Miguel Ángel Pérez, the Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta, put the death toll from last week’s mass crossing at at least 72 on Sunday, while the enclave’s leader Juan Jesús Vivas told El País that the city morgue had received 88 bodies, a figure that also covers crossing attempts over the previous two weeks.
More than 48,000 of the 50,000 to 60,000 people who crossed into Ceuta on Thursday and Friday had walked back into Morocco within 48 hours.
A suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded 22 outside a police station in Kabal, in Pakistan’s Swat valley, on Sunday evening.
Two chartered Bell helicopters collided while dropping water on a wildfire at Psatha, west of Athens, on Sunday, and Greece’s fire service said both crew of the aircraft that exploded and fell in flames were killed, while the two aboard the other were rescued.
The Korea Meteorological Administration recorded 42.5 degrees Celsius at Yangsan in the southeast at 1.26pm Sunday, the highest temperature measured in South Korea since national records began more than a century ago.
Manar Ghanem of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority’s forecasting and early warning center said the heatwave over Egypt should break on Wednesday and Thursday.
The South African Weather Service forecast fine and cool conditions over most of the country for Monday, with morning frost in places over Gauteng and the Mpumalanga Highveld, fog along the Northern Cape coast, and isolated light showers on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast in the afternoon and issued no warnings or advisories.
Residents of Suakin and Gebeit in Sudan’s Red Sea state blocked stretches of the Port Sudan–Khartoum highway on Friday and again on Saturday over daily blackouts that protesters said run up to 12 hours.
Cuba’s Unión Eléctrica said it restored the western section of the national grid at 1.10am Sunday.
[Source: Prensa Latina (Spanish)]
A shallow earthquake near San Felipe in Yaracuy state was reported at a preliminary magnitude 4.9 at 11.25pm Saturday.
[Source: El Universo (Spanish)]
Reuters reported, citing two unnamed Japanese government officials, that Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama will announce that Tokyo and Washington acted jointly in the currency market to halt the yen’s slide to its weakest level against the dollar since 1986.
A man fishing on the shore of Lake Shikotsu at Morappu in Chitose, Hokkaido, saw a bear roughly a meter long several hundred meters away at about 10am Saturday, left the spot quietly and reported it to police once he was home. The city’s own log records it as the 31st brown bear sighting in Chitose this fiscal year.
Additional sources:
Ceuta death toll: Euronews and ABC News and El País (Spanish)
Ceuta aftermath and Vox: AP and France 24 and NPR
Greece helicopter collision: RTÉ and Proto Thema and PBS News
Sudan blackout protests: Sudan Tribune and Assayha
Venezuela aftershock and the June 24 doublet: VolcanoDiscovery and US Geological Survey and OCHA and Alertas24 (Spanish)
Japan–US action on the yen: Reuters and CNBC and Bloomberg
Chitose bear sightings: Chitose City (Japanese) and FNN (Japanese)
