[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @AFP AFP News Agency AFP News Agency posts on X about donald trump, ukraine, france, russia the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXXXX followers and 20173 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +44% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +20% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXXXX +100% - X Months XXXXX +9.50% - X Year XXXXX +0.28% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.20% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #3411 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #1180 [finance](/list/finance) #4756 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) #3300 [stocks](/list/stocks) [musicians](/list/musicians) [currencies](/list/currencies) #862 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) **Social topic influence** [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #1269, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #400, [france](/topic/france) #1157, [russia](/topic/russia), [druze](/topic/druze) #195, [israel](/topic/israel) #900, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #281, [mexico](/topic/mexico) #408, [united states](/topic/united-states) #4212, [$ai4](/topic/$ai4) #174 **Top assets mentioned** [Artificial Intelligence (AI4)](/topic/$ai4) [Copiosa Coin (COP2)](/topic/$cop) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::380648579/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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. Located in the Supe valley archaeologists believe Penico could hold insights into why the Caral civilization -- which flourished between 3000 and 1800 BC -- faded"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944621463979356448) 2025-07-14 04:54:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.6K engagements "Activists marching to Gaza say were stopped in Libya Egypt"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-2572182511) 2025-06-14 17:30:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 211.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943314272031068416) 2025-07-10 14:20:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements "Young Barcelona star Lamine Yamal has inherited the club's number XX shirt previously worn by all-time great Lionel Messi"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945537212478632421) 2025-07-16 17:33:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements "Jonathan Milan won stage eight of the Tour de France in a mass bunch sprint on Saturday ahead of Wout van Aert and Kaden Groves. #TDFF2025 #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944117054623429015) 2025-07-12 19:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.3K engagements "Iranian authorities carried out on Saturday a public execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a young girl the judiciary said. The victim's family had been involved in the legal proceedings and requested the public execution. Full story:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944003811250475466) 2025-07-12 12:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.6K engagements "More than XX suspected members of the Islamic State group have been arrested across Ethiopia state media said claiming they intended to carry out a "terror mission" ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945441850204004779) 2025-07-16 11:14:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 9835 engagements "Liverpool are considering a blockbuster XXX million ($160 million) bid for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak despite the Magpies' desire to hold onto the Sweden star according to reports on Wednesday ➡ #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945452492948475965) 2025-07-16 11:56:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 10K engagements "A congressional inquiry into the attempt to assassinateUS President Donald Trumpat a campaign rally a year ago on Sunday lamented "inexcusable" failures in the Secret Service's operations and response and called for more serious disciplinary action"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944436660038750239) 2025-07-13 16:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945478659399119094) 2025-07-16 13:40:32 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements "#BREAKING Russia says foreign minister Lavrov met Kim Jong Un in N. Korea"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943977201205903657) 2025-07-12 10:14:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 40.4K engagements "More than 1300 State Department employees were fired Friday in a downsizing ordered by President Donald Trump and touted as cutting bloated government -- but which critics predict will hamstring US influence around the world"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943817580721946769) 2025-07-11 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 29K engagements "More than XXX people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria's Sweida province a war monitor said Wednesday raising an earlier toll of XXX dead"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945513148758331731) 2025-07-16 15:57:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 9547 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944937658246918226) 2025-07-15 01:50:47 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements "France and Equatorial Guinea to cross swords Tuesday at top UN court in a long-running dispute over a luxury Paris mansion confiscated by French authorities"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945015950572417148) 2025-07-15 07:01:53 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements "🏏 England beat India by XX runs in the third Test at Lord's on Monday in the latest last-day thriller between the teams. Here is an #AFPSports looks at three key aspects from a gripping encounter in London ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944909525821137108) 2025-07-14 23:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9528 engagements "Small Christian village in the West Bank blames Israeli settlers for a spate of recent attacks"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945298718699188405) 2025-07-16 01:45:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 14K engagements "Small fuzzy and baring sharp teeth Chinese toymaker Pop Mart's Labubu monster dolls have taken over the world drawing excited crowds at international stores and adorning the handbags of celebrities such as Rihanna and Cher"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1936092277144715550) 2025-06-20 16:02:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.6K engagements "Bad Bunny's sweeping first concert of his three-month Puerto Rico residency was a night of palpable emotion for the megastar whose latest smash artistic endeavor brings his global stardom back to his roots. by @maggydonaldson"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944109508823019643) 2025-07-12 19:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements "Unreleased Beyonce music stolen from car in Atlanta"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944978430275039416) 2025-07-15 04:32:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements "#UPDATE Jannik Sinner is the quiet man of tennis who has become a big noise burnishing his legacy by winning his first Wimbledon title. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944539840273416508) 2025-07-13 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements "France's defence relations with Australia have recovered after their 2021 bust-up over a major submarine contract the country's ambassador said Sunday"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944373745579401604) 2025-07-13 12:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements "The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba has resigned amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging through garbage cans were only pretending to be poor and not truly desperate"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945481122621563176) 2025-07-16 13:50:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 9215 engagements "VIDEO: 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. by @paulacramon"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944077884961792333) 2025-07-12 16:54:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945458517994795376) 2025-07-16 12:20:30 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements "Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on Friday of part of the Grand Canyon with the US National Park Service appealing for visitors to stay calm"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943732017427869725) 2025-07-11 18:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9156 engagements "#UPDATE US President Donald Trump told Russia on Monday to end its Ukraine war within XX days or face massive new economic sanctions as he laid out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv via NATO"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944861981673984505) 2025-07-14 20:50:04 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements "Tadej Pogacar won stage X of the Tour de France on Friday to retake the overall lead with a trademark swoop up the short steep slope of the Mur de Bretagne. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943694333179228188) 2025-07-11 15:30:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945454600212914487) 2025-07-16 12:04:56 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements "#BREAKING UN brings fuel into Gaza for first time in XXX days: spokesman"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943359945803481406) 2025-07-10 17:21:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 27.9K engagements "VIDEO: 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945207762301940128) 2025-07-15 19:44:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942876379139490002) 2025-07-09 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements "UPDATE Trump says the US will send Patriot air defense systems to Kyiv and hints at new sanctions on Russia once again voicing displeasure with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Moscow's war in Ukraine"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944579190038122525) 2025-07-14 02:06:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.9K engagements "Apple TV+'s dark sci-fi office drama "Severance" on Tuesday led the contenders for the Emmy Awards television's version of the Oscars with a whopping XX nominations"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945171911916257520) 2025-07-15 17:21:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements "France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash overall spending while also increasing defence expenses ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945151325894766877) 2025-07-15 15:59:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 8497 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945499224402973165) 2025-07-16 15:02:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 9526 engagements "US tech giant Nvidia will resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China after Washington pledged to remove licensing curbs"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945024177024504061) 2025-07-15 07:34:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements "Monsters and memes: Labubu dolls ride China soft-power wave. Small fuzzy and baring sharp teeth Chinese toymaker Pop Mart's Labubu monster dolls have taken over the world drawing excited crowds at international stores and adorning the handbags of celebrities such as Rihanna and Cher"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1935970638683910149) 2025-06-20 07:59:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements "VIDEO: In Urk a fishing village in the northern Netherlands the sea has long been the lifeblood for families -- but has often taken loved ones in return. Advances in DNA technology and artificial intelligence are giving locals renewed hope"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942327512500945213) 2025-07-07 20:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945381979920220565) 2025-07-16 07:16:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945514542865285355) 2025-07-16 16:03:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 9585 engagements "Yo Amano has been confined alone almost XX hours a day for over six years in Japan despite not having been convicted of the fraud charges against him: by @TomohiroOsaki"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942067246559543378) 2025-07-07 03:44:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.7K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944647719374450884) 2025-07-14 06:38:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements "#UPDATE Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff killing XXX people were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943815064131109105) 2025-07-11 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements "South Africa's police minister suspended "with immediate effect" over corruption allegations"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944570243566707136) 2025-07-14 01:30:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements "The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12000 kilometers (7400 miles) away in Chile and Argentina weather authorities in the South American countries said"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1214319482430251025) 2020-01-06 22:55:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 5873 engagements "#BREAKING Erdogan says 'Turkey has won' after Kurdish PKK fighters disarm"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943953131508806061) 2025-07-12 08:38:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945090005677887638) 2025-07-15 11:56:10 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.3K engagements "Astronomers say they have observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945503800292159879) 2025-07-16 15:20:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements "VIDEO: Cachimba like many of the dogs living in Chichen Itza is one of the furry guardians of the majestic Mayan city in southeastern Mexico. Some of the dogs arrived badly injured sick or malnourished at the site of the Kukulkan pyramid"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945267132016574939) 2025-07-15 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9869 engagements "VIDEO: Afghanistan taxi drivers turn to handmade coolers to beat the heat As temperatures soar in southern Afghanistan taxi drivers in Kandahar have taken to installing handmade cooling systems on their vehicles to beat the heat"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943289239229079816) 2025-07-10 12:40:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.1K engagements "A Norwegian lottery company on Monday apologised to 47000 crestfallen gamblers who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a lottery the firm blaming a currency conversion error ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1939687941808222514) 2025-06-30 14:10:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944604818800103919) 2025-07-14 03:48:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.4K engagements "Skidding Nissan to halt production at Japanese plant"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-4292318180) 2025-07-15 15:44:59 UTC 2.4M followers, X 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945522486214373613) 2025-07-16 16:34:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 9274 engagements "Tourist coins pose giant problem at Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944632066638754005) 2025-07-14 05:36:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.9K engagements "Barcelona star Lamine Yamal is facing an investigation regarding the presence of a group of people with dwarfism as entertainers at his 18th birthday party last weekend Spain's Ministry of Social Rights told AFP on Tuesday ➡ #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945102357013881060) 2025-07-15 12:45:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.4K engagements "#BREAKING Trump says Mexico EU to face XX% tariff from Aug 1"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944018741374734503) 2025-07-12 12:59:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 46.3K engagements "VIDEO: Taiwanese army holds live-fire drills in face of China threat. Using advanced US-made M1A2T Abrams tanks Taiwan is holding its largest military drills -- the "Han Kuang" Exercise -- joined by a record mobilisation of reservists for XX days of training aimed at defending against a Chinese invasion"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943213226704908746) 2025-07-10 07:38:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944596071830696236) 2025-07-14 03:13:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.2K engagements "A farm worker was in critical condition on Friday his family said after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on a legal cannabis farm in California that resulted in the arrests of XXX undocumented migrants and clashes with protesters"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943958512305869215) 2025-07-12 09:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945131014835106137) 2025-07-15 14:39:07 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944894685794746654) 2025-07-14 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.1K engagements "VIDEO After years in a Syrian detention camp housing relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq. But his joy was punctured by the harsh reality that he had to disown his sons accused of being jihadists 🎥"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944899711384903934) 2025-07-14 23:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945491275370623134) 2025-07-16 14:30:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.8K engagements "Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Tuesday he wanted to reduce the number of public holidays in France as part of a bid to tackle what he called the "curse" of his country's debt"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945180098929308071) 2025-07-15 17:54:09 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.4K engagements "Russia pummelled Ukraine Wednesday with its largest missile and drone attack in more than three years of war hours after US President Donald Trump launched an expletive-filled attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943042474789740639) 2025-07-09 20:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.2K engagements "Donald Trump experienced the rough side of football as he was briefly booed at the final of the FIFA Club World Cup"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944505866109030682) 2025-07-13 21:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 40.9K engagements "The curtain comes down on the first edition of FIFA's expanded Club World Cup when reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain face Chelsea in Sunday's final at the MetLife Stadium with Donald Trump among those set to be in attendance. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944336006154785270) 2025-07-13 10:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.7K engagements "Huawei probe blunder sparks EU parliament rules change. When lawmaker Giusi Princi learnt she was sought by Belgian authorities over a graft investigation linked to Huawei in May she was "dumbfounded". It soon turned out she had nothing to do with it"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943196619496636720) 2025-07-10 06:32:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.2K engagements "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his full support on the war in Ukraine during talks on Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the North's state media said"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944185004411511003) 2025-07-13 00:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements "#BREAKING France to ban smoking outdoors in most places: minister"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1928126808395755692) 2025-05-29 16:30:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 4.2M engagements "Boos and applause for Trump at Club World Cup final. Trump experienced the agony and the ecstasy of football on Sunday as he was booed even as he joined in some high-spirited celebrations with champions Chelsea"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944586454543315394) 2025-07-14 02:35:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.3K engagements "Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide didn't have 'client list': US government memo"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-199614324) 2025-07-08 08:15:18 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements "Ada Hegerberg is back at the heart of the Norwegian national team as she prepares to face Italy in the quarter-finals of Women's Euro 2025 #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945166714385121360) 2025-07-15 17:00:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements "VIDEO: Israeli strikes kill XX Gaza civil defence says as truce talks stall Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least XX people including children at a water distribution point as ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas stalled"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944719775810388325) 2025-07-14 11:25:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945602442223083919) 2025-07-16 21:52:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 9617 engagements "France will loan the Bayeux Tapestry to London's British Museum from September 2026 to June 2027 French President Emmanuel Macron told media at the start of a state visit to the UK. The loan of the embroidery depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England will be made in exchange for archaeological treasures from the UK's Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo site Macron told two French regional newspapers"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942595383642751088) 2025-07-08 14:43:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945067712541036965) 2025-07-15 10:27:34 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944725679569773022) 2025-07-14 11:48:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.5K engagements "#BREAKING New Zealand beat France 43-17 in second Test #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943958505469489238) 2025-07-12 08:59:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements "A leading humanitarian group criticised Greece after its government announced it would pause for three months all asylum hearings for people arriving in boats from North Africa to deter a migration surge from Libya ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943384729614495959) 2025-07-10 19:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K engagements "Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944381295682830483) 2025-07-13 13:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.8K engagements "Muhammadu Buhari who died Sunday left office in 2023 after serving two terms and made Nigerian political history as the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting president at the ballot box"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944475667107643444) 2025-07-13 19:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945192138167173510) 2025-07-15 18:42:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.7K engagements "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed appointing PM Denys Shmygal as defence minister in a significant political shakeup. Shmygal's 'vast experience will certainly be useful in the position of minister of defence of Ukraine' Zelensky said in his evening address"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829762104345042) 2025-07-14 18:42:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.6K engagements "#UPDATE Russia fired XXX drones and XX long-range missiles overnight Ukraine said on Saturday following record barrages by Moscow recently in its more than three-year invasion. "The enemy launched XXX aerial weapons" the Ukrainian air force said in a statement adding it had downed XXX drones and XX missiles"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943940854395056294) 2025-07-12 07:49:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.2K engagements "An effigy of life jacket-wearing migrants and their boat burned atop a huge bonfire in Northern Ireland a potent example of how the province's deep sectarian divide has fanned and mixed with anti-immigrant hatred:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943921215220965576) 2025-07-12 06:31:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945030343536321001) 2025-07-15 07:59:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 146.6K engagements "More than 3000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year the United Nations said Friday"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943643985299243460) 2025-07-11 12:10:11 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements "Humanoid robot says not aiming to 'replace human artists'. Unveiling a new portrait of King Charles this week artist Ai-Da described what inspired the layered and complex piece and insisted it had no plans to replace humans"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943218371178205521) 2025-07-10 07:58:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 9010 engagements "#BREAKING Elon Musk says he has created new US political party"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941586870132933040) 2025-07-05 19:55:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 447.9K engagements "VIDEO: K-pop's BTS are grossed out by them. A YouTuber ate them. Hikers plough through them: South Korea is dealing with a "lovebug" invasion that experts say highlights worsening climate change"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943072925394842065) 2025-07-09 22:21:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements "German customs officers discover 1500 tarantulas hidden inside a shipment disguised as cookies"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944947953510039866) 2025-07-15 02:31:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.1K engagements "#BREAKING Trump says Putin talking 'a lot of bullshit' on Ukraine"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942621117492969967) 2025-07-08 16:25:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 89.9K engagements "A top European court said a Swiss court did not give South African runner Caster Semenya a fair trial over whether she should lower her testosterone levels to compete as a woman ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943399834213585213) 2025-07-10 20:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements "#BREAKING Cambodia to implement military conscription in 2026 says PM"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944635744850448412) 2025-07-14 05:51:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.4K engagements "Anthony Albanese arrived in Shanghai Saturday to kick off his second visit to China as Australian prime minister seeking to bolster recently stabilised trade ties even as geopolitical tensions remain high"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943998774969520208) 2025-07-12 11:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945449410051137571) 2025-07-16 11:44:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements "Major US ice cream makers have announced plans to phase out their use of artificial dyes following pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eliminate unnecessary additives from the American diet"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945272417594827132) 2025-07-16 00:01:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements "#BREAKING Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands on Tuesday lost a landmark court bid to hold the government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945000087064641971) 2025-07-15 05:58:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942720359658131950) 2025-07-08 23:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 108.5K engagements "#BREAKING Trump says to impose XX% tariff on Brazil goods"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943043843978400118) 2025-07-09 20:25:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 36K engagements "Liverpool are to retire Diogo Jota's number XX shirt in honour of the Portugal forward who was killed with his brother Andre Silva in a car crash this month"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943792417590673439) 2025-07-11 22:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements "#BREAKING Iga Swiatek destroys Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 to win first #Wimbledon title #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944067281040158971) 2025-07-12 16:12:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945082415258403279) 2025-07-15 11:26:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.6K engagements "Crystal Palace have been demoted from the Europa League to the Conference League by UEFA for a breach of multi-club ownership rules European football's governing body confirmed Friday. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943716922920407413) 2025-07-11 17:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 9024 engagements "China says BRICS not seeking 'confrontation' after Trump tariff threat"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-3197741204) 2025-07-07 09:15:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 1217 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945496217913303060) 2025-07-16 14:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 9882 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944549508232126492) 2025-07-14 00:08:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 27.1K engagements "A divided US Supreme Court on Monday gave President Donald Trump the green light to resume dismantling the Education Department and conducting mass layoffs at the agency that oversees national education policy"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944868757383598110) 2025-07-14 21:17:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements "England midfielder Jordan Henderson joined Premier League side Brentford on a free transfer on Tuesday following his exit from Dutch side Ajax ➡ #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945086279290360096) 2025-07-15 11:41:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements "VIDEO: 'Frogging' takes off in Borneo rainforest Kubah National Park is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual frog species. Visitors trek through the rainforest on the hunt for the exotic amphibians in a pastime dubbed "frogging""  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941820421122466060) 2025-07-06 11:24:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945476167588356515) 2025-07-16 13:30:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K 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. Some of the dogs arrived badly injured sick or malnourished at the site of the Kukulkan pyramid. Maria Guadalupe Espinosa director of the archaeological site says they now receive food vaccinations and "a lot of love""  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944560472826486821) 2025-07-14 00:51:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945558294451359861) 2025-07-16 18:56:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 9768 engagements "#UPDATE Lavrov "was received" by Kim Jong Un Russia's foreign ministry said on Telegram posting a video of two men shaking hands and greeting with a hug"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944018910677782857) 2025-07-12 13:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945468818970595570) 2025-07-16 13:01:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 9641 engagements "#UPDATE Iga Swiatek demolished Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 in the most one-sided women's #Wimbledon final for XXX years to win her sixth Grand Slam title. by @JohnMWeaver1 #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944085597762597014) 2025-07-12 17:25:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.4K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943334488873816569) 2025-07-10 15:40:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.3K engagements "Sweden laid down a marker at Euro 2025 by confidently beating 10-woman Germany 4-1 on Saturday and topping Group C with a perfect nine points. #AFPSports #WEURO2025"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944177453754462687) 2025-07-12 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements "#BREAKING Israel urges Syria to 'leave the Druze in Sweida alone' and withdraw its forces"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945387082270073328) 2025-07-16 07:36:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.6K engagements "VIDEO Taiwan is conducting its largest annual military training initiative. The army conducts night drills to transport troops and supplies using the Taipei underground while anti-landing live-fire exercises in Penghu and Matsu regions simulate a sudden Chinese invasion 🎥"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944811237092532562) 2025-07-14 17:28:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945355308437529080) 2025-07-16 05:30:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945488677364236352) 2025-07-16 14:20:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941134912498597905) 2025-07-04 14:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements "#BREAKING Macron says freedom under greatest threat since 1945"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944450621148451169) 2025-07-13 17:35:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 72.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944049116146987062) 2025-07-12 15:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943238767328014349) 2025-07-10 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945566368713134545) 2025-07-16 19:29:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements "VIDEO: Two Brazilian nuns Sister Marizele and Sister Marisa have gone viral on social media after their energetic beatboxing and dancing during a religious program in Goiania in the Central-West region of Brazil. The sisters are members of the Copiosa Redencao congregation"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1928743252284391854) 2025-05-31 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.4K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942549223548862490) 2025-07-08 11:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements "VIDEO: Armed gang attacks Kenyan Human Rights Commission An armed gang attacks the headquarters of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission as it hosts a press conference calling for an end to state violence ahead of "Saba Saba Day" an annual commemoration of pro-democracy protests in the 1990s"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942184494485700704) 2025-07-07 11:30:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 107K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1938282027226186009) 2025-06-26 17:03:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945000437062467782) 2025-07-15 06:00:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 29.2K engagements "VIDEO: Shops restaurants vandalized in Mexico City anti-gentrification protest Hundreds turned out in the Colonia Roma neighborhood to denounce rising housing prices and the displacement of long-time Mexican residents from areas increasingly populated by foreigners"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941462381420245032) 2025-07-05 11:41:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 149.4K engagements "First birthday of Thailand's pygmy hippo Moo Deng celebrated with four-day festival"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943173766634189287) 2025-07-10 05:01:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.8K engagements "You're a TV star Harry: Potter series to debut in 2027"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944956588168527961) 2025-07-15 03:06:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements "Cristiana Girelli shot Italy into the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Wednesday with a brace including a last-gasp winner in the Azzurre's historic 2-1 triumph over Norway"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945600818075328533) 2025-07-16 21:45:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 9843 engagements "Iran unleashed a missile barrage on Israeli cities on Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic republic leaving streets in ruins and the death toll in Israel climbing by XX amid a spiralling air war ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1934570035709722799) 2025-06-16 11:13:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 25K engagements "#BREAKING Iran says no nuclear talks if US insists it abandon enrichment: state media"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944799887641522407) 2025-07-14 16:43:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 34K engagements "Erin Patterson has been found guilty in Australia of triple murder. The three victims ate a meal spiked with death cap mushrooms -- the world's deadliest fungi:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942078481422331920) 2025-07-07 04:29:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.3K engagements "Donald Trump said Tuesday the US Justice Department should release all "credible" information from its probe into notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein as he sought to douse a firestorm of criticism from his supporters @frankietaggart"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945237152519905631) 2025-07-15 21:40:52 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.6K engagements "A raucous reception will greet Rory McIlroy as the British Open returns to Royal Portrush and Northern Ireland on Thursday for the first time since Shane Lowry's 2019 triumph. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945460966033854896) 2025-07-16 12:30:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 9385 engagements "#UPDATE President Donald Trump accuses his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of talking 'bullshit' about Ukraine saying the United States would send Kyiv more weapons to defend itself"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942675981506076835) 2025-07-08 20:03:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K 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 and therefore air conditioning"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945463426312290518) 2025-07-16 12:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9671 engagements "#BREAKING Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz to win first Wimbledon ##AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944463317994488290) 2025-07-13 18:25:56 UTC 2.4M followers, 42.9K engagements "AFPs Francois Lo Presti photographs sailboats during the "Voiles de Legende" event in Dunkirk France. Forty 'exceptional sailboats' including some 'among the most beautiful in the world' are docked in Dunkirk (North) until July XX for the event 'Legendary Sails' for which the organizers expect nearly 600000 visitors over four days"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943531878130094569) 2025-07-11 04:44:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.7K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943329480937759180) 2025-07-10 15:20:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements "VIDEO The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo group celebrate finding 'Grandchild No. 140' in Buenos Aires. Decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother the man was identified as one of Argentina's hundreds of 'stolen grandchildren'"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942725384304198035) 2025-07-08 23:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945659068372205964) 2025-07-17 01:37:25 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements "Hong Kong court hears appeals by democracy campaigners jailed for subversion last year"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944660239116128680) 2025-07-14 07:28:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements "Liverpool manager Arne Slot paid tribute to Diogo Jota in an interview released on Sunday saying the Portugal forward was a "champion" in everything he did. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944419046335672387) 2025-07-13 15:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements "VIDEO: Argentina's 140th 'stolen grandchild' is identified The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo activist group celebrate the finding of "Grandchild No. 140." in Buenos Aires. Nearly five decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother the man becomes the 140th person identified as one of Argentina's hundreds of "stolen grandchildren.""  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942886618433466381) 2025-07-09 10:00:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 9832 engagements "Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota and his brother were laid to rest on Saturday in their hometown just days after the pair died in a car crash that shocked the football world ➡ #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941467247832146304) 2025-07-05 12:00:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.5K engagements "Donald Trump began his NATO summit journey in a F-bomb-laced fury. But what a difference a day makes. Hours later the US leader was a man transformed"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1937930038177083725) 2025-06-25 17:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements "VIDEO: Residents in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore wade through waist-deep water as the city floods after heavy downpours during the monsoon season"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943362080926519450) 2025-07-10 17:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.7K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945511302689866094) 2025-07-16 15:50:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 9398 engagements "Mali's junta chief has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate renewable "as many times as necessary" and without election ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943377179233910963) 2025-07-10 18:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements "The return of the prodigal Oasis brothers to Manchester on Friday -- on the second leg of their highly anticipated reunion tour -- has rekindled memories of the city's time as a cultural epicentre"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943641601131106388) 2025-07-11 12:00:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.1K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945321227658092768) 2025-07-16 03:14:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 22.8K engagements "#BREAKING Trump threatens 'very severe tariffs' on Russia's trading partners if no Ukraine deal within XX days"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944786880387592543) 2025-07-14 15:51:39 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.8K engagements "US-Palestinian Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was beaten to death on Friday in an Israeli settler attack in the occupied West Bank his family said on Saturday demanding that Washington launch a probe into his death. ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944013874803445964) 2025-07-12 12:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.1K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945201701138346432) 2025-07-15 19:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.1K engagements "US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday he had a "positive" meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of ASEAN talks in Malaysia where Washington's tariffs are in sharp focus"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943651545561678187) 2025-07-11 12:40:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K engagements "#UPDATE NvidiaCEO Jensen Huang called China's open-source artificial intelligence a "catalyst for global progress" and hailed the country's innovation in the sector as he addressed an expo in Beijing on Wednesday ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945398815382495595) 2025-07-16 08:23:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements "VIDEO: Locals and tourists participate in the first bull run of the annual San Fermin festival in Spain's Pamplona. Six bulls led by some tame bullocks are released at X am local time to run around XXX metres through the city's streets"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942272334691172578) 2025-07-07 17:19:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.8K engagements "US President Donald Trump spoke Friday of seeing devastation like he'd never before experienced as he toured parts of Texas hit by devastating flash floods that have left at least XXX people dead including dozens of children. by @dannyctkemp"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943780521773084755) 2025-07-11 21:12:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943656861942608125) 2025-07-11 13:01:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements "The latest version of xAI's generative artificial intelligence assistant Grok X frequently consults owner Elon Musk's positions on topics before responding"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943742083539554430) 2025-07-11 18:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements "VIDEO: King Charles Macron laud new 'entente' on French president's state visit King Charles III and Emmanuel Macron both hailed a new era in UK-France relations as the French president began a three-day formal visit to Britain #AFPVertical"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942944577411039538) 2025-07-09 13:51:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements "Thousands of Puerto Ricans gathered Friday evening as Bad Bunny's historic residency was set to launch in San Juan a concert series showcasing the island's pride and resilience:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943856940863697018) 2025-07-12 02:16:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K engagements "Ecuador's most notorious drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges a court in Quito said"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943811289618559430) 2025-07-11 23:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements "AFPs Charly Triballeau photographs a 54-pound Martian meteorite named NWA 16788 the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth. The Martian meteorite will be auctioned off by Sotheby's New York on July 16"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945280545279143947) 2025-07-16 00:33:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.1K engagements "The North Rim of the Grand Canyon has been closed to visitors for the remainder of the 2025 season due to wildfare damage and losses the National Park Service says"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945535497721225355) 2025-07-16 17:26:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 7050 engagements "President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade pact with Indonesia resulting in significant purchase commitments from the Southeast Asian country following negotiations to avoid steeper US tariffs"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945211515742589367) 2025-07-15 19:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements "#UPDATE Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the secretive country and key Moscow ally Russia's foreign ministry said"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943981265041936662) 2025-07-12 10:30:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.9K engagements "President Donald Trump on Saturday targeted Mexico and the European Union with steep XX percent tariffs dramatically raisingthe stakes in already tense negotiations with two of the largest US trading partners. by @beiyis"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944147253377061238) 2025-07-12 21:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements "VIDEO: 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945158860764815759) 2025-07-15 16:29:46 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements "#UPDATE Jannik Sinner downed Carlos Alcaraz 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon title gaining sweet revenge for his painful defeat in the French Open final. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944482965419081909) 2025-07-13 19:44:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 35.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944706338145042900) 2025-07-14 10:31:36 UTC 2.4M followers, 37.5K engagements "Donald Trump will on Sunday showcase his unexpected attachment to a sport in which "America First" remains a dream for now. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944351101748228406) 2025-07-13 11:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944388847242014799) 2025-07-13 13:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.3K engagements "VIDEO: 'Frogging' takes off in Borneo rainforest Kubah National Park is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual frog species. Visitors trek through the rainforest on the hunt for the exotic amphibians in a pastime dubbed "frogging""  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941874789238374630) 2025-07-06 15:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942896697119555698) 2025-07-09 10:40:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944759790535626812) 2025-07-14 14:04:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.5K engagements "The US ambassador to Israel on Tuesday demanded an aggressive investigation and consequences after settlers beat to death a Palestinian-American in rare public pressure against the ally by President Donald Trump's administration"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945231900106481671) 2025-07-15 21:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements "#BREAKING Iceland volcano erupts for ninth time since 2023 say meteorologists"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945371187648852439) 2025-07-16 06:33:29 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.4K engagements "Ten people have been rescued after Yemen's Huthis sank a cargo ship an EU naval force said Thursday with three killed and XX missing in one of the rebel group's deadliest Red Sea attacks"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943264047710732656) 2025-07-10 11:00:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.9K engagements "Scientists at the seal rehabilitation centre in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda say only five percent of cubs survive in the wild where they also face pollution and low fish stocks because of overfishing. The Baltic Sea which is shared by the EU and Russia now rarely freezes over because of climate change depriving seals of sanctuaries to rear their cubs"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943654084378054948) 2025-07-11 12:50:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements "Gisele Pelicot who became a feminist icon by publicly testifying over the mass rapes she endured and rapper-turned-fashion designer Pharrell Williams were among XXX people awarded France's top civic honour on Sunday"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944358648240890334) 2025-07-13 11:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements "#UPDATE US President Donald Trump tells Russia to resolve its Ukraine war within XX days or face massive new economic sanctions as he lays out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944794936932536555) 2025-07-14 16:23:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements "Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action following a second consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944154809491202116) 2025-07-12 22:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements "Survivors of Cambodia's four-year genocide on Saturday told AFP they were "thrilled" that three sites of their lives' biggest horror - where the Khmer Rouge regime perpetrated genocide XX years ago - has gained UNESCO recognition. Full story:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943983675525280159) 2025-07-12 10:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.4K engagements "#BREAKING Ukraine says Russia fired XXX drones and missiles overnight"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943938128328503741) 2025-07-12 07:39:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 42.2K engagements "The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 targeting mostly ethnic Chinese in the country will be scrubbed from the text:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944224277731192981) 2025-07-13 02:36:04 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.7K engagements "VIDEO: Sandbanks are starting to appear in France's Loire River which runs through chateau country -- a consequence of a lack of rainfall and intense heat in June and July"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944132154700837182) 2025-07-12 20:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.3K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945329035552104528) 2025-07-16 03:45:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.7K engagements "New Zealand head coach Scott Robertson was pleased with a "ruthless" All Blacks display Saturday as an under-strength France were crushed 43-17 in the second Test in Wellington to clinch the series with a game to spare. #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944162353395769665) 2025-07-12 22:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.1K engagements "A farm worker has died after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on alegal cannabis farm in California his family said on Saturday"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944343547957948591) 2025-07-13 10:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements "Fast-spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of part of the Grand Canyon with the US National Park Service ordering visitors and residents away from its northern rim:"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943905274068447457) 2025-07-12 05:28:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements "Elon Musk's Grok inks Pentagon deal. Grok has rarely been out of the headlines for its offensive gaffes including spewing Hitler-supporting rhetoric and antisemitic tropes"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944917082245644416) 2025-07-15 00:29:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945484019220488610) 2025-07-16 14:01:50 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements "Donald Trump has long sung the praises of Russia's 'strong leader' Vladimir Putin. With his Monday announcement of new arms for Ukraine via Europe and tariff threats on Russia Trump's bromance with Putin has hit a new low -- but it may not be over"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944904744545173757) 2025-07-14 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements "Southeast Turkey where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand -- even after members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944139707652173847) 2025-07-12 21:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 17K 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 and run cables to Christine Shorty's house -- finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation the largest in the United States where more than 10000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944654041457582420) 2025-07-14 07:03:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943646454800585185) 2025-07-11 12:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K engagements "VIDEO: Ukraine covers roads in anti-drone netting as attacks intensify Working along a road in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region Denis and his team of military engineers are installing netting the latest measure to combat the waves of Russian drones targetting the country"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943626512525148289) 2025-07-11 11:00:46 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943336974393217342) 2025-07-10 15:50:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements "'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945316449569898869) 2025-07-16 02:55:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944124604286472217) 2025-07-12 20:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.4K engagements "VIDEO: South Korea battles 'lovebug' invasion K-pop's BTS are grossed out by them. A YouTuber ate them. Hikers plough through them: South Korea is dealing with a "lovebug" invasion that experts say highlights worsening climate change"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943274147984937133) 2025-07-10 11:40:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements "Infographic on the Club World Cup 2025 final between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on July XX #AFPSports"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943674187693928894) 2025-07-11 14:10:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements "VIDEO: Egyptian women reclaim belly dance from stigma As belly dancing gains popularity internationally young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of their artistic heritage"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943223777476653364) 2025-07-10 08:20:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements "VIDEO: Lithuania works to save Baltic seals as ice sheets recede A rehabilitation center is nurturing Baltic grey seals back to health before releasing them into the wild. Climate change pollution and overfishing are leaving the population highly vulnerable #AFPVertical"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945077359159189851) 2025-07-15 11:05:54 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements "Agamise Cheranfant hides as soon as he finishes his work at a banana plantation in the Dominican Republic. Like many others he is Haitian undocumented and lives in constant fear of deportation"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1941282124239192522) 2025-07-04 23:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.1K engagements "Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks -- to bring love or luck -- is damaging the world-famous wonder Read more 👇"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944305466177466807) 2025-07-13 07:58:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements "Market panic deepens as China retaliates against Trump tariffs"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/gulfnews.com-3413045977) 2025-07-15 10:38:15 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements "Delay in fully opening Egypts Grand Museum puts tourism hopes on hold"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945027146491011150) 2025-07-15 07:46:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements "#BREAKING Hamas says agreed to release XX hostages as part of Gaza truce talks"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943035640880214263) 2025-07-09 19:52:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 38K engagements "#UPDATE President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a XX percent tariff on key US trading partners Mexico and the European Union ramping up pressure for deals in his trade wars"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944019263355756628) 2025-07-12 13:01:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 22.4K engagements "Greece will halt for three months all asylum hearings for migrants arriving on boats from North Africa the prime minister said on Wednesday amid a migrant surge from Libya"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942916057666052466) 2025-07-09 11:57:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.3K engagements "#BREAKING Fuel to Air India jet engines cut off moments before crash: probe"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943783999345692721) 2025-07-11 21:26:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 33.4K engagements "Manchester City sign kit deal worth CRAZY money"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/thesouthafrican.com-2933373609) 2025-07-15 13:57:20 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements "#BREAKING June was hottest recorded in western Europe says EU monitor"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942766811629437012) 2025-07-09 02:04:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.7K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943691852995055868) 2025-07-11 15:20:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 134.8K engagements "US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Saturday she had ordered charges to be dropped against a doctor accused of destroying Covid-19 jabs and issuing fake vaccination certificates"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944315188708356488) 2025-07-13 08:37:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.7K engagements "Pentagon chief orders withdrawal of 2000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945288458647269440) 2025-07-16 01:04:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.5K engagements "Trump says US will send Ukraine Patriot air defense systems"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-1811194743) 2025-07-14 05:10:24 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements "The X account of Sesame Street's Elmo a beloved children's TV character shared antisemitic and anti-Donald Trump posts after being hacked. The nonprofit behind the show says an unidentified hacker was responsible and that the account has been secured"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944805941125218780) 2025-07-14 17:07:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements "Iran said Saturday its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency "will take on a new form" expressing a desire for a diplomatic solution to resolve concerns over its nuclear program"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944094406241329462) 2025-07-12 18:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements "Soft power. K-pop megaband BTS is back from military service and their international fandom -- long known for its progressive activism -- is celebrating by rallying behind a cause: adoptees from South Korea"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1934880890443722795) 2025-06-17 07:48:47 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K 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 following "a downward spiral" in recent years"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945493890833826132) 2025-07-16 14:41:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 9370 engagements "Three notorious Cambodian torture and execution sites used by the Khmer Rouge regime to perpetrate genocide XX years ago have been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943722887736635592) 2025-07-11 17:23:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.8K engagements "Thousands of Afghans who worked with the UK government and their families were brought to Britain in a secret programme after a 2022 data breach put their lives at risk a minister revealed on Tuesday ➡"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945123721116536927) 2025-07-15 14:10:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements "UPDATE Greece's culture ministry on Tuesday ordered a partial closure of the Acropolis the country's top monument to protect visitors amid heatwave conditions. Temperatures in the country are expected to reach XX Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday with a maximum of XX Celsius in Athens"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942485459109605403) 2025-07-08 07:26:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements "Greece's top archaeological monument the Acropolis was partially shut Tuesday as part of emergency measures to protect visitors and workers around the country during a four-day heatwave"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942536714834092317) 2025-07-08 10:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements "VIDEO: Two Brazilian nuns Sister Marizele and Sister Marisa have gone viral on social media after their energetic beatboxing and dancing during a religious program in Goiania in the Central-West region of Brazil. The sisters are members of the Copiosa Redencao congregation"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1928476494935871604) 2025-05-30 15:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements "Spreading Grand Canyon fire destroys historic lodge"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944928931288617007) 2025-07-15 01:16:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1942950366955663807) 2025-07-09 14:14:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1943669174540156968) 2025-07-11 13:50:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.2K engagements "'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945466017171243275) 2025-07-16 12:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.7K engagements ""Superman" the latest big-budget action film featuring the iconic DC superhero powered to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend with $XXX million in ticket sales industry estimates showed"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944468117779800223) 2025-07-13 18:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements "French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday declared July XX a French day of national commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus a French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 in a notorious act of antisemitism. The first would be celebrated in 2026"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944034008964509747) 2025-07-12 14:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements "#UPDATE Syrian government forces entered the majority Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday the interior ministry said aiming to end clashes with Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly XXX people"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945021742499397872) 2025-07-15 07:24:54 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944774338055393579) 2025-07-14 15:01:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.4K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944768030250086593) 2025-07-14 14:36:45 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.8K 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](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1945643068092211639) 2025-07-17 00:33:50 UTC 2.4M followers, X engagements "'Inexcusable' failures led to Trump assassination attempt: Senate report"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/news/newindianexpress.com-697202404) 2025-07-13 17:04:20 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements "VIDEO: Belgium conjure up win at quidditch world cup Known officially as quadball since 2022 quidditch was originally inspired by the game played by Harry Potter and his schoolmates in the famed books by J.K. Rowling #AFPVertical"  [@AFP](/creator/x/AFP) on [X](/post/tweet/1944779922012270778) 2025-07-14 15:24:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements
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"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. Located in the Supe valley archaeologists believe Penico could hold insights into why the Caral civilization -- which flourished between 3000 and 1800 BC -- faded"
@AFP on X 2025-07-14 04:54:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.6K engagements
"Activists marching to Gaza say were stopped in Libya Egypt" @AFP on X 2025-06-14 17:30:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 211.9K 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 2025-07-10 14:20:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, 11.5K engagements
"Jonathan Milan won stage eight of the Tour de France in a mass bunch sprint on Saturday ahead of Wout van Aert and Kaden Groves. #TDFF2025 #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 19:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.3K engagements
"Iranian authorities carried out on Saturday a public execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a young girl the judiciary said. The victim's family had been involved in the legal proceedings and requested the public execution. Full story:" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 12:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.6K engagements
"More than XX suspected members of the Islamic State group have been arrested across Ethiopia state media said claiming they intended to carry out a "terror mission" ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 11:14:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 9835 engagements
"Liverpool are considering a blockbuster XXX million ($160 million) bid for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak despite the Magpies' desire to hold onto the Sweden star according to reports on Wednesday ➡ #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 11:56:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 10K engagements
"A congressional inquiry into the attempt to assassinateUS President Donald Trumpat a campaign rally a year ago on Sunday lamented "inexcusable" failures in the Secret Service's operations and response and called for more serious disciplinary action" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 16:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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, 11.4K engagements
"#BREAKING Russia says foreign minister Lavrov met Kim Jong Un in N. Korea" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 10:14:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 40.4K engagements
"More than 1300 State Department employees were fired Friday in a downsizing ordered by President Donald Trump and touted as cutting bloated government -- but which critics predict will hamstring US influence around the world" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 29K engagements
"More than XXX people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria's Sweida province a war monitor said Wednesday raising an earlier toll of XXX dead" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 15:57:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 9547 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, 12.2K engagements
"France and Equatorial Guinea to cross swords Tuesday at top UN court in a long-running dispute over a luxury Paris mansion confiscated by French authorities" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 07:01:53 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements
"🏏 England beat India by XX runs in the third Test at Lord's on Monday in the latest last-day thriller between the teams. Here is an #AFPSports looks at three key aspects from a gripping encounter in London ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 23:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9528 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, 14K engagements
"Small fuzzy and baring sharp teeth Chinese toymaker Pop Mart's Labubu monster dolls have taken over the world drawing excited crowds at international stores and adorning the handbags of celebrities such as Rihanna and Cher" @AFP on X 2025-06-20 16:02:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.6K engagements
"Bad Bunny's sweeping first concert of his three-month Puerto Rico residency was a night of palpable emotion for the megastar whose latest smash artistic endeavor brings his global stardom back to his roots. by @maggydonaldson" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 19:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements
"Unreleased Beyonce music stolen from car in Atlanta" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 04:32:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements
"#UPDATE Jannik Sinner is the quiet man of tennis who has become a big noise burnishing his legacy by winning his first Wimbledon title. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements
"France's defence relations with Australia have recovered after their 2021 bust-up over a major submarine contract the country's ambassador said Sunday" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 12:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements
"The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba has resigned amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging through garbage cans were only pretending to be poor and not truly desperate" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 13:50:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 9215 engagements
"VIDEO: 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. by @paulacramon" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 16:54:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K 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, 11K engagements
"Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on Friday of part of the Grand Canyon with the US National Park Service appealing for visitors to stay calm" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 18:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9156 engagements
"#UPDATE US President Donald Trump told Russia on Monday to end its Ukraine war within XX days or face massive new economic sanctions as he laid out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv via NATO" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 20:50:04 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements
"Tadej Pogacar won stage X of the Tour de France on Friday to retake the overall lead with a trademark swoop up the short steep slope of the Mur de Bretagne. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 15:30:15 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K 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, 12.3K engagements
"#BREAKING UN brings fuel into Gaza for first time in XXX days: spokesman" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 17:21:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 27.9K engagements
"VIDEO: 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 2025-07-15 19:44:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K 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 2025-07-09 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K engagements
"UPDATE Trump says the US will send Patriot air defense systems to Kyiv and hints at new sanctions on Russia once again voicing displeasure with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Moscow's war in Ukraine" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 02:06:22 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.9K engagements
"Apple TV+'s dark sci-fi office drama "Severance" on Tuesday led the contenders for the Emmy Awards television's version of the Oscars with a whopping XX nominations" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 17:21:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements
"France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash overall spending while also increasing defence expenses ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 15:59:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 8497 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, 9526 engagements
"US tech giant Nvidia will resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China after Washington pledged to remove licensing curbs" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 07:34:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements
"Monsters and memes: Labubu dolls ride China soft-power wave. Small fuzzy and baring sharp teeth Chinese toymaker Pop Mart's Labubu monster dolls have taken over the world drawing excited crowds at international stores and adorning the handbags of celebrities such as Rihanna and Cher" @AFP on X 2025-06-20 07:59:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements
"VIDEO: In Urk a fishing village in the northern Netherlands the sea has long been the lifeblood for families -- but has often taken loved ones in return. Advances in DNA technology and artificial intelligence are giving locals renewed hope" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 20:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K 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, 11.8K 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, 9585 engagements
"Yo Amano has been confined alone almost XX hours a day for over six years in Japan despite not having been convicted of the fraud charges against him: by @TomohiroOsaki" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 03:44:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.7K 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, 13K engagements
"#UPDATE Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff killing XXX people were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements
"South Africa's police minister suspended "with immediate effect" over corruption allegations" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 01:30:49 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements
"The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12000 kilometers (7400 miles) away in Chile and Argentina weather authorities in the South American countries said" @AFP on X 2020-01-06 22:55:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 5873 engagements
"#BREAKING Erdogan says 'Turkey has won' after Kurdish PKK fighters disarm" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 08:38:38 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.5K 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, 23.3K engagements
"Astronomers say they have observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 15:20:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements
"VIDEO: Cachimba like many of the dogs living in Chichen Itza is one of the furry guardians of the majestic Mayan city in southeastern Mexico. Some of the dogs arrived badly injured sick or malnourished at the site of the Kukulkan pyramid" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9869 engagements
"VIDEO: Afghanistan taxi drivers turn to handmade coolers to beat the heat As temperatures soar in southern Afghanistan taxi drivers in Kandahar have taken to installing handmade cooling systems on their vehicles to beat the heat" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 12:40:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 23.1K engagements
"A Norwegian lottery company on Monday apologised to 47000 crestfallen gamblers who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a lottery the firm blaming a currency conversion error ➡" @AFP on X 2025-06-30 14:10:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K 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, 13.4K engagements
"Skidding Nissan to halt production at Japanese plant" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 15:44:59 UTC 2.4M followers, X 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, 9274 engagements
"Tourist coins pose giant problem at Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 05:36:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 19.9K engagements
"Barcelona star Lamine Yamal is facing an investigation regarding the presence of a group of people with dwarfism as entertainers at his 18th birthday party last weekend Spain's Ministry of Social Rights told AFP on Tuesday ➡ #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 12:45:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.4K engagements
"#BREAKING Trump says Mexico EU to face XX% tariff from Aug 1" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 12:59:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 46.3K engagements
"VIDEO: Taiwanese army holds live-fire drills in face of China threat. Using advanced US-made M1A2T Abrams tanks Taiwan is holding its largest military drills -- the "Han Kuang" Exercise -- joined by a record mobilisation of reservists for XX days of training aimed at defending against a Chinese invasion" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 07:38:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K 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, 15.2K engagements
"A farm worker was in critical condition on Friday his family said after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on a legal cannabis farm in California that resulted in the arrests of XXX undocumented migrants and clashes with protesters" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 09:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, 11.1K 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, 13.1K engagements
"VIDEO After years in a Syrian detention camp housing relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq. But his joy was punctured by the harsh reality that he had to disown his sons accused of being jihadists 🎥" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 23:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, 17.8K engagements
"Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Tuesday he wanted to reduce the number of public holidays in France as part of a bid to tackle what he called the "curse" of his country's debt" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 17:54:09 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.4K engagements
"Russia pummelled Ukraine Wednesday with its largest missile and drone attack in more than three years of war hours after US President Donald Trump launched an expletive-filled attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 20:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 25.2K 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, 40.9K engagements
"The curtain comes down on the first edition of FIFA's expanded Club World Cup when reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain face Chelsea in Sunday's final at the MetLife Stadium with Donald Trump among those set to be in attendance. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 10:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.7K engagements
"Huawei probe blunder sparks EU parliament rules change. When lawmaker Giusi Princi learnt she was sought by Belgian authorities over a graft investigation linked to Huawei in May she was "dumbfounded". It soon turned out she had nothing to do with it" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 06:32:31 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.2K engagements
"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his full support on the war in Ukraine during talks on Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the North's state media said" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 00:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K 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
"Boos and applause for Trump at Club World Cup final. Trump experienced the agony and the ecstasy of football on Sunday as he was booed even as he joined in some high-spirited celebrations with champions Chelsea" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 02:35:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.3K engagements
"Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide didn't have 'client list': US government memo" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 08:15:18 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements
"Ada Hegerberg is back at the heart of the Norwegian national team as she prepares to face Italy in the quarter-finals of Women's Euro 2025 #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 17:00:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.3K engagements
"VIDEO: Israeli strikes kill XX Gaza civil defence says as truce talks stall Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least XX people including children at a water distribution point as ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas stalled" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 11:25:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K 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, 9617 engagements
"France will loan the Bayeux Tapestry to London's British Museum from September 2026 to June 2027 French President Emmanuel Macron told media at the start of a state visit to the UK. The loan of the embroidery depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England will be made in exchange for archaeological treasures from the UK's Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo site Macron told two French regional newspapers" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 14:43:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.9K 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, 13.5K 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, 17.5K engagements
"#BREAKING New Zealand beat France 43-17 in second Test #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 08:59:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements
"A leading humanitarian group criticised Greece after its government announced it would pause for three months all asylum hearings for people arriving in boats from North Africa to deter a migration surge from Libya ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 19:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K engagements
"Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 13:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.8K engagements
"Muhammadu Buhari who died Sunday left office in 2023 after serving two terms and made Nigerian political history as the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting president at the ballot box" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 19:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K 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, 12.7K engagements
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed appointing PM Denys Shmygal as defence minister in a significant political shakeup. Shmygal's 'vast experience will certainly be useful in the position of minister of defence of Ukraine' Zelensky said in his evening address" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 18:42:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.6K engagements
"#UPDATE Russia fired XXX drones and XX long-range missiles overnight Ukraine said on Saturday following record barrages by Moscow recently in its more than three-year invasion. "The enemy launched XXX aerial weapons" the Ukrainian air force said in a statement adding it had downed XXX drones and XX missiles" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 07:49:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.2K engagements
"An effigy of life jacket-wearing migrants and their boat burned atop a huge bonfire in Northern Ireland a potent example of how the province's deep sectarian divide has fanned and mixed with anti-immigrant hatred:" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 06:31:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.8K 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, 146.6K engagements
"More than 3000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year the United Nations said Friday" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 12:10:11 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements
"Humanoid robot says not aiming to 'replace human artists'. Unveiling a new portrait of King Charles this week artist Ai-Da described what inspired the layered and complex piece and insisted it had no plans to replace humans" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 07:58:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 9010 engagements
"#BREAKING Elon Musk says he has created new US political party" @AFP on X 2025-07-05 19:55:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 447.9K engagements
"VIDEO: K-pop's BTS are grossed out by them. A YouTuber ate them. Hikers plough through them: South Korea is dealing with a "lovebug" invasion that experts say highlights worsening climate change" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 22:21:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements
"German customs officers discover 1500 tarantulas hidden inside a shipment disguised as cookies" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 02:31:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.1K engagements
"#BREAKING Trump says Putin talking 'a lot of bullshit' on Ukraine" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 16:25:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 89.9K engagements
"A top European court said a Swiss court did not give South African runner Caster Semenya a fair trial over whether she should lower her testosterone levels to compete as a woman ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 20:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements
"#BREAKING Cambodia to implement military conscription in 2026 says PM" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 05:51:05 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.4K engagements
"Anthony Albanese arrived in Shanghai Saturday to kick off his second visit to China as Australian prime minister seeking to bolster recently stabilised trade ties even as geopolitical tensions remain high" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 11:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K 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, 13.5K engagements
"Major US ice cream makers have announced plans to phase out their use of artificial dyes following pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eliminate unnecessary additives from the American diet" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 00:01:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.2K engagements
"#BREAKING Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands on Tuesday lost a landmark court bid to hold the government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 05:58:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K 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, 108.5K engagements
"#BREAKING Trump says to impose XX% tariff on Brazil goods" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 20:25:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 36K engagements
"Liverpool are to retire Diogo Jota's number XX shirt in honour of the Portugal forward who was killed with his brother Andre Silva in a car crash this month" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 22:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements
"#BREAKING Iga Swiatek destroys Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 to win first #Wimbledon title #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 16:12:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.3K 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, 15.6K engagements
"Crystal Palace have been demoted from the Europa League to the Conference League by UEFA for a breach of multi-club ownership rules European football's governing body confirmed Friday. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 17:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 9024 engagements
"China says BRICS not seeking 'confrontation' after Trump tariff threat" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 09:15:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 1217 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, 9882 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, 27.1K engagements
"A divided US Supreme Court on Monday gave President Donald Trump the green light to resume dismantling the Education Department and conducting mass layoffs at the agency that oversees national education policy" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 21:17:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements
"England midfielder Jordan Henderson joined Premier League side Brentford on a free transfer on Tuesday following his exit from Dutch side Ajax ➡ #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 11:41:21 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K engagements
"VIDEO: 'Frogging' takes off in Borneo rainforest Kubah National Park is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual frog species. Visitors trek through the rainforest on the hunt for the exotic amphibians in a pastime dubbed "frogging"" @AFP on X 2025-07-06 11:24:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.9K 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, 12.4K 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. Some of the dogs arrived badly injured sick or malnourished at the site of the Kukulkan pyramid. Maria Guadalupe Espinosa director of the archaeological site says they now receive food vaccinations and "a lot of love"" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 00:51:59 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K 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, 9768 engagements
"#UPDATE Lavrov "was received" by Kim Jong Un Russia's foreign ministry said on Telegram posting a video of two men shaking hands and greeting with a hug" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 13:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K 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, 9641 engagements
"#UPDATE Iga Swiatek demolished Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 in the most one-sided women's #Wimbledon final for XXX years to win her sixth Grand Slam title. by @JohnMWeaver1 #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 17:25:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.4K 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, 19.3K engagements
"Sweden laid down a marker at Euro 2025 by confidently beating 10-woman Germany 4-1 on Saturday and topping Group C with a perfect nine points. #AFPSports #WEURO2025" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 23:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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, 28.6K engagements
"VIDEO Taiwan is conducting its largest annual military training initiative. The army conducts night drills to transport troops and supplies using the Taipei underground while anti-landing live-fire exercises in Penghu and Matsu regions simulate a sudden Chinese invasion 🎥" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 17:28:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K 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, 18.5K 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, 13.8K 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 Macron says freedom under greatest threat since 1945" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 17:35:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 72.9K 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
"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 2025-07-10 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, 10.3K engagements
"VIDEO: Two Brazilian nuns Sister Marizele and Sister Marisa have gone viral on social media after their energetic beatboxing and dancing during a religious program in Goiania in the Central-West region of Brazil. The sisters are members of the Copiosa Redencao congregation" @AFP on X 2025-05-31 09:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.4K 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 2025-07-08 11:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements
"VIDEO: Armed gang attacks Kenyan Human Rights Commission An armed gang attacks the headquarters of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission as it hosts a press conference calling for an end to state violence ahead of "Saba Saba Day" an annual commemoration of pro-democracy protests in the 1990s" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 11:30:42 UTC 2.4M followers, 107K 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
"#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, 29.2K engagements
"VIDEO: Shops restaurants vandalized in Mexico City anti-gentrification protest Hundreds turned out in the Colonia Roma neighborhood to denounce rising housing prices and the displacement of long-time Mexican residents from areas increasingly populated by foreigners" @AFP on X 2025-07-05 11:41:17 UTC 2.4M followers, 149.4K engagements
"First birthday of Thailand's pygmy hippo Moo Deng celebrated with four-day festival" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 05:01:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 18.8K engagements
"You're a TV star Harry: Potter series to debut in 2027" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 03:06:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements
"Cristiana Girelli shot Italy into the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Wednesday with a brace including a last-gasp winner in the Azzurre's historic 2-1 triumph over Norway" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 21:45:57 UTC 2.4M followers, 9843 engagements
"Iran unleashed a missile barrage on Israeli cities on Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic republic leaving streets in ruins and the death toll in Israel climbing by XX amid a spiralling air war ➡" @AFP on X 2025-06-16 11:13:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 25K engagements
"#BREAKING Iran says no nuclear talks if US insists it abandon enrichment: state media" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 16:43:20 UTC 2.4M followers, 34K engagements
"Erin Patterson has been found guilty in Australia of triple murder. The three victims ate a meal spiked with death cap mushrooms -- the world's deadliest fungi:" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 04:29:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 24.3K engagements
"Donald Trump said Tuesday the US Justice Department should release all "credible" information from its probe into notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein as he sought to douse a firestorm of criticism from his supporters @frankietaggart" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 21:40:52 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.6K engagements
"A raucous reception will greet Rory McIlroy as the British Open returns to Royal Portrush and Northern Ireland on Thursday for the first time since Shane Lowry's 2019 triumph. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:30:13 UTC 2.4M followers, 9385 engagements
"#UPDATE President Donald Trump accuses his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of talking 'bullshit' about Ukraine saying the United States would send Kyiv more weapons to defend itself" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 20:03:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K 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 and therefore air conditioning" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 9671 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, 42.9K engagements
"AFPs Francois Lo Presti photographs sailboats during the "Voiles de Legende" event in Dunkirk France. Forty 'exceptional sailboats' including some 'among the most beautiful in the world' are docked in Dunkirk (North) until July XX for the event 'Legendary Sails' for which the organizers expect nearly 600000 visitors over four days" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 04:44:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.7K 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 2025-07-10 15:20:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements
"VIDEO The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo group celebrate finding 'Grandchild No. 140' in Buenos Aires. Decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother the man was identified as one of Argentina's hundreds of 'stolen grandchildren'" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 23:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, XX engagements
"Hong Kong court hears appeals by democracy campaigners jailed for subversion last year" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 07:28:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements
"Liverpool manager Arne Slot paid tribute to Diogo Jota in an interview released on Sunday saying the Portugal forward was a "champion" in everything he did. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 15:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements
"VIDEO: Argentina's 140th 'stolen grandchild' is identified The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo activist group celebrate the finding of "Grandchild No. 140." in Buenos Aires. Nearly five decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother the man becomes the 140th person identified as one of Argentina's hundreds of "stolen grandchildren."" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 10:00:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 9832 engagements
"Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota and his brother were laid to rest on Saturday in their hometown just days after the pair died in a car crash that shocked the football world ➡ #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-05 12:00:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 28.5K engagements
"Donald Trump began his NATO summit journey in a F-bomb-laced fury. But what a difference a day makes. Hours later the US leader was a man transformed" @AFP on X 2025-06-25 17:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements
"VIDEO: Residents in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore wade through waist-deep water as the city floods after heavy downpours during the monsoon season" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 17:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.7K 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, 9398 engagements
"Mali's junta chief has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate renewable "as many times as necessary" and without election ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 18:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements
"The return of the prodigal Oasis brothers to Manchester on Friday -- on the second leg of their highly anticipated reunion tour -- has rekindled memories of the city's time as a cultural epicentre" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 12:00:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.1K 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, 22.8K engagements
"#BREAKING Trump threatens 'very severe tariffs' on Russia's trading partners if no Ukraine deal within XX days" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 15:51:39 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.8K engagements
"US-Palestinian Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was beaten to death on Friday in an Israeli settler attack in the occupied West Bank his family said on Saturday demanding that Washington launch a probe into his death. ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 12:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.1K 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, 13.1K engagements
"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday he had a "positive" meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of ASEAN talks in Malaysia where Washington's tariffs are in sharp focus" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 12:40:14 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.8K engagements
"#UPDATE NvidiaCEO Jensen Huang called China's open-source artificial intelligence a "catalyst for global progress" and hailed the country's innovation in the sector as he addressed an expo in Beijing on Wednesday ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 08:23:16 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K engagements
"VIDEO: Locals and tourists participate in the first bull run of the annual San Fermin festival in Spain's Pamplona. Six bulls led by some tame bullocks are released at X am local time to run around XXX metres through the city's streets" @AFP on X 2025-07-07 17:19:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.8K engagements
"US President Donald Trump spoke Friday of seeing devastation like he'd never before experienced as he toured parts of Texas hit by devastating flash floods that have left at least XXX people dead including dozens of children. by @dannyctkemp" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 21:12:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.8K 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
"The latest version of xAI's generative artificial intelligence assistant Grok X frequently consults owner Elon Musk's positions on topics before responding" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 18:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements
"VIDEO: King Charles Macron laud new 'entente' on French president's state visit King Charles III and Emmanuel Macron both hailed a new era in UK-France relations as the French president began a three-day formal visit to Britain #AFPVertical" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 13:51:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.1K engagements
"Thousands of Puerto Ricans gathered Friday evening as Bad Bunny's historic residency was set to launch in San Juan a concert series showcasing the island's pride and resilience:" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 02:16:24 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.9K engagements
"Ecuador's most notorious drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges a court in Quito said" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 23:15:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements
"AFPs Charly Triballeau photographs a 54-pound Martian meteorite named NWA 16788 the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth. The Martian meteorite will be auctioned off by Sotheby's New York on July 16" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 00:33:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.1K engagements
"The North Rim of the Grand Canyon has been closed to visitors for the remainder of the 2025 season due to wildfare damage and losses the National Park Service says" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 17:26:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 7050 engagements
"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade pact with Indonesia resulting in significant purchase commitments from the Southeast Asian country following negotiations to avoid steeper US tariffs" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 19:59:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.3K engagements
"#UPDATE Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the secretive country and key Moscow ally Russia's foreign ministry said" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 10:30:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.9K engagements
"President Donald Trump on Saturday targeted Mexico and the European Union with steep XX percent tariffs dramatically raisingthe stakes in already tense negotiations with two of the largest US trading partners. by @beiyis" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 21:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.6K engagements
"VIDEO: 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 2025-07-15 16:29:46 UTC 2.4M followers, 11K engagements
"#UPDATE Jannik Sinner downed Carlos Alcaraz 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon title gaining sweet revenge for his painful defeat in the French Open final. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 19:44:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 35.5K 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, 37.5K engagements
"Donald Trump will on Sunday showcase his unexpected attachment to a sport in which "America First" remains a dream for now. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 11:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K 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, 14.3K engagements
"VIDEO: 'Frogging' takes off in Borneo rainforest Kubah National Park is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual frog species. Visitors trek through the rainforest on the hunt for the exotic amphibians in a pastime dubbed "frogging"" @AFP on X 2025-07-06 15:00:02 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K 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 2025-07-09 10:40:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.2K 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, 18.5K engagements
"The US ambassador to Israel on Tuesday demanded an aggressive investigation and consequences after settlers beat to death a Palestinian-American in rare public pressure against the ally by President Donald Trump's administration" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 21:20:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K 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, 24.4K engagements
"Ten people have been rescued after Yemen's Huthis sank a cargo ship an EU naval force said Thursday with three killed and XX missing in one of the rebel group's deadliest Red Sea attacks" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 11:00:27 UTC 2.4M followers, 17.9K engagements
"Scientists at the seal rehabilitation centre in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda say only five percent of cubs survive in the wild where they also face pollution and low fish stocks because of overfishing. The Baltic Sea which is shared by the EU and Russia now rarely freezes over because of climate change depriving seals of sanctuaries to rear their cubs" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 12:50:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements
"Gisele Pelicot who became a feminist icon by publicly testifying over the mass rapes she endured and rapper-turned-fashion designer Pharrell Williams were among XXX people awarded France's top civic honour on Sunday" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 11:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements
"#UPDATE US President Donald Trump tells Russia to resolve its Ukraine war within XX days or face massive new economic sanctions as he lays out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 16:23:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements
"Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action following a second consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 22:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.5K engagements
"Survivors of Cambodia's four-year genocide on Saturday told AFP they were "thrilled" that three sites of their lives' biggest horror - where the Khmer Rouge regime perpetrated genocide XX years ago - has gained UNESCO recognition. Full story:" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 10:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 16.4K engagements
"#BREAKING Ukraine says Russia fired XXX drones and missiles overnight" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 07:39:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 42.2K engagements
"The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 targeting mostly ethnic Chinese in the country will be scrubbed from the text:" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 02:36:04 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.7K engagements
"VIDEO: Sandbanks are starting to appear in France's Loire River which runs through chateau country -- a consequence of a lack of rainfall and intense heat in June and July" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 20:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 20.3K 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, 12.7K engagements
"New Zealand head coach Scott Robertson was pleased with a "ruthless" All Blacks display Saturday as an under-strength France were crushed 43-17 in the second Test in Wellington to clinch the series with a game to spare. #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 22:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.1K engagements
"A farm worker has died after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on alegal cannabis farm in California his family said on Saturday" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 10:30:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements
"Fast-spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of part of the Grand Canyon with the US National Park Service ordering visitors and residents away from its northern rim:" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 05:28:28 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K engagements
"Elon Musk's Grok inks Pentagon deal. Grok has rarely been out of the headlines for its offensive gaffes including spewing Hitler-supporting rhetoric and antisemitic tropes" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 00:29:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.2K 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 2025-07-16 14:01:50 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.4K engagements
"Donald Trump has long sung the praises of Russia's 'strong leader' Vladimir Putin. With his Monday announcement of new arms for Ukraine via Europe and tariff threats on Russia Trump's bromance with Putin has hit a new low -- but it may not be over" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 23:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements
"Southeast Turkey where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand -- even after members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 21:00:01 UTC 2.4M followers, 17K 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 and run cables to Christine Shorty's house -- finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation the largest in the United States where more than 10000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 07:03:48 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.9K 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, 12K engagements
"VIDEO: Ukraine covers roads in anti-drone netting as attacks intensify Working along a road in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region Denis and his team of military engineers are installing netting the latest measure to combat the waves of Russian drones targetting the country" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 11:00:46 UTC 2.4M followers, 13K 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
"'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 02:55:58 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.6K 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
"VIDEO: South Korea battles 'lovebug' invasion K-pop's BTS are grossed out by them. A YouTuber ate them. Hikers plough through them: South Korea is dealing with a "lovebug" invasion that experts say highlights worsening climate change" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 11:40:35 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.4K engagements
"Infographic on the Club World Cup 2025 final between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on July XX #AFPSports" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 14:10:12 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements
"VIDEO: Egyptian women reclaim belly dance from stigma As belly dancing gains popularity internationally young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of their artistic heritage" @AFP on X 2025-07-10 08:20:26 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements
"VIDEO: Lithuania works to save Baltic seals as ice sheets recede A rehabilitation center is nurturing Baltic grey seals back to health before releasing them into the wild. Climate change pollution and overfishing are leaving the population highly vulnerable #AFPVertical" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 11:05:54 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.5K engagements
"Agamise Cheranfant hides as soon as he finishes his work at a banana plantation in the Dominican Republic. Like many others he is Haitian undocumented and lives in constant fear of deportation" @AFP on X 2025-07-04 23:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 15.1K engagements
"Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks -- to bring love or luck -- is damaging the world-famous wonder Read more 👇" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 07:58:41 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.3K engagements
"Market panic deepens as China retaliates against Trump tariffs"
@AFP on X 2025-07-15 10:38:15 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements
"Delay in fully opening Egypts Grand Museum puts tourism hopes on hold" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 07:46:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.3K engagements
"#BREAKING Hamas says agreed to release XX hostages as part of Gaza truce talks" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 19:52:51 UTC 2.4M followers, 38K engagements
"#UPDATE President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a XX percent tariff on key US trading partners Mexico and the European Union ramping up pressure for deals in his trade wars" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 13:01:25 UTC 2.4M followers, 22.4K engagements
"Greece will halt for three months all asylum hearings for migrants arriving on boats from North Africa the prime minister said on Wednesday amid a migrant surge from Libya" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 11:57:40 UTC 2.4M followers, 21.3K engagements
"#BREAKING Fuel to Air India jet engines cut off moments before crash: probe" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 21:26:33 UTC 2.4M followers, 33.4K engagements
"Manchester City sign kit deal worth CRAZY money" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 13:57:20 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements
"#BREAKING June was hottest recorded in western Europe says EU monitor" @AFP on X 2025-07-09 02:04:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 30.7K 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, 134.8K engagements
"US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Saturday she had ordered charges to be dropped against a doctor accused of destroying Covid-19 jabs and issuing fake vaccination certificates" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 08:37:19 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.7K engagements
"Pentagon chief orders withdrawal of 2000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 01:04:44 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.5K engagements
"Trump says US will send Ukraine Patriot air defense systems" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 05:10:24 UTC 2.4M followers, XX engagements
"The X account of Sesame Street's Elmo a beloved children's TV character shared antisemitic and anti-Donald Trump posts after being hacked. The nonprofit behind the show says an unidentified hacker was responsible and that the account has been secured" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 17:07:23 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.1K engagements
"Iran said Saturday its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency "will take on a new form" expressing a desire for a diplomatic solution to resolve concerns over its nuclear program" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 18:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements
"Soft power. K-pop megaband BTS is back from military service and their international fandom -- long known for its progressive activism -- is celebrating by rallying behind a cause: adoptees from South Korea" @AFP on X 2025-06-17 07:48:47 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K 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 following "a downward spiral" in recent years" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 14:41:03 UTC 2.4M followers, 9370 engagements
"Three notorious Cambodian torture and execution sites used by the Khmer Rouge regime to perpetrate genocide XX years ago have been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List" @AFP on X 2025-07-11 17:23:43 UTC 2.4M followers, 13.8K engagements
"Thousands of Afghans who worked with the UK government and their families were brought to Britain in a secret programme after a 2022 data breach put their lives at risk a minister revealed on Tuesday ➡" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 14:10:08 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.6K engagements
"UPDATE Greece's culture ministry on Tuesday ordered a partial closure of the Acropolis the country's top monument to protect visitors amid heatwave conditions. Temperatures in the country are expected to reach XX Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday with a maximum of XX Celsius in Athens" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 07:26:37 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.6K engagements
"Greece's top archaeological monument the Acropolis was partially shut Tuesday as part of emergency measures to protect visitors and workers around the country during a four-day heatwave" @AFP on X 2025-07-08 10:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 11.5K engagements
"VIDEO: Two Brazilian nuns Sister Marizele and Sister Marisa have gone viral on social media after their energetic beatboxing and dancing during a religious program in Goiania in the Central-West region of Brazil. The sisters are members of the Copiosa Redencao congregation" @AFP on X 2025-05-30 15:40:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.1K engagements
"Spreading Grand Canyon fire destroys historic lodge" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 01:16:06 UTC 2.4M followers, 12K 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
"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, 18.2K engagements
"'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure" @AFP on X 2025-07-16 12:50:18 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.7K engagements
""Superman" the latest big-budget action film featuring the iconic DC superhero powered to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend with $XXX million in ticket sales industry estimates showed" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 18:45:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 14.4K engagements
"French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday declared July XX a French day of national commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus a French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 in a notorious act of antisemitism. The first would be celebrated in 2026" @AFP on X 2025-07-12 14:00:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.6K engagements
"#UPDATE Syrian government forces entered the majority Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday the interior ministry said aiming to end clashes with Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly XXX people" @AFP on X 2025-07-15 07:24:54 UTC 2.4M followers, 10.8K 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, 15.4K 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, 12.8K 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, X engagements
"'Inexcusable' failures led to Trump assassination attempt: Senate report" @AFP on X 2025-07-13 17:04:20 UTC 2.4M followers, XXX engagements
"VIDEO: Belgium conjure up win at quidditch world cup Known officially as quadball since 2022 quidditch was originally inspired by the game played by Harry Potter and his schoolmates in the famed books by J.K. Rowling #AFPVertical" @AFP on X 2025-07-14 15:24:00 UTC 2.4M followers, 12.4K engagements