✈️ #Ryanair is being accused of #discrimination after it required #SouthAfricans 🇿🇦 flying to the UK to fill out a questionnaire in #Afrikaans to prove their nationality. Even though Afrikaans is an official language in #SouthAfrica, only 12% of the population speak it. And furthermore, it has long been identified with apartheid, the policy of racial and ethnic separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1991.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Street fighting is continuing to rage for control of #Severodonetsk on Tuesday, with the city's mayor saying the situation was changing "every hour". Ukrainian troops are outnumbered by "stronger" Russian forces there, said President Volodymyr #Zelensky on Monday, a day before he visited troops on the front lines in #Donbas. Ukraine captured parts of Severodonetsk over the weekend, but Russian forces are likely to continue to occupy the city’s eastern districts, according to British defence intelligence. 📸 Reuters #news #warinukraine

🇬🇧 #BorisJohnson faced the greatest threat to his premiership yet after necessary 54 Tory MPs triggered the parliamentary party’s #vote of no confidence on Monday. The vote came after the long-simmering #Partygate scandal saw Platinum Jubilee crowds jeer him over the weekend. 211 voted in Johnson’s favor and 148 against in Monday's vote – but experts say the vote itself likely signaled a looming departure from Downing Street. More analysis on www.france24.com/en #westminster #politics #scandal

🇬🇧👑 Queen #ElizabethII's Platinum Jubilee celebrations came to a close over the weekend. Despite being absent for many of the events over the four days of festivities, the 96-year-old monarch made an appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony to greet crowds following a parade on Sunday afternoon. She also made a surprise appearance in a short film with the British icon, joining Paddington Bear for tea. Pop concerts and a corgi procession marked the weekend as people across the Commonwealth celebrated 70 years of the Queen's reign. 📸 Reuters/Leon Neal/Chris Jackson/Henry Nicholls/Frank Augstein/Pool/Hannah McKay/Samir Hussein/Alberto Pezzali/Buckingham Palace/Studio Canal/BBC Studios/Heyday Films/PA Wire #news #platinumjubilee #queen #queenelizabeth

These are rare South African #whitelions 🦁⚪ The three of them have found a new home in the Caricuao Zoo in Venezuela's capital Caracas 🇻🇪 The two-year-old #lions travelled all the way from the #CzechRepublic 🇨🇿 to get to the #zoo. Authorities hope they will encourage more visitors to the vast open-air facility. 📸 AP Photo/Matias Delacroix #lion #animals #animal

♻️ Garbage #recyclers have taken to the streets in front of #CocaCola's offices in Buenos Aires, #Argentina 🇦🇷 to demand a #recycling law that includes the giant. The protester brought a mountain of empty #bottles with them as they demanded that responsibility is also put on the producer. "We are the only ones who put our hands in the garbage to recover what this company puts into the environment", says one recycler. 📸 REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian #climatecrisis #cola #climatechange

🐂 The world's largest #bullring in #MexicoCity's #PlazadeToros won't be hosting #bullfighting for a while after a judge ordered a temporary suspension last week. The move came after activists filed a lawsuit against the centuries-old practice. It is the first time that a court has ordered such a suspension, but animal-rights protesters are calling for a permanent ban. #Mexico 🇲🇽 is a bastion of bullfighting but the tradition -- and the 50,000-capacity Plaza de Toros -- face an uncertain future. 📸 REUTERS/Edgard Garrido #news

If we say the word "turkey", what comes to mind? Turkey 🇹🇷 or turkey 🦃? To avoid such confusion in the future, the country of #Turkey has formally requested to change its name to #Türkiye. This request was made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to the United Nations as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird by the same name and some associated negative connotations. #news #namechange

Alexander Zverev was forced to retire from his French Open semi-final against Rafael Nadal after picking up a horrific injury: the German player twisted his right ankle and needed a wheelchair to exit the court, screaming in pain. After being treated by the medics, Zverev then returned to the court on crutches and saluted the crowd, which gave him a standing ovation. The French Open final will see Rafael Nadal facing either Marin Cilic or Casper Ruud. #Tennis #Zverev #FrenchOpen #rolandgarros #rolandgarros2022 #alexanderzverev #injury #German #Nadal #semifinals #game

🌍🌾 #AfricanUnion Head and Senegalese President Macky Sall met with Russian President Vladimir #Putin on Friday to discuss the global growing #foodcrisis. Sall urged #Putin to take into account the suffering in #African countries from #foodshortages caused by the conflict in #Ukraine. "Our countries... are victims of this crisis on an economic level," he said. In his remarks in front of reporters, #Putin did not mention grain supplies but said Russia was "always on Africa's side" and was now keen to ramp up cooperation. The food crisis is affecting dozens of millions of people in the Horn of #Africa region. 📸 via REUTERS #news #vladimirputin #food #warinukraine

🇺🇦 #Ukraine is maring 100 days since #Moscow's 🇷🇺 invasion on Friday with Russian forces hammering the #Donbas in their push to capture the country's east. Britain's defence ministry said that on the 100th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that Moscow failed to achieve its initial objectives to seize Kyiv and Ukrainian centres of government but was achieving tactical success in the #Donbas. While the advance has been much slower than Moscow expected, Russian forces have expanded control beyond the 43,000 square kilometres, which make up 20% of Ukrainian territory. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee, with Ukraine’s east now bearing the brunt of Russia’s assault, which President #Zelensky said was killing up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers every day. #warinukraine #putin

👑🇬🇧 Britain ended the first of four days of celebration of #QueenElizabeth with the lighting of the Principal #PlatinumJubilee #Beacon at #WindsorCastle, while Britons hailed their beloved monarch. The celebrations will continue with a National Service of Thanksgiving at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral to pay tribute to the sovereign’s 70 years on the throne. But the #queen, who has been forced to cancel a series of engagements recently because of “episodic mobility problems”, will be absent, pulling out late on Thursday and slightly taking the sheen off the day’s party atmosphere. #queenelizabeth #jubilee #ukroyals #royalfamily