Vienna (AFP) – Former governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger opens the Austrian World Summit, an environmental summit held in Vienna. Schwarzenegger, who is also the founder of the conference, told attendees that time was running out to save the world.
Straddle a wooden stick decorated with a pretend, but laboriously decorated, horse’s head and off you go as if you were riding a real horse. Hobby horsing is an unofficial sport but one that is taken very seriously by thousands of enthusiasts around the world.
Acapulco (Mexico) (AFP) – Mexican army infantry soldiers aboard military trucks patrol the streets in the tourist port city of Acapulco, in Mexico’s Guerrero state, during a security operation in the face of a growing wave of violence. IMAGES
San Bernardo (Chile) (AFP) – A crane lifts one of the two trains that collided in the commune of San Bernardo on the outskirts of Chile’s capital, as railway company reported that two people were killed and several injured. IMAGES
Karbala (Iraq) (AFP) – Fishermen in central Iraq have seen the quantity and variety of fish in Karbala’s Razzaza Lake dwindle in recent years. Since Saddam Hussein’s embankment system draining southern marshes, severe droughts and shortages of water have hit the once plentiful lake.
Baños (Ecuador) (AFP) – A muddy patch of land is the only thing thing left of where Danilo Paredes’s house once stood. A landslide devastated his neighborhood in Banos, in a tourist region of southern Ecuador, leaving at least seven people dead, including six members of his family.
(AFP) – Two beluga whales from an aquarium in Kharkiv, under frequent Russian shelling, are transferred to a centre in Spain’s Valencia. 15-year-old male Plombir and 14-year-old Miranda were driven from Kharkiv to Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, before being loaded onto a plane in a multi-day, high-risk operation.
San Bernardo (Chile) (AFP) – A railway collision in San Bernardo has killed two people and injured several others. The accident between a freight train and a test train occured just south of Chile’s capital Santiago.
Kallakurichi (India) (AFP) – A batch of toxic illegal alcohol has killed at least 34 people in India, with more than 100 others rushed to hospital, according to state officials. Hundreds die every year in the country from cheap alcohol made in backstreet distilleries.
Abha (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – Saudi taekwondo standout Donia Abu Taleb has become the first Saudi woman to qualify for the Olympics and is dreaming of bringing home the Gulf kingdom’s first gold medal when she competes in Paris. “This is a challenge for me, as the first Saudi woman to qualify for the Olympics… I’ve reached the point where I must achieve something,” she says.
Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Torrential rains in Bangladesh trigger landslides, burying alive at least nine people – eight of them Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.
Grand Island (United States) (AFP) – Ukrainians, Afghans, and Mexicans are moving to Nebraska, a conservative bastion in the central United States — and despite Republicans’ heated political rhetoric, local businesses are welcoming the new arrivals with open arms. For President Joe Biden, the issue of immigration has become a political balancing act ahead of the November presidential election.
