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For more than 30 years, plastic phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield have been washing up on French beaches.
The mystery is now solved: a shipping container which washed up during a storm in the 1980s was found in a hidden sea cave
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Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered "Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard" at a member of a far-right group
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Mexicans who served in US Army with the promise of becoming citizens but ended up being deported, protest on Memorial Day in Ciudad Juarez
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We are devastated to learn of the death of AFP video journalist Arman Soldin in eastern Ukraine today.
All of our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.
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A huge cardboard skeleton sits in a street in the Tlahuac neighbourhood of Mexico City ahead of the Day of the Dead festival
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This is what it looks like when you get mobbed by celebrating Croatian players
#WorldCup
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VIDEO: 🇺🇸 A cyclist who was fired from her job after raising her middle finger to US President Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.
#JuliBriskman
, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photo, beat the Republican incumbent in Loudoun County
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The "blood moon" eclipse beside a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Hera in Athens
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Left-wing parliamentarians dress in the colours of the rainbow as Andrzej Duda is sworn in for a second term as president at the Polish parliament in Warsaw
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China jails citizen journalist Zhang Zhan for 4 years for reporting on the virus in Wuhan. She has been on a hunger strike since June and is reportedly force-fed via a nasal tube.
China has punished 8 virus whistleblowers so far.
📸Her lawyer Zhang Keke talks to the press
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From dream to nightmare: Murtaza Ahmadi moved the world with his love for footballer Lionel Messi in 2016 - now the seven-year-old boy is living a nightmare as one of thousands of Afghans displaced by war
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Voicing joy and excitement from behind face masks, tens of thousands of people flee Wuhan after a 76-day travel ban is lifted on the Chinese city where the
#coronavirus
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After Bollywood star's suicide, a TV 'witch hunt'.
India has millions of COVID-19 cases and a border stand-off with China, but the story dominating the news is how a Bollywood actress supposedly drove her ex-boyfriend to suicide with pot and black magic
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted firms including Nestle for carrying on business as usual with Russia "even though our children are dying", in a live address to a Swiss rally
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Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the world record for the highest wave ever surfed, during a session in Nazare, Portugal, according to the World Surf League
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Pakistan's former prime minister
#ImranKhan
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Jimin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has made history as the first South Korean solo artist to land the number one spot on the top US songs chart, Billboard announced Monday.
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VIDEO: Hundreds of people gather outside ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan's house, supposedly to prevent police from reaching the ex-cricket star after he was reported under the anti-terrorism act for criticising a magistrate.
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Ukraine army retakes Kharkiv, expelling Russian troops: governor
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VIDEO: Rare video captured by divers shows a 2.5-metre giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan's west coast. Giant squid are known to live in the waters around the country and occasionally wash ashore, but seeing them alive in the wild remains relatively rare.
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In a dramatic about-turn, the new US administration on Thursday thanked the World Health Organization (
#WHO
) for leading the global coronavirus pandemic response and vowed to remain a member state
#AnthonyFauci
#Fauci
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VIDEO: 🇨🇳 Crowds packed out a water park over the weekend in the central Chinese city of
#Wuhan
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#coronavirus
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A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral after it was devastated by a fire will soon be opened and its secrets revealed, French archaeologists said
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North Korean state media KCNA releases photos of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on Mount Paektu
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Wuhan wave.
People watch a performance as they cool off in a swimming pool in Wuhan, China
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Rapid rescue.
@AFP
photographers Oli Scarff and Peter Kohalmi capture the dramatic rescue of USA's Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool when she fainted during the women's solo free artistic swimming finals at the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships
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Leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric has become Chile's youngest-ever president at age 35, on promises of installing a "welfare state" in one of the world's most unequal countries by
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Ukrainian authorities say safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is now secured, after a fire broke out when the station came under fire from invading Russian forces.
"The director of the plant said that the nuclear safety is now guaranteed": Oleksandr Starukh
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Thousands in Russia protest Ukraine war, hundreds detained.
Up to 1,000 people gathered in the former imperial capital Saint Petersburg, where many were detained by masked police officers
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A decade after McDonald's shut down in Iceland, thousands of online users follow the live slow decay of the last order -- a seemingly indestructible burger with fries protected in a glass case in Snotra House, a hostel in Thykkvibaer
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Greenpeace protesters unfold a banner reading "Resist" from a crane behind the White House
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VIDEO: Wax statue of Vladimir Putin removed from Paris museum.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompts director of the Grevin Museum in Paris to remove the statue.
"We have never represented dictators like Hitler in the Grevin Museum, we don't want to represent Putin today"
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Break in protocol -- Pope Francis stops the popemobile to attend to a policewoman who was thrown off her horse as he passed behind her in Iquique, Chile
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Free the whales: Dozens of orcas and beluga whales captured for sale to oceanariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight
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VIDEO: Almost a year after conservationists sent out a plea to help save a species of Bolivian aquatic frog by finding a mate for Romeo, the last remaining member, his very own Juliet has been tracked down deep inside a forest
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#UPDATE
A US journalist was shot dead and another wounded on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline northwest suburb of Kyiv, medics and witnesses told AFP
US journalist shot dead by Russian forces near Kyiv
Brett Renaud was 51-years-old.
www.thejournal.ie
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Driven by anger at the authorities' response to massive protests - and guilt that the burden of defending democracy has fallen on the city's youth - a white collar rebellion is rippling out across Hong Kong
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Disgraced former K-pop star Seungri is convicted of arranging prostitution and other charges stemming from a sex and drugs scandal and jailed for three years by a military court, reports say.
The singer from popular boyband BIGBANG was found guilty on all nine counts against him
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Police precinct set on fire on the third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man
Full story:
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Russian tourists visiting Finland greeted with Ukrainian anthem
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DNA tests show 'Cheddar Man', the first modern Briton, had dark skin and blue eyes
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VIDEO: The image of Murtaza Ahmadi sporting a plastic Messi jersey went viral in 2016 and later that year the Afghan boy met his idol in Qatar. In November he had to flee his home as it came under Taliban attack
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One million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia's invasion, UN refugee agency says.
"In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweets
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Russian airborne troops have landed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army says.
"Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv... and attacked a local hospital. There is an ongoing fight"
📸 Kharkiv on March 1 following shelling from Russian forces
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VIDEO: A few hundred office workers in Hong Kong's business district gather during lunch time to show solidarity towards the pro-democracy movement
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The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned
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"Mic Drop" debuted at number 28, driven by a particularly strong showing in downloads, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week
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VIDEO: Mass celebrations in Chile as pro-change camp holds big lead in vote.
Thousands flock to Santiago's emblematic Plaza Italia as the pro-change camp holds a big lead in the historic referendum to rewrite Chile's dictatorship-era constitution, according to partial results
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Volunteers battle to remove oil from Paiva beach, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
Oil has washed up on more than 130 beaches along a 2,000km stretch of northern Brazil's Atlantic coastline. The source of the spill remains a mystery
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A woman on a bike gestures as the motorcade with US President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia
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VIDEO: A convoy of 29 taxis and around 60 drivers arrives back in Madrid after driving to Warsaw in Poland and returning to Spain with Ukrainians displaced by the war
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Kim Jong Un rides white horse in new North Korea propaganda video
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VIDEO: Riot police arrest pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong's Central district
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VIDEO: 🇮🇹 Italians are beating the social isolation imposed by the country's coronavirus lock down by taking to their windows and singing in unison (🔊Turn on the sound)
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 It can survive bullets, explosions and chemical weapons, but 'The Beast' -- Donald Trump's famed armoured limousine was brought to a standstill by Larry the Downing Street cat
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Lionel Messi says 'I do' to childhood sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo in his Argentine hometown Rosario
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VIDEO: 🇧🇷 Thousands of people in Brazil's most populous city
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#Bolsonaro
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