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The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is the national military organisation of the Philippines, headquartered at Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. Its primary mission is to uphold national sovereignty, defend the territory against foreign and domestic threats, and support the Constitution. The AFP engages in traditional defence, counter ...
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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. Full story: http://u.afp.com/wAJC | AFP News Agency
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Taliban disperse women's rights protesters with gunfire in Kabul. The Taliban fired shots into the air and pushed back protesters, @AFP journalists witnessed. Full story: http://u.afp.com/UFLo | AFP News Agency
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An Israeli air strike has killed AFP freelancer Abd Raouf Shaat and two other journalists in Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Shaat had contributed regularly to AFP as a photo and video journalist. The other journalists killed in the strike are Mohammed Salah Qashta and Anas Ghneim. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said that Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinian journalists in Gaza between December 20
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An Israeli air strike has killed AFP freelancer Abd Raouf Shaat and two other journalists in Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Shaat had contributed regularly to AFP as a photo and video journalist. The other journalists killed in the strike are Mohammed Salah Qashta and Anas Ghneim. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said that Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinian journalists in Gaza between December 20
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An Israeli air strike has killed AFP freelancer Abd Raouf Shaat and two other journalists in Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Shaat had contributed regularly to AFP as a photo and video journalist. The other journalists killed in the strike are Mohammed Salah Qashta and Anas Ghneim. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said that Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinian journalists in Gaza between December 20
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An Israeli air strike has killed AFP freelancer Abd Raouf Shaat and two other journalists in Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Shaat had contributed regularly to AFP as a photo and video journalist. The other journalists killed in the strike are Mohammed Salah Qashta and Anas Ghneim. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said that Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinian journalists in Gaza between December 20
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Scam centres are booming along the Myanmar-Thailand border, draining billions from victims. A highly publicised crackdown starting in February 2025 saw around 7,000 workers freed, with Thailand cutting the compounds’ internet. But an AFP investigation found that the scam centres are still in business and bigger than ever. The revelations have now prompted the Myanmar military to raid the compounds and Starlink to disable thousands of internet receivers used by scammers. 🎥 AFP 📷 2025 PLANET LAB
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Scam centres are booming along the Myanmar-Thailand border, draining billions from victims. A highly publicised crackdown starting in February 2025 saw around 7,000 workers freed, with Thailand cutting the compounds’ internet. But an AFP investigation found that the scam centres are still in business and bigger than ever. The revelations have now prompted the Myanmar military to raid the compounds and Starlink to disable thousands of internet receivers used by scammers. 🎥 AFP 📷 2025 PLANET LAB
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Israeli strikes hit the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building in Tehran as the presenter was live on TV lambasting Israel. Iran state TV later resumed live coverage, saying the voice of Iran will “not be silenced with a military operation”. #AFP 🎥 IRINN | AFP News Agency
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Israeli strikes hit the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building in Tehran as the presenter was live on TV lambasting Israel. Iran state TV later resumed live coverage, saying the voice of Iran will “not be silenced with a military operation”. #AFP 🎥 IRINN | AFP News Agency
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India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested Kashmir border on Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades. At least 38 deaths were reported, with Islamabad saying 26 civilians were killed by the Indian strikes and firing along the border, and New Delhi adding at least 12 dead from Pakistani shelling. The fighting came two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad fo
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India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested Kashmir border on Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades. At least 38 deaths were reported, with Islamabad saying 26 civilians were killed by the Indian strikes and firing along the border, and New Delhi adding at least 12 dead from Pakistani shelling. The fighting came two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad fo
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Fighting raged Thursday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples. Full story: https://u.afp.com/S7eK | AFP News Agency
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'Shaken to the core' The death toll from protests in Kenya has climbed to 13, an official from the main doctors' association told AFP Wednesday, after anti-tax hike rallies turned violent and police opened fire at demonstrators who ransacked parliament. Full story: http://u.afp.com/5hEL | AFP News Agency
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President Donald Trump hosted the largest US military parade in decades on his 79th birthday as protesters rallied across the country to accuse him of acting like a dictator. #AFP 🎥 Bastien INZAURRALDE Loic PIALAT Robyn BECK Annabelle GORDON AMERICA250 | AFP News Agency
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Looking back on 2025: from Donald Trump’s return to the White House to a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, wars in Ukraine and Sudan, a new pope, and Gen Z protests around the world. Watch the full video on the events that defined 2025 here: https://u.afp.com/backon2025 | AFP News Agency
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Protesters, police clash at protest over Milei labor reforms. Argentine workers hurled stones and bottle bombs at police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets as a protest against proposed labor reforms turned briefly violent. Full story: u.afp.com/S2vF | AFP News Agency
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The opioid crisis in America, born from the overprescription of opioid painkillers, cost the country more than 400,000 lives from 1999 to 2018. One of the main dangers is fentanyl -- a lethal synthetic opioid, 100 times more powerful than morphine -- and officials fight a seemingly endless battle to stop its flow. Read more: u.afp.com/JDFi | AFP News Agency
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Trump hails tariff, rare earth deal with Xi. The world's top two economies agree a deal to trim fentanyl-related tariffs and keep supplies of critical rare earths flowing. Full story: u.afp.com/Sepi | AFP News Agency
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Scam centres 'destroying' Cambodia's economy, PM tells AFP, pushing back on allegations of government connivance. The nation has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running a multibillion-dollar fraud industry that sees scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments. Full story: https://u.afp.com/S6Fi | AFP News Agency
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Thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza, with the World Food Programme reporting two possible deaths in the tumult as Israel and the UN traded blame over the deepening hunger crisis. The humanitarian situation in Gaza, where aid has finally begun to trickle in after a two-month blockade, is dire following 18 months of devastating war. Food security experts say starvation is looming for one in five people. AFP footage showed crowds of Palestinians br
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One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East, causing tsunamis up to four metres across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan. #AFP 🎥 Eugene Tanner, Sergei Lakomov, Atish Patel, NHK, James Martin/RemainInLight.com / ESN, KGMB, Laura Buchtel 📸 Geophysical Service of the Russian, Academy of Sciences 💻 Damien Duffau-Mongilardi, Clara Charles 🎵 Audio Network | AFP News Agency
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Dozens of protesters for and against US intervention in Venezuela gathered outside a federal court in New York, where ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared for his first court hearing. | AFP News Agency
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Al Jazeera said two of its correspondents, including a prominent reporter, and three cameramen were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted in a statement to targeting Anas al-Sharif, the reporter it labelled as a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas. The attack was the latest to see journalists targeted in the 22-month war in Gaza, with around 200 media workers killed over the course of the conflict, according to media watchdogs. #afp 🎥 Youssef Hassou
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Fearing the government will collapse and the country descend again into civil war, Afghanistan's Hazaras are starting to prepare for the worst. Comprising 10% to 20% of the country's 38-million population, Hazaras have long been persecuted for their largely Shiite faith. The choice is straightforward for some members of the community -- wait for the next deadly attack or join a growing militia in the mountains. Full story: http://u.afp.com/Uihb | AFP News Agency
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The Israeli military said it began new strikes on Tehran on the third day of a US-Israeli air campaign against Iran, a day after a hospital in the city was destroyed. 🎥AFP | AFP News Agency
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he had approved a draft bill guaranteeing the freedom of anti-corruption bodies, after nationwide protests over changes curbing the independence of the oversight organisations. The legislation, removing the independence of two key anti-corruption bodies, sparked the first major protests in Ukraine since it began fighting off the Russian invasion over three years ago. #AFP 🎥 Sergii Volskyi 💻 Clara Charles | AFP News Agency
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Nigeria received four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States on Sunday as the West African nation steps up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. The doses, which came on two planes, were received by officials from the UN children agency UNICEF on behalf of Nigeria at the airport in the capital Abuja, an AFP video reporter at the scene said. Read more: http://u.afp.com/URz5 | AFP News Agency
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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned against yet "another cycle of destruction" and retaliation following the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, which he said marked a "perilous turn" in the region. #AFP 🎥 UNTV | AFP News Agency
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Salvage workers raised a superyacht that sank off Italy during a pre-dawn storm last year, killing UK tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others. The luxury 56-metre"Bayesian" was struck by a storm on 19 August 2025 when it was anchored off Porticello, near Palermo in Sicily. The yacht, which was hit by something akin to a mini-tornado sank within minutes, killing Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and five others. #AFP 🎥 AFPTV 💻 Sebastian EVANS | AFP News Agency
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President Donald Trump ordered active-duty US Marines and 2,000 more National Guard troops into Los Angeles, vowing those protesting immigration arrests would be "hit harder" than ever. Trump's extraordinary mobilization of 700 full-time professional military personnel – and thousands of National Guard troops -- came on the fourth day of street protests triggered by dozens of immigration arrests in a city with huge foreign-born and Latino populations. California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed the
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Thousands of people in Vietnam have been evacuated from their homes after record rainfall of more than one metre in 24 hours submerged the central city of Hue, the environment ministry said. Measuring stations in the city of Hue recorded rainfall from one metre to 1.7 metres in a 24-hour period from 26 to 27 October, the ministry said in a statement. The previous 24-hour rain record was 0.99 metres, set in Hue in 1999. 🎥AFP 💻Maya Szaniecki | AFP News Agency
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