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Salvadorans carry pineapples and coconuts to celebrate abundant harvest

Santa María Ostuma (AFP) – Men carry bundles of fruit on poles on their shoulders during the Santa Cruz festivities in Santa Maria Ostuma, 65 km east of San Salvador, to celebrate the year’s abundant harvest. The celebration dates back almost a century and takes place every 31 May.

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Nationalist Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election

Warschau (AFP) – Nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election, according to official results, in a major blow for the country’s pro-EU government. The 42-year-old, an admirer of US President Donald Trump, scored 50.9 percent of the vote in Sunday’s runoff. His 53-year-old rival Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s pro-EU mayor and an ally of the country’s centrist government, won 49.1 percent in the highly polarised NATO and EU nation. The results followed a tense evening, as both candidates had claimed victory when an exit poll indicated they were neck and neck.

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Divided Poles cast their votes in a tight presidential election

Halinów (Poland) (AFP) – Voters in Poland head to the polls for the second round of a tight presidential election, with major stakes for the country’s role in the EU and its stance on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. Rafal Trzaskowski, 53, the pro-EU mayor of Warsaw and ally of the centrist government, is up against Karol Nawrocki, 42, a nationalist historian backed by the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) of outgoing President Andrzej Duda.

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Muslim pilgrims in Mecca perform Tawaf ritual ahead of hajj

Mecca (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – Thousands of Muslim pilgrims perform Tawaf, the ritual of circling the Kaaba at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, ahead of this year’s hajj pilgrimage. Over a million people are expected to join the pilgrimage, despite the intense summer heat, which has proven deadly in the past.

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Thousands march in Rome against security clampdown law

Rome (AFP) – Thousands of protesters march through Rome to protest a new security law imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government, denouncing it as repressive and designed to please her electorate. The law increases sentences for certain acts like protesting and strengthens protections for police officers implicated in violence cases.

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People ‘torn to pieces’ after airstrikes on Gaza City

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – People run to take cover and smoke rises amid destruction, after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City. People were “torn to pieces”, says one witness, with “severed heads and severed hands”. Israel recently intensified its offensive in what it says is a renewed push to destroy Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose October 7, 2023 attack triggered the war and killed 1,218 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. More than 54,321 people, mostly civilians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

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‘It is everything’: India’s traditional mud wrestling thrives

Satara (India) (AFP) – Traditional Indian mud wrestling, known as “kushti” or “dangal”, has millennia-old roots but remains hugely popular. The sport, which blends traditional hand-to-hand combat with Persian martial arts, has acted as a training ground for several Indian athletes to win wrestling medals at the Olympic Games.

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Harvard president reaffirms support for foreign students at graduation ceremony

Cambridge (United States) (AFP) – President of Harvard University, Alan Garber, gets a huge cheer as he shows support for foreign students at the Ivy League institution’s graduation ceremony. A judge has temporarily halted the Trump Administration’s efforts to block America’s oldest university from hosting and enrolling foreign students, who make up 27 percent of its student body. US President Donald Trump has made Harvard the central target of his campaign against elite US universities, which he has also threatened with funding freezes over what he says is liberal bias and anti-Semitism.

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