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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1m

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Gaza's civil defence agency on Saturday said more than 500,000 people have returned to Gaza City since a ceasefire took effect the previous day.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11m

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in "the Middle East" during a phone call Saturday, saying if Trump could stop one war, "others can be stopped as well".
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21m

🚵 Tadej Pogacar won the cycling Monument Il Lombardia for a fifth time in as many years on Saturday, equalling Fausto Coppi's record of victories in the season-ending race.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 31m

🇨🇮 Seeking a fourth term in the country’s upcoming presidential election, Ivorian leader Alassane Ouattara launched his campaign on Saturday at a rally in the city of Daloa.
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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara speaks at a campaign rally in Daloa, on October 11, 2025

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 41m

🇵🇭 Dazed survivors of a pair of major earthquakes in the southern Philippines awoke on Saturday to scenes of devastation, after hundreds of aftershocks rocked the region overnight.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 51m

🇺🇸 Former US president Joe Biden is undergoing radiation and hormone therapy to fight prostate cancer that was revealed in May, a spokesperson said Saturday.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Residents of China's capital city have expressed indifference and defiance when asked by AFP about the latest threat by US President Donald Trump to impose blistering new tariffs on the country.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Hamas's disarmament as part of US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is "out of the question", a Hamas official has told AFP
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People walk past destroyed buildings in the centre of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2025

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇲🇽 Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇩🇪 VIDEO: Bavarian police join counter-terror drills amid rising drone threats

Dozens of Bavarian police officers take part in a counter-terrorism exercise involving police and armed forces amid growing concern over drone threats across Europe.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

🇹🇭 🇰🇭 VIDEO: Thai influencer blasts spooky sounds into Cambodia

The sounds of people screaming and eerie music echo across the Cambodian-Thai border, as a land dispute between the two southeast Asian neighbours simmers. The stunt was carried out by Thai nationalist influencer Guntouch Pongpaiboonwet

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

🇪🇸 VIDEO: Spain's Benidorm embraces its mass tourism model

Fifty years after General Francisco Franco's death, Benidorm still clings to the mass tourism model it pioneered under his dictatorship, even as anti-tourism protests sweep other Spanish holiday hotspots.