public until the end of the Games on August 11, in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. The flame functions electrically as light projects onto a cloud of water, within easy reach of the public during the day before rising 60 meters above the ground at nightfall.
Tokyo (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says on Sunday 28 July that there was “every indication” that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was behind a rocket strike in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 young people. “Every indication is that indeed the rocket was from Hezbollah. We stand by Israel’s right to defend its citizens from terrorist attacks,” Blinken told reporters in Japan.
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez casts his vote at a Caracas polling station, as the country votes between the continuity of President Nicolas Maduro or change, amid high tension after the incumbent threatened a “bloodbath” if he loses. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI366F7VW_EN, VIDI66C2R6_EN, VIDI36637TM_EN
Paris (AFP) – In an interview with AFP in Paris, US Olympic icon Allyson Felix says she believes Kamala Harris winning November’s US presidential election would be a “monumental” moment for the country. Felix has won 11 Olympic medals over the course of her career, and is now an advocate for maternal health in the US and around the world.
Cualedro (Spain) (AFP) – Every year, from May to September, Adriano Borrás and his team of shearers travel through the countryside of northern Spain and Portugal, shearing sheep. This crucial activity, vital for the sheep’s health yet increasingly rare in Spain, is performed to the rhythm of punk music, which they claim soothes the animals. Their nomadic lifestyle embodies the philosophy of these ‘punk shearers,’ who believe that ‘everything in the cities will collapse’.
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he would ensure the results of election, in which he is seeking a third six-year term amid claims of opposition harassment, were respected.
Caracas (AFP) – Images of Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez at a Caracas polling station, as the country votes between the continuity of President Nicolas Maduro or change, amid high tension after the incumbent threatened a “bloodbath” if he loses. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI366F7VW_EN
Versailles (France) (AFP) – The Chateau of Versailles is ready to host the 2024 Olympic Games’ equestrian and modern pentathlon events. In this western Parisian town, horses have long been omnipresent.
Karakuduk (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – In the middle of the Kazakh steppes, residents of the village of Karakuduk will not find any alcoholic drinks on shelves due to a prohibition movement growing in popularity across the Central Asian country. The village is one of the firsts to ban alcohol in the country with a long-standing alcoholic problem.
