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Lima (AFP) – Peru’s new conservative president, Keiko Fujimori, leaves Congress in Lima after being sworn in, vowing to tackle the wave of crime sweeping the Andean nation. The inauguration ceremony was attended by several Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei, Chile’s Jose Antonio Kast, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, Uruguay’s Yamandu Orsi and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz. Fujimori is now set to head to the Government Palace. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Peru’s President-elect Keiko Fujimori arrives at the Congress to attend to her inauguration. Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by fewer than 50,000 votes, after losing the past three runoffs. The 51-year-old came head-to-head with leftist Roberto Sanchez, with her campaign shadowed by the divisive legacy of her father Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru in the 1990s. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Keiko Fujimori is sworn in as Peru’s ninth president in a decade at an official ceremony in Lima. Fujimori’s hardline campaign tapped into Peru’s worst security crisis in decades, fueled by the spread of both local and foreign criminal gangs that oversee contract killings and extortion. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Foreign leaders arrive at the Peruvian Congress in Lima to attend the inauguration of President-elect Keiko Fujimori. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Peru’s President-elect Keiko Fujimori and heads of state from other countries, including Chile’s Jose Antonio Kast and Hondura’s Nasry Asfura, arrive at the Foreign Ministry in Lima ahead of the inauguration of the right-wing leader. IMAGES

Sivasagar (AFP) – Residents in Assam’s Sivasagar district brave floodwaters around submerged homes, as over 900,000 people in more than 1,800 villages have been affected by the incessant rains in the Indian state. Flood-related disasters are an annual occurrence across India during the monsoon months after the region’s long summers, with many parts of the country facing water scarcity and drought.

Paris (AFP) – “I’ve spent the last four or five years waiting for this day,” says Zinedine Zidane after his appointment as France coach is officially announced at the headquarters of the French Football Federation (FFF). “This is an immense joy,” he adds. He replaces Didier Deschamps, whose tenure began in 2012 and ended earlier this month after France finished fourth at the World Cup.

Madrid (AFP) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says firefighters are starting to see “light at the end of the tunnel” in their battle against some of the worst forest fires in the country’s history. “We are indeed turning the tide,” he tells reporters.

Folkestone (AFP) – Hundreds of dancers dressed in red gather on the Folkestone Harbour Arm in southeast England to recreate Kate Bush’s iconic “Wuthering Heights” choreography as part of the global ‘The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever 2026’. “It’s such a heartwarming thing to see all families together and to see the community all come together to do one celebration,” says student Iris Bunt.

La Guaira (Venezuela) (AFP) – One month after Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes, tributes are being paid to the victims. On June 24, two successive magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes hit northern Venezuela with the coastal state of La Guaira near the capital the worst affected.

Zunyi (China) (AFP) – Dressed in Red Army uniforms and waving prop weapons, scores of tourists storm a mound in southwestern China’s Loushan Pass as pyrotechnics light up the hillside in a reenactment of a historic battle. More than 1,000 people visited the mountainous battle site in Guizhou province over the weekend to relive the pivotal 1935 conflict between communist and nationalist forces — an experience that has become a hit on Chinese social media.

Zunyi (China) (AFP) – Dressed in Red Army uniforms and waving prop weapons, scores of tourists storm a mound in southwestern China’s Loushan Pass as pyrotechnics light up the hillside in a reenactment of a historic battle. More than 1,000 people visited the mountainous battle site in Guizhou province over the weekend to relive the pivotal 1935 conflict between communist and nationalist forces — an experience that has become a hit on Chinese social media.