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@AFP "VIDEO: Oasis return reminds world of when Manchester ruled the airwaves The return of the prodigal Oasis brothers to Manchester -- on the second leg of their highly-anticipated reunion tour -- rekindles memories of a time in the 1990s when the city was a cultural epicentre"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 15:01:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements

"Rory McIlroy continued to battle driving woes during a topsy-turvy front nine of his second round at the British Open on Friday as 2023 champion Brian Harman moved into the lead at Royal Portrush. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 13:10:11 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Syrian presidency pledges force to halt violence in south"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 20:20:45 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.5K engagements

"VIDEO: Top Holy Land clerics visit Gaza City after deadly church strike Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem visit Gaza City after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church provoking international condemnation"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:40:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements

"Beverage giant Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its US production President Donald Trump announced Wednesday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 22:44:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.3K engagements

"Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty gritty of policy cigarettes and making models but his dream job as Japanese prime minister could go up in smoke if his coalition loses its majority in upper house elections on Sunday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 00:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.4K engagements

"VIDEO: Tajikistan's apricot farmers grapple with climate change. Tajik apricot farmer Uktam Kuziev is worried about the future now that climate change is threatening Central Asia's vital fruit harvest. This is one of the world's most exposed regions to the effects of climate change and its poor rural farming communities are particularly vulnerable"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 07:17:29 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements

"Scottie Scheffler said his first taste of winning the British Open was "special" after romping to his fourth major title by four shots at Royal Portrush"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 21:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.4K engagements

"VIDEO: How Bulgarian prisoners make cheese to earn an early release In southern Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains inmates from Smolyan prison produce various types of cheese and yoghurt. From tending to herds of sheep and cows to packaging the "Guerzovitsa" white cheese they are involved throughout the entire process"
@AFP on X 2025-07-11 13:01:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements

"VIDEO: UAE musical road plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Beethoven's Ninth Symphony can be heard as vehicles move along a 750-metre-long musical road stretch in the UAE emirate of Fujairah. When driving over the rumble strips on the tarmac the vibrations produce a melody"
@AFP on X 2025-07-10 15:40:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.6K engagements

"An aerial view of U.S. workers erecting a new phase of the US-Mexico border wall -- between Santa Teresa New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua -- on Wednesday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 00:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements

"VIDEO: China's 'new farmers' learn to livestream in rural revitalisation Chinese farmers are attending "livestreaming bootcamps" to learn how to connect directly with consumers via their mobile phones"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 11:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K engagements

"VIDEO: Lava escapes from a fissure during the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023. Broadcaster RUV reports that the nearby fishing village of Grindavik has been evacuated as well as the Blue Lagoon Iceland's famed tourist spot"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 01:37:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.6K engagements

"Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and other company board members settled a shareholder lawsuit on Thursday concerning decisions made in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 15:16:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements

"#BREAKING Netanyahu told Trump strike on Gaza church 'a mistake': White House"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 18:23:50 UTC 2.4M followers, 345.4K engagements

"The CEO of an American tech company resigned Saturday after a video of him embracing an alleged colleague at a Coldplay concert went viral and fueled relentless memes"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"An accord between France and New Caledonia creating a state within a state and hailed by President Emmanuel Macron as "historic" hit immediate fierce criticism in the Pacific territory on Sunday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-13 13:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements

"VIDEO: Druze families gather at the demarcation line in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights hoping to cross into Syrian territory after days of deadly sectarian violence in the Druze heartland province of Sweida in southern Syria"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 04:36:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"#UPDATE US President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with a chronic but benign vein condition after seeking medical examination for swollen legs the White House said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 19:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.6K engagements

"Young Barcelona star Lamine Yamal has inherited the club's number XX shirt previously worn by all-time great Lionel Messi"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 17:33:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Britain's royal swan counter feels 'positive' as Thames population holds steady The Swan Marker to Britain's King Charles III says he and his team are happy to have discovered no decrease in the swan population along the River Thames during their annual count known as swan upping following "a downward spiral" in recent years"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 14:41:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 9710 engagements

"A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight killing at least XX people authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 10:10:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.5K engagements

"#BREAKING Syrian leader vows accountability for those who 'abused our Druze people' slams Israel's 'wide-scale targeting' of civilian and government sites"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 02:19:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 24K engagements

"Lee Westwood said the fact Royal Portrush was the host course inspired him to enter qualifying for this week's British Open after firing an impressive first-round XX on Thursday ➡ #AFPSport #TheOpen"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 14:29:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 8904 engagements

"VIDEO: Aftermath of Israeli strikes on Syrian capital. Smoke rises from the damaged Syrian defence ministry headquarters in Damascus after Israeli strikes. The Israeli army launched a new round of strikes after warning Damascus against targeting the Druze community"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 00:33:50 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.5K engagements

"At least XX people have died and more than a dozen are missing after a tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay capsized on Saturday state media said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 15:15:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements

"Activists marching to Gaza say were stopped in Libya Egypt"
@AFP on X 2025-06-14 17:30:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 212.8K engagements

"Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on Friday a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 14:10:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.1K engagements

"Oliver Solberg continued to surprise in his first ever world rally championship event the 23-year-old Swede extending his lead in the Rally Estonia on Saturday. #AFPSports #RallyEstonia"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 21:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K engagements

"Gaza civil defence says Israeli fire kills XX aid seekers"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 04:42:04 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements

"AFP's Ulises Ruiz photographs the damage caused by flash flooding due to heavy rains in Zapopan Jalisco state Mexico. At least one minor died and dozens of homes and streets were flooded after heavy rains hit"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 02:46:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements

"Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Saturday pledged to rebuild Khartoum on his first visit to the capital ravaged by more than two years of war since assuming office in May"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 20:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.2K engagements

"Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: What was their relationship"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 07:51:21 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements

"Hundreds of television and radio stations across the United States risk seeing their resources evaporate after President Donald Trump prevailed in scrapping federal funding for public broadcasting. by @A_Bambino"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"The United States said early Saturday that it had negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Syria's government as new clashes erupted in Syria's Druze heartland following violence that prompted massive Israeli strikes"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 01:15:36 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Ukraine proposes fresh peace talks with Russia next week: Zelensky"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 17:15:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 56.9K engagements

"The WHO is calling on more countries to accept and treat patients from the Gaza Strip after the medical evacuation of a group of XX people -- mostly children -- to Jordan. More than 10000 others in Gaza still need medical evacuation the WHO chief says"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 19:29:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements

""Harry Potter" stars Emma Watson and Zoe Wanamaker have each been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding in separate incidents"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 14:30:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.6K engagements

"King Charles III hosted a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle as French President Emmanuel Macron began a formal visit to Britain. Attendees included UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and music icons Elton John and Mick Jagger 📸"
@AFP on X 2025-07-08 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 109K engagements

"Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro must wear an electronic monitoring device as he awaits a verdict in his trial on charges of plotting a coup a Supreme Court judge ruled Friday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 14:30:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.9K engagements

"UPDATE Alaska Airlines requests grounding of fleet citing 'IT outage'. The airline told AFP that it "experienced an IT outage that's impacting our operations" and it had "requested a temporary system-wide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air flights""
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 05:30:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements

"France has formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal leaving Paris with no permanent camps in either west or central Africa"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 11:10:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 23K engagements

"VIDEO: Rescue dogs help guard ancient Mexican pyramid Cachimba like many of the dogs living in Chichen Itza is one of the furry guardians of the majestic Mayan city in southeastern Mexico"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 15:02:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements

"Leo XIV has not long been pope yet the American head of the Catholic Church already receives XXX kilogrammes of letters a day faithfully sorted by the Italian post office"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 13:30:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"Tajik apricot farmer Uktam Kuziev is worried about the future now that climate change is threatening Central Asia's vital fruit harvest"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.7K engagements

"VIDEO: Dutch coastal village turns to tech to find lost fishermen In Urk a fishing village in the northern Netherlands advances in DNA technology and artificial intelligence are giving families of missing trawlermen long-awaited answers and the chance to mourn properly"
@AFP on X 2025-07-11 12:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has clung on even after an election debacle left his coalition without a majority in the upper house as painful new US tariffs loom"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 09:20:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.2K engagements

"As passengers wilted in a packed Madrid metro one traveller defied the summer heat by snapping open her handheld fan -- a quintessential Spanish accessory enjoying undimmed popularity"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 18:42:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K engagements

"VIDEO: Lava flows during volcanic eruption in Iceland Lava escapes from a fissure during the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 10:00:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements

"China has started building a mega-dam on a river running through Tibet and India with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony state media said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 11:50:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.5K engagements

"VIDEO: Downhill bike race takes over former violence hotspot in Caracas Cyclists speed down the alleys and staircases of one of Latin America's largest slums and Venezuela's biggest hoping to help the neighborhood shake off its reputation as a "dangerous" place"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 14:02:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K engagements

"VIDEO: Tourist coins pose 'Giant' problem at famous Northern Ireland site. Visitors are being urged to stop leaving coins in cracks at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland to prevent damage to the stones at the world-famous tourist site. Thousands of coins have been wedged into joints by tourists in the past decades "as a token of their love or luck" says Cliff Henry the site's Nature Engagement Officer"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 03:12:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.2K engagements

"VIDEO: Tajikistan's apricot farmers grapple with climate change Tajik apricot farmer Uktam Kuziev is worried about the future now that climate change is threatening Central Asia's vital fruit harvest"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 11:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 9635 engagements

"#BREAKING Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz to win first Wimbledon ##AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-13 18:25:56 UTC 2.4M followers, 43.1K engagements

"'A trap' - Asylum seekers arrested after attending US courts. In gloomy corridors outside a Manhattan courtroom masked agents target and arrest migrants attending mandatory hearings -- part of US President Donald Trump's escalating immigration crackdown"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 05:31:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.8K engagements

"Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration dragnet have reached home after their release from a maximum security Salvadoran jail as part of a prisoner swap with the United States"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:20:09 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.7K engagements

"VIDEO: Disappearing wild salmon spark concern among Norwegian anglers Norway's iconic wild salmon is in dramatic decline a victim of fish farming and climate change"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 15:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9794 engagements

"#BREAKING At least three people were killed and more than 1000 evacuated on Thursday after South Korea was hit by torrential rains an official says with one region pummelled by the most rainfall per hour since full records began"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 07:24:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 18K engagements

"#BREAKING Clashes between tribal and Druze factions at entrance to Syria's Sweida: AFP"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 17:59:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 36.6K engagements

"UPDATE Trump threatens to sue The Wall Street Journal after it published a story about an alleged letter written by him to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that featured a drawing of a naked woman"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 02:01:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.7K engagements

"VIDEO: Oasis return reminds world of when Manchester ruled the airwaves The return of the prodigal Oasis brothers to Manchester -- on the second leg of their highly-anticipated reunion tour -- rekindles memories of a time in the 1990s when the city was a cultural epicentre"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:20:30 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements

"VIDEO: Munich's river surf spot reopens after tragedy sparked closure. Surfers ride the waves on the Eisbach ("ice brook") in Munich's Englischer Garten park as it reopens with new guidelines after two months of closure following the drowning of a 33-year-old woman"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 03:12:39 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.5K engagements

"President Donald Trump attempted Friday to control the storm triggered by a bombshell report on his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ordering the Justice Department to seek the release of testimony from the prosecution of the late alleged sex-trafficker-to-the-famous"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 14:40:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Rising ocean threatens survival of Sierra Leone islands The inhabitants of Nyangai in the Turtle Islands have made virtually no contribution to global warming yet their survival is being threatened by rising Atlantic waters and coastal erosion #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-09 14:14:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements

"Three people died Friday at a police training facility in Los Angeles the US government said with media reports saying there had been an accidental explosion"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 19:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 157.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Japan's World Barber Classic tries to bring back business Hundreds of rowdy spectators many heavily tattooed roar at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing -- except the contestants were not athletes but barbers. The event was the World Barber Classic where a dozen contestants show off their hairdressing skills"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 08:31:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements

"#UPDATE Oleksandr Usyk cemented his status as the outstanding heavyweight of his generation with an emphatic fifth-round knockout of Daniel Dubois in their undisputed world title bout at London's Wembley Stadium. #AFPSports #UsykDubois2"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 22:28:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 39.6K engagements

"Lost German backpacker Carolina Wilga was found alive but "ravaged by mosquitoes" on Friday XX days after going missing in remote bushland in Western Australia"
@AFP on X 2025-07-11 13:50:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.4K engagements

"'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements

"#UPDATE South Korea typically experiences monsoon rains in July but three areas in the country's South Chungcheong province this week saw some of the heaviest hourly downpours on record official weather data showed"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 09:09:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 9835 engagements

"The Neuschwanstein castle in Germany's Bavaria -- perhaps best known for inspiring Walt Disney's fairy tale castles -- has been named a World Heritage site the UN cultural agency announced on Saturday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-12 20:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.4K engagements

"#UPDATE Alaska Airlines said on Monday it had resumed operations after hours earlier requesting its fleet be grounded because of an "IT outage" ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 13:47:55 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements

"#BREAKING Syrian security forces begin deploying in Sweida province: ministry"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 07:05:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 75.8K engagements

"Interim head coach Matt Sherratt said Wales's 31-22 win over Japan on Saturday "has got to be the start of something" after ending their record 18-game losing streak. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-12 11:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements

"VIDEO: 🎵 Unreleased Beyonce music stolen from car in Atlanta Computer drives containing unreleased music by US superstar Beyonce and plans related to her concerts were stolen last week in Atlanta police said with a suspect still at large"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 13:24:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"Belgium's Tomorrowland one of the world's largest electronic music festivals opened its doors as planned on Friday after the event was thrown into doubt by a fire that destroyed its main stage"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 17:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"The United States' destruction of a warehouse worth of emergency food that had spoiled has drawn outrage but lawmakers and aid workers say it is only one effect of President Donald Trump's abrupt slashing of foreign assistance"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 00:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 9338 engagements

"VIDEO: Munich's river surf spot reopens after tragedy sparked closure Surfers ride the wave on the Eisbach ("ice brook") in Munich's Englischer Garten park as it reopens with new guidelines after two months of closure following the drowning of a 33-year-old woman during a night-time winter surf"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 16:00:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 22.1K engagements

"#UPDATE Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province a monitor and AFP correspondents reported after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1100 people"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 19:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements

"Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has denounced US visa sanctions on judges in the coup case against former leader Jair Bolsonaro a right-wing Donald Trump ally"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 15:10:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K engagements

"Pope Leo XIV called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark the 56th anniversary of man's first moon landing"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 00:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"#UPDATE Over XXX people people have been killed in southern Syria's Sweida province a war monitor said on Thursday giving an updated toll after several days of clashes that triggered the deployment of government forces ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 14:05:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements

"An "unknown vehicle" drove into a crowd in Los Angeles in the early hours of Saturday injuring at least XX people the LA Fire Department said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 11:55:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"Manny Pacquiao's bid to make a fairytale return to boxing at the age of XX ended in disappointment as the Filipino icon was held to a draw by defending WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in Las Vegas ➡ #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 09:11:52 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"An Israeli strike on Gaza's only Catholic church killed two people on Thursday the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said as Israel said it "never targets" religious sites and regretted any harm to civilians"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 12:06:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.8K engagements

"Italy's Royal Palace of Caserta said Monday it was cancelling a weekend concert of pro-Kremlin maestro Valery Gergiev -- a close supporter of Vladimir Putin -- after an uproar from politicians and Kremlin critics"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 11:30:29 UTC 2.4M followers, 9604 engagements

"VIDEO: UK to lower voting age to XX in general elections The British government has said it would allow 16-year-olds to vote in general elections a landmark change giving the UK one of the lowest voting ages worldwide. #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 09:40:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.9K engagements

"Israel launched strikes on Tuesday against Syrian government forces in the Druze-majority region of Sweida saying it was acting to protect the religious minority ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 11:56:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.5K engagements

"Manchester United outcast Marcus Rashford is closing in on a move to Barcelona reports said on Saturday. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 15:50:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements

"VIDEO: In a rural Canadian town new risk of measles deepens vaccine tensions Tensions arise in the town of Aylmer over measles vaccine acceptance as Canada faces a spike of more than 3000 confirmed cases this year"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 10:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"VIDEO: Sirens ring out in Cyprus to mark the anniversary of the July XX 1974 coup backed by Greece's then-military junta against Archbishop Makarios the president of Cyprus. Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus in response to the coup against the government led by a military dictatorship in Athens. Cyprus has since been divided between the Greek-speaking UN-recognised republic in the south and the Turkish Cypriot north which unilaterally declared independence in 1983"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 03:45:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"It's 9:00 am and Marseille city contractors armed with long tongs were picking up syringes on the central Belsunce Square near the busy Old Port. The scene plays out daily illustrating the massive drug problem in France's second-biggest city"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 16:41:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"VIDEO: Downhill bike race takes over former violence hotspot in Caracas In Caracas' Petare home to 600000 people and long plagued by gang violence a downhill mountain bike race hopes initiatives like this will help the neighborhood shake off its reputation as a "dangerous" place"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 09:40:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 9980 engagements

"UPDATE A volcano erupted on Wednesday in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula weather authorities said the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023. Live video feeds showed lava spewing out of a fissure in the ground"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 07:16:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"Syria announced that its army had begun to withdraw from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday following a wave of Israeli strikes on the capital and a US call for government forces to leave the majority-Druze southern city"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 21:10:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"Ben Roberts-Smith investigation: Australian Federal Police argues corrupt agents will escape scrutiny if war crimes leak disclosed"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 20:03:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 3317 engagements

"VIDEO: Germany's Neuschwanstein castle becomes UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria perhaps best known for inspiring Walt Disney's fairytale castles has been named a World Heritage site according to the UN cultural agency. Neuschwanstein combines an idealised medieval exterior with architectural techniques considered cutting-edge at the time"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 03:13:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Neuschwanstein castle becomes UNESCO World Heritage Site The Neuschwanstein castle in Germany's Bavaria perhaps best known for inspiring Walt Disney's fairytale castles has been named a World Heritage site according to the UN cultural agency"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 13:40:32 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements

"British author Philippa Langley who helped unearth King Richard III's body from a carpark in 2012 has claimed that the two young princes who mysteriously disappeared from the Tower of London in the 15th century -- far from being killed -- actually survived"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 12:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 9921 engagements

"The EU has adopted a sweeping new package of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war looking to pile more pressure on the Kremlin by lowering a price cap for Moscow's oil exports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 12:30:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.9K engagements

"VIDEO: Syrian forces enter Druze city after deadly clashes Violent clashes have erupted in southern Syria's Druze-majority city of Sweida as government forces entered aiming to end clashes with Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly XXX people #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 10:27:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 14K engagements

"#UPDATE The United Nations migration agency said on Sunday that the number of people displaced by a week of sectarian violence in southern Syria's Druze heartland has risen to more than 128000 ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 12:31:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.2K engagements

"Dominant world number one Scottie Scheffler takes a four-shot lead into the final round of the British Open on Sunday leaving local hero Rory McIlroy praying for a miracle ➡ #AFPSports #TheOpen"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 09:58:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.5K engagements

"#BREAKING Alaska Airlines requests grounding of fleet citing 'IT outage'"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 05:05:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 35.6K engagements

"#BREAKING Secretary of State Marco Rubio says XX Americans freed in Venezuela in deal involving El Salvador"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 19:58:30 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.2K engagements

"VIDEO: Italian post office sorts hundreds of letters arriving for new pope every day. In a vast hangar near Rome's Fiumicino airport piles of letters addressed to Pope Leo XIV are being sorted sent by faithful all over the world to the head of the Catholic Church"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 08:20:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements

"A 20-year-old French prisoner who escaped last week in the luggage of his fellow inmate when he was released was arrested on Monday near the eastern city of Lyon prosecutors said ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 11:48:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.6K engagements

"Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria's southern city of Sweida on Saturday a monitor said after the government ordered a ceasefire following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 22:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements

"Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday a monitor and AFP correspondents reported after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that left more than 1000 people dead ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 10:45:09 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements

"Misbehaving monks: Sex scandal shakes Thai Buddhist faithful. Thai police this week arrested a woman accused of bedding at least XX monks in violation of their vows of celibacy before blackmailing them with thousands of secretly taken photos of their trysts"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 07:45:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.3K engagements

"Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's main Islamist party rallied on Saturday demanding an overhaul of the electoral system as the country gears up for polls next year"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 17:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"Two of the most senior Christian leaders in the Holy Land travelled to Gaza on Friday after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church provoking international condemnation"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 11:30:29 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements

"McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are free to continue racing each other as hard as always despite their crash at the Canadian Grand Prix this month world championship leader Piastri said Thursday #AFPsports 🏎"
@AFP on X 2025-06-26 17:03:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.9K engagements

"Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city the warring parties and a monitoring group said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 12:00:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Israel urges Syria to 'leave the Druze in Sweida alone' and withdraw its forces"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 07:36:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.4K engagements

"Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba clings on even after his coalition disastrously lost its upper house majority and as painful new US tariffs loom"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 06:36:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements

"'Princes in the tower' murder probe clears King Richard III. British author Philippa Langley who helped unearth Richard's body from a carpark in 2012 has claimed that the princes -- far from being killed -- actually survived"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 07:03:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements

"VIDEO: NYC subway station floods as heavy rain sweeps US northeast Heavy rain flooded a New York City subway station as a slow-moving storm prompted flash flood warnings across a wide swathe of the eastern US seaboard #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 11:26:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.9K engagements

"#BREAKING Man suspected in Los Angeles car ramming in custody: police"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 18:31:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.2K engagements

"Small Christian village in the West Bank blames Israeli settlers for a spate of recent attacks"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 01:45:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K engagements

"Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on Sunday with upper house elections that could end his premiership and see a right-wing populist party make inroads. by @KyokoH_"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 22:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.2K engagements

"The NHL's all-time top goal scorer Alexander Ovechkin -- who plays for the Washington Capitals -- called for Russian athletes to be allowed to compete for their country at top sporting events as he was greeted by hundreds of fans in Moscow. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 23:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements

"#BREAKING XX people killed in 24-hours of heavy monsoon rain in Pakistan says government"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 07:16:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.5K engagements

"Thai police have arrested a woman accused of bedding at least XX monks in violation of their vows of celibacy before blackmailing them with thousands of secretly taken photos of their trysts"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 10:50:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.7K engagements

"VIDEO: Thousands protest public health cuts in Buenos Aires Thousands of health workers and supporters marched through Buenos Aires on July XX to support the Garrahan Pediatric Hospital amid deepening cuts to Argentina's public care system under President Javier Milei's austerity plan"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:00:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 9986 engagements

"VIDEO: Britain's royal swan counter feels 'positive' as Thames population holds steady The Swan Marker to Britain's King Charles III says he and his team are happy to have discovered no decrease in the swan population along the River Thames during their annual count known as swan upping"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 14:40:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements

"Israel bombed the Syrian army's headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the country's Druze minority alone as authorities announced a ceasefire in the community's southern heartland after deadly sectarian clashes"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 16:03:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.2K engagements

"#UPDATE Syria's presidency on Friday pledged to send forces to halt the clashes between Bedouin tribal factions and Druze fighters in Sweida in the south of the country and urged "restraint.""
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 21:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements

"Venus Williams XX to return to tennis at this week's DC Open after a 16-month layoff"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 01:36:46 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.2K engagements

"#BREAKING Nvidia's Huang tells Beijing expo AI is 'transforming every industry' says China's open-source AI a 'catalyst for global progress'"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 03:14:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.3K engagements

"Rory McIlroy will be roared on in his homeland as the 153rd British Open gets underway at Royal Portrush on Thursday as world number one Scottie Scheffler seeks his first Claret Jug. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 11:40:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.9K engagements

"Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" long a staple of late night US television will end in 2026 the CBS network said days after the comedian blasted parent company Paramount's $XX million settlement with President Donald Trump as "a big fat bribe.""
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 16:00:32 UTC 2.4M followers, 9341 engagements

"VIDEO: Bad Bunny brings tourism surge to Puerto Rico The Puerto Rican singer has kicked off his blockbuster residency that's expected to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the Caribbean island while showcasing its rich culture #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 15:41:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements

"The northeastern United States was bracing for more heavy rain on Tuesday after flash floods hammered travel stranded vehicles and sparked emergency rescues across the region ➡ Video shows passengers on a New York City subway train as water pours into a station after heavy rains:"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 14:39:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements

"Spain reached the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Friday after battling past Switzerland 2-0 as the world champions continued their bid for a first-ever European crown. #AFPSports #WEURO2025"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements

"#BREAKING Syrian government forces will enter the majority Druze city of Sweida the interior ministry said on Tuesday in an effort to bring an end to deadly clashes with Bedouin tribes"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 06:00:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.6K engagements

"Netanyahu blames stray ammunition after Israeli tank fire kills three people at a Catholic church in Gaza. Pope Leo XIV "deeply saddened" by the loss of life at the only Catholic church in Gaza"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 00:31:30 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements

"VIDEO: Berliners dance to iconic Kate Bush song on Wuthering Heights Day. Dozens of Kate Bush fans dressed in red dresses gathered in a park in Germany's capital Berlin to dance together to the British singer's cult hit Wuthering Heights. This was just one of a number of similar events taking place across the world on "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever""
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 01:03:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.1K engagements

"US Republicans have approved President Donald Trump's plan to cancel $X billion in funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting vowing it was just the start of broader efforts by Congress to slash the federal budget"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 12:10:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 00:30:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.8K engagements

"US President Donald Trump has sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $XX billion over publication of a bombshell article on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls Jeffrey Epstein"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:30:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.1K engagements

"Syrian Bedouin and their allies fought Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland for a seventh day Saturday despite a ceasefire ordered by the government following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 14:30:09 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements

"VIDEO: Britain's royal swan counter feels 'positive' as Thames population holds steady The Swan Marker to Britain's King Charles III says he and his team are happy to have discovered no decrease in the swan population along the River Thames during their annual count known as swan upping"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 13:40:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"#BREAKING Syria president announces 'immediate ceasefire' in Sweida province"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 08:04:39 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.9K engagements

"Gaza's civil defence agency on Saturday said Israeli gunfire killed XX people and wounded more than XXX near two aid centres in the latest deaths of Palestinians seeking food"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 10:50:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements

"North Korea has barred foreigners from a newly opened beach resort a pet project of Kim Jong Un. State media had previously said visits to the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone by Russian tour groups was expected"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 07:58:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Royal swan population holds steady. The Swan Marker to Britain's King Charles III says he and his team are happy to have discovered no decrease in the swan population along the River Thames during their annual count known as swan upping following "a downward spiral" in recent years"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 05:30:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 19K engagements

"VIDEO: French army leaves Senegal France hands back its last two military bases in Senegal leaving the French army with no permanent camps in west and central Africa"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 10:20:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements

"Lee Westwood said the fact Royal Portrush was the host course inspired him to enter qualifying for this week's British Open after firing an impressive first-round XX on Thursday ➡ #AFPSports #TheOpen"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 14:43:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.2K engagements

"Donald Trump experienced the rough side of football as he was briefly booed at the final of the FIFA Club World Cup"
@AFP on X 2025-07-13 21:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 41.1K engagements

"Disgraced South Korean ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted for abuse of power Saturday over his declaration of martial law last year as investigators widened an insurrection probe"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 18:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"Nearly XXX people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May with most killed near the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites the UN said Friday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-11 15:20:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 135.5K engagements

"Horse racing in Lesotho a country ringed by South Africa is not just a sport it is a cultural carnival -- and this weekend's edition was timed to mark King Letsie III's birthday ➡ 📷 @Lerneryd"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 15:54:52 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements

"#UPDATE The office of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced an "immediate ceasefire" in Sweida on Saturday as interior ministry forces deployed in the Druze-majority province under a US-brokered deal with Israel. The presidency called on "all parties to fully respect" the truce that came after Israel bombed defence ministry forces which had deployed to the southern province earlier this week to force their withdrawal"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 08:07:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"Pope urges immediate end to 'barbarity' of Gaza war. The pope spoke of his "deep sorrow" over the attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza which was sheltering around XXX displaced people the majority of them children people with special needs"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 04:22:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.8K engagements

"The day before Bad Bunny kicked off his blockbuster residency that's expected to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to Puerto Rico while showcasing its rich culture he posted a simple message: Shop Local"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 18:13:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.7K engagements

"Syrian troops have pulled out of the Druze heartland province of Sweida on orders from the Islamist-led government leaving bodies strewn on the street AFP journalists reported from the provincial capital"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 10:50:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.5K engagements

"VIDEO: Trump says Ukraine 'shouldn't target Moscow' following FT report The US president also said he had no plans to supply Kyiv with long-range missiles following a report that he had encouraged President Zelensky to hit the Russian capital #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:04:56 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.7K engagements

"Scottie Scheffler closed in on a maiden British Open title on Saturday opening up a four-shot lead ahead of the final round at Royal Portrush with another imperious display. #AFPSports #BritishOpen"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 19:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.7K engagements

"Liverpool have agreed to sign Eintracht Frankfurt's French striker Hugo Ekitike in a deal worth an initial XX million ($92 million) according to reports on Monday ➡ #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 12:22:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 9072 engagements

"#UPDATE Scottie Scheffler ignited his bid for a maiden British Open title by surging through the field to take a one-shot lead after the second round at Royal Portrush on Friday. #AFPSports #BritishOpen"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 20:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements

"The riverside city awash with crime. Laos' Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone has become a centre for money laundering trafficking and online finance and romance scams a multibillion-dollar industry that shows no signs of abating warn international authorities and analysts"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 03:48:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements

"#BREAKING Death toll from south Syria violence rises to 718: monitor"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 06:05:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 37.2K engagements

"#BREAKING DR Congo Rwanda-backed M23 armed group sign ceasefire in Qatar: statement"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:35:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.1K engagements

"Syria troops quit Druze heartland after violence leaves over XXX dead. The city of Sweida was desolate on Thursday AFP correspondents on the ground report with shops looted homes burnt and bodies in the streets"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 01:28:39 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.7K engagements

"Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future was unclear after his coalition appeared to have disastrously lost its upper house majority in elections that saw strong gains by a right-wing populist party ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 22:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.3K engagements

"At least XX people were killed in a chaotic crush at an aid centre in southern Gaza on Wednesday with the site's operator blaming "agitators" within the crowd and the territory's civil defence agency attributing the panic to Israeli gunfire"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 15:50:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 9859 engagements

"Powerful earthquakes off Russias Pacific coast trigger tsunami alert: USGS"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 08:37:35 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements

"Three days after turning XX Lamine Yamal received the most special gift of all -- Barcelona's iconic number XX shirt. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 18:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements

"US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine should not target Moscow after the Kremlin charged that a new US plan to supply weapons to Kyiv along with sanctions threats against Russia would delay peace efforts @shauntandon"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 19:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"Thomas Frank said he wanted to take Tottenham Hotspur to "new heights" during his first press conference on Friday as the club's manager. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 21:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements

"Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on Monday defended the club's handling of Thomas Partey's departure after the Ghana international midfielder was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault ➡ #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 13:05:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 7864 engagements

"Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" long a staple of late night US television will end in 2026 the CBS network said Thursday days after the comedian blasted parent company Paramount's $XX million settlement with President Donald Trump as "a big fat bribe""
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 12:40:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements

"Rory McIlroy dug deep in his second round to stay in contention for the British Open title on Friday as 2023 champion Brian Harman moved into a one-shot lead at Royal Portrush before driving afternoon rain hit the course. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 15:30:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.1K engagements

"VIDEO: Peruvian citadel that is nearly 4000 years old opens doors to tourists A 3800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization -- one of the oldest in the world -- has opened its doors to visitors in Peru after eight years of study and restoration work"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 14:20:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.3K engagements

"The Ferrero Group will acquire US cereal mainstay WK Kellogg for $XXX billion as the Italian food giant expands further in North America the companies announced Thursday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-10 15:50:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday highlighted the benefits brought by immigrants during a visit to Mauritania days after rare anti-migrant unrest rocked a Spanish town"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 18:56:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"Gaza's civil defence agency says Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid on Sunday killing 93"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 00:34:45 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements

"The Man of Steel has staying power: "Superman" topped the North American box office for a second week running and surpassed the $XXX million mark worldwide industry estimates showed"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 20:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 16K engagements

"VIDEO: Prince Harry retraces Dianas steps with Angola landmine walk Britain's Prince Harry has returned to Angola to back landmine clearance efforts retracing the steps of his late mother. #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 09:00:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 29K engagements

"Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem travelled to Gaza on Friday after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church provoking international condemnation"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 15:20:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements

"Syrian interior ministry forces have begun deploying in Sweida under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 11:20:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements

"VIDEO: Coins pose 'Giant' problem at famous Northern Ireland site Visitors are being urged to stop leaving coins in cracks at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland to prevent damage to the stones at the world-famous tourist site"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 08:21:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements

"At least XX people mostly students were killed Monday when a training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka the government said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 11:55:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.6K engagements

"Venus Williamswill make her return from a 16-month layoff at this week's DC Open the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion saying Sunday she is not sure of anything beyond that"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 21:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K engagements

"8 babies born with lower genetic disease risk after IVF technique uses DNA from X people"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 05:24:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements

"Iran will hold fresh talks with European powers on Friday in Istanbul the country's state media reports. The talks will be the first since the United States attacked Iranian nuclear facilities a month ago"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 05:03:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.8K engagements

"VIDEO: Lake Texcoco overflows into abandoned airport site The partially built airport near Mexico City is now nearly submerged following torrential rains. Construction of the airport once intended to serve the metropolis was halted in 2018 after a public referendum"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 14:04:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.8K engagements

"US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was not currently planning to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell but added he was not ruling it out"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 16:34:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 9791 engagements

"#UPDATE US President Donald Trump has sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over the publication of a bombshell report on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls Jeffrey Epstein. by @SebastianAFP"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 22:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements

"Donald Trump has spent six months testing the limits of his authority like no other modern US president say analysts -- browbeating Congress and the courts in a power grab that may come to define his second term. by @frankietaggart"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 17:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements

"'Joyeux Quatorze Juillet' France is celebrating its national day known as Bastille Day with a choreographed fireworks display Monday night around the Eiffel Tower in Paris 🎉"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"Dutch rider Thymen Arensman climbed to victory on the gruelling stage XX of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Saturday as defending champion Tadej Pogacar extended his overall race lead. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 15:57:30 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"Donald Trump's administration said it would seek the release of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday as the US president sought to dispel lingering political fallout over his team's handling of the late financier's sex trafficking case"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 10:40:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements

"Kenyan human rights campaigner Boniface Mwangi was arrested at his home in the east African country the latest in a long series of arrests his wife and an NGO said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 20:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"Jack Draper has withdrawn from Masters 1000 tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati after injuring his arm as he focuses on getting fit for next month's US Open"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 17:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements

"VIDEO: Gisele Pelicot awarded France's top civic honour Pelicot who became a feminist icon by publicly testifying over the mass rapes she endured has been named knight of the Legion of Honour. She was among XXX people to receive the award on Sunday #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 15:01:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.7K engagements

"VIDEO: Suriname's battle to keep the sea at bay Suriname is South America's smallest country and vulnerable to rising sea levels linked to climate change. The land spit at the tip of the Suriname river estuary is vanishing as erosion gobbles up huge swathes of coastline"
@AFP on X 2025-07-04 14:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements

"#BREAKING UN says southern Syria violence has displaced more than 128000 people"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 11:19:36 UTC 2.4M followers, 28K engagements

"VIDEO: In Los Angeles businesses reel amid immigration raids Business owners in the Fashion District of downtown Los Angeles say raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency targeting undocumented immigrants are keeping Latino customers away and bringing sales down"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 13:01:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.1K engagements

"Manchester United have reportedly agreed to sign Cameroon winger Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford in a deal worth an initial XX million ($87 million) as Ruben Amorim steps up his overhaul of the team's misfiring attack. #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 15:12:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 9962 engagements

"The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 have signed a ceasefire deal to end the fighting that has devastated the country's mineral-rich but conflict-torn east"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 10:40:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.8K engagements

"Syria deployed security forces on Monday in the southern province of Sweida after at least XX people were killed in clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters a monitor said ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 10:31:36 UTC 2.4M followers, 37.9K engagements

"#BREAKING Macron says freedom under greatest threat since 1945"
@AFP on X 2025-07-13 17:35:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 73.1K engagements

"UPDATE EU countries on Friday signed off on a new package of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine including lowering a price cap on Moscow's oil exports. The 18th round of economic punishment against Russia since its 2022 invasion was approved after Slovakia dropped a weeks-long block following talks with Brussels over separate plans to phase out Russian gas imports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 07:22:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Oleksandr Usyk beats Daniel Dubois to become undisputed world heavyweight champion #AFPSports"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 21:38:55 UTC 2.4M followers, 27.4K engagements

"Relatives wait for news of loved ones who were on a tourist boat that capsized killing dozens at one of Vietnam's most popular tourist sites"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 02:12:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements

"#BREAKING France to ban smoking outdoors in most places: minister"
@AFP on X 2025-05-29 16:30:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 4.2M engagements

"#UPDATE The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that has devastated the country's mineral-rich but conflict-torn east"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 09:35:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K engagements

"Good Trouble protests. AFP photographs Chandan Khanna Angela Weiss Saul Loeb Ronaldo Schemidt cover the 'Good Trouble Lives On' national day of action in New York Washington DC. Houston and Miami. Protests took place across the US against the administration of President Donald Trump"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 02:33:55 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements

"The European Commission on Monday said it was putting forward a new list of US goods worth XX billion euros ($84 billion) that could be targeted by EU levies if tariff talks with Washington fail ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 14:36:45 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K engagements

"#BREAKING Netflix profits surge XX% off higher subscription prices: statement"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 20:45:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 40.3K engagements

"A driver was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after plowing into a crowd outside a Hollywood nightclub police said injuring XX people with bystanders attacking and shooting the driver before he was detained by authorities ➡"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 08:46:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements

"VIDEO: Tourist coins pose giant problem at N. Ireland's famous causeway The Giant's Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging coins in cracks between the rocks - to bring love or luck - is damaging the world-famous wonder #AFPVertical"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 11:44:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K engagements

"AFPs Dimitar Dilkoff and Thibaud Moritz photograph the firework and drone show at the Eiffel Tower as France celebrates Bastille Day in Paris on July XX 2025"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 01:50:47 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements

"VIDEO: Faced with US heat waves Native American Navajo fight for electricity Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation where more than 10000 families are still without electricity in the vast Native American reservation"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 11:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements

"Indonesia's president has hailed a "new era" of trade relations with the United States after Donald Trump said he would slash tariffs faced by Southeast Asia's biggest economy from XX percent to XX percent"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 14:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Trump diagnosed with vein issue after reporting swollen legs: White House"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 18:00:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 695.5K engagements

"#BREAKING S&P XXX Nasdaq end at records after solid US retail sales data"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 20:03:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.6K engagements

"#BREAKING Violent clashes as Syrian government forces enter Sweida city reports AFP correspondent. Prominent Druze spiritual leader calls for fight against government forces"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 07:59:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 149.7K engagements

"France on Saturday announced a "historic" accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory rocked by deadly separatist violence last year would remain French but be declared a new state"
@AFP on X 2025-07-12 15:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K engagements

"#BREAKING Iceland volcano erupts for ninth time since 2023 say meteorologists"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 06:33:29 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.3K engagements

"A French appeals court has ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah who has been imprisoned for XX years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 10:30:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements

"Misbehaving monks: Sex scandal shakes Thailand's Buddhist faithful"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 10:55:17 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements

"In the last barely functional hospital in Sweida bodies are overflowing from the morgue staff said amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 18:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements

"#BREAKING Trump sues Wall Street Journal Rupert Murdoch over Epstein story"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 21:14:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.2K engagements

"North Korea has barred foreigners from a newly opened beach resort the country's tourism administration said this week just days after Russia's top diplomat visited the area"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 11:10:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements

"#BREAKING President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States will send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine to help it fight off a Russian invasion"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 00:08:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 27.2K engagements

"The European Union executive on Wednesday proposed a two-trillion-euro long-term budget focused on tackling overseas competition and Russian aggression but it was quickly shot down by Germany the bloc's largest member"
@AFP on X 2025-07-16 21:52:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements

"Gloria Cuevas thought she would live forever in her house on Puerto Rico's west coast -- but then her landlord decided to turn it into an Airbnb. It is an all too familiar tale across the island where rising rents are forcing some residents to relocate and the Airbnb logo is plastered on homes where locals once lived"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 07:37:32 UTC 2.4M followers, 9877 engagements

"The UK government has said it plans to lower the voting age from XX to XX for general elections after pledging to make the change ahead of last year's polls"
@AFP on X 2025-07-17 11:15:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.3K engagements

"South Korea is set to overhaul its adoption system on Saturday by ending the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies which has led to widespread allegations of abuse"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 11:50:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements

"Anti-migrant protests degenerated again late Sunday outside a London hotel housing asylum seekers as rioters threw bottles and smoke bombs at the police"
@AFP on X 2025-07-20 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements

"UPDATE Cambodia's military will begin conscripting civilians next year Prime Minister Hun Manet said Monday citing rising tensions with Thailand as the reason for activating a long-dormant mandatory enlistment law. Relations with neighbouring Thailand have been tense since May when a long-standing territorial dispute boiled over"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 06:38:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K engagements

"Germany said Friday it had deported XX Afghan men convicted of crimes to their Taliban-controlled homeland as Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government looks to signal a hard line on immigration"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 14:50:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements

"#BREAKING Trump threatens to sue WSJ over story on alleged 2003 letter to Epstein"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 00:52:04 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.9K engagements

"Horse racing in Lesotho is not just a sport it is a cultural carnival -- and this weekend's edition in Semonkong carried extra weight; it was the premium fixture of the season and timed to mark King Letsie III's birthday"
@AFP on X 2025-07-21 11:45:11 UTC 2.4M followers, 9246 engagements

"At least XX people have died and dozens are missing after a tourist boat carrying more than XX capsized Saturday in Vietnams Ha Long Bay state media said"
@AFP on X 2025-07-19 14:15:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 17K engagements

"#UPDATE Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on Friday a day after the army withdrew. At least XXX people have been killed since Sunday: NGO"
@AFP on X 2025-07-18 19:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.2K engagements