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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18m

🇰🇵 ⛸️ VIDEO: International figure skaters perform in North Korea

Figure skaters from Russia, China, and North Korea perform in the Pyongyang International Figure Skating Festival, held in North Korea's capital to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇮🇱 🇵🇸 VIDEO: Israel marks October 7 anniversary as talks held to end Gaza war

Israel marks the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack, as Hamas and Israeli negotiators hold indirect talks to end the two-year war in Gaza under a US-proposed peace plan.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

Japan bear encounters.

AFP Infographic chart showing bear attacks in Japan since 2014, according to government data, and the ranges of the Asiatic black bear and brown bear in the country

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

Agitated bear injures two in Japanese supermarket, separately a man is found dead in a suspected mauling

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

Trump warns some federal workers placed on enforced leave during the government shutdown may not receive back pay if he deems that they do not "deserve" the money

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

Snakebite surge as Bangladesh hit by record rains.

Bangladesh has seen nearly 15,000 snakebite admissions this year, with 84 deaths reported so far

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has been issued an 18-month suspension after missing three drug tests

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3h

Jaguar with gunshot wounds rescued from river in Brazil.

A wounded jaguar, reportedly injured by gunfire, is rescued by Brazilian military police and members of SEPET — the Animal Protection Secretariat for the Amazonas, in the waters of Rio Negro, Brazil

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

NBA returns to the lucrative China market this week following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

Gold prices broke $4,000 for the first time Wednesday.

Investors piled into the safe haven due to worries over the US government shutdown and concerns that a tech-fuelled rally may have gone too far, fanning talk of an asset bubble
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 5h

Australian police foil alleged organised crime hit by a so-called kill team near a Sydney daycare facility

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6h

'Veggie burgers' face grilling in EU parliament.

As increasing numbers of Europeans turn towards vegetarian and vegan diets, many livestock farmers -- and the politicians who represent them -- see plant-based foods that mimic meat as a threat
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 7h

In fiery hearing, US senators accuse Attorney General Pam Bondi of transforming the Justice Department into a tool of President Trump's efforts to target his perceived enemies

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

Dolly Parton's sister asks fans to pray for the American country singer, who has postponed several concerts due to health issues

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

On Trump's orders, 200 troops from Texas arrive in Illinois.

Trump suggested last week that American cities be used as "training grounds" for US military forces

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17h

The EU unveiled proposals on Tuesday to double tariffs on foreign steel -- taking a leaf from US President Donald Trump's book in a bid to protect the bloc's struggling industry from cheap Chinese competition ➡️ u.afp.com/SmQa

File photo shows an employee working at the Thyssenkrupp steel plant in Duisburg, western Germany, on July 4, 2025

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17h

Emmanuel Macron's first prime minister and one-time ally Edouard Philippe on Tuesday urged the cornered French head of state to resign in a shock call that compounded an escalating political crisis ➡️ u.afp.com/SmQu

File photo shows France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Mayor of Le Havre and former prime minister Edouard Philippe at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the World War II liberation of the port city of Le Havre, northern France, on September 12, 2024

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19h

Spanish emergency services were scrambling to find four people who went missing after a building under construction in Madrid city centre collapsed on Tuesday, injuring several workers, authorities said ➡️ u.afp.com/SmQs

Police and emergency service workers near the site of a building undergoing refurbishment which collapsed in Madrid on October 7, 2025

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 20h

VIDEO: 🇵🇸 🇦🇺 Australian doctors in Gaza recount horrific scenes of bloodshed and trauma

Two doctors working in Gaza have recounted "slaughterhouse" scenes in the devastated Palestinian territory, describing children torn apart by Israeli bombardments and hospitals overwhelmed by the dead and wounded

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21h

🇨🇦 A Canadian theme park said it will have no choice but to euthanize 30 beluga whales if the federal government does not provide emergency funding by the end of Tuesday.
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Beluga whales are photographed underwater in the murky waters of the Churchill River near Hudson Bay outside Churchill, northern Canada.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21h

🇪🇺 Championed by green advocates as much as mindful eaters, the days of plant-based "steaks" and "veggie burgers" may be numbered under plans up for a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 22h

🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Two years after Hamas gunmen attacked the Nova festival in southern Israel, the desert site stands as both grave and shrine, where the living come to mourn the dead.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 22h

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon in a six-day trip beginning late November, his first voyage since becoming head of the Catholic Church, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 22h

🏅 Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said.
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