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French prosecutors probe Al-Fayeds over sex trafficking
AFP, Published on 27/02/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - He traded on the glamour of owning Harrods, the Paris Ritz and luxury yachts, but Mohamed Al-Fayed was at the centre of a dark web of alleged abuse, say French lawyers for women who liken him to US sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump embraces AI deepfakes in political messaging
AFP, Published on 15/01/2026
» WASHINGTON - From playing football in the Oval Office to sipping cocktails on a sun lounger in Gaza and attacking critics from a fighter jet, Donald Trump has become the first US president to deploy AI-generated imagery as a key tool of political communications.
Italy probes US tourist's motorboat death
AFP, Published on 05/08/2023
» ROME: The skipper of a motorboat which crashed into a sailboat off Italy's Amalfi coast, killing a US tourist, is being investigated for suspected manslaughter, a chief prosecutor said on Saturday.
The flying hospital bringing Ukraine's wounded west
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» ON BOARD A BOEING 737 MEDEVAC PLANE (POLAND) - You can see the pain held just in check in the faces of Ukraine's war wounded as they are evacuated in a flying hospital.
Across globe, women battle 'gendered disinformation'
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Fake photos showing Ukraine's first lady sunbathing topless, incorrect video subtitles defaming Pakistani feminists for "blasphemy", slow-motion clips falsely depicting "drunk" female politicians -- a barrage of disinformation targets women in the public eye.
'Just lower the water!' Flood fatigue in the village that halted Russia
AFP, Published on 06/03/2023
» DEMYDIV, Ukraine: More than a year after the Ukrainian military flooded his village to halt Russia's lightning march on Kyiv, Ivan Kukuruza's basement is still submerged and his patience is running out.
Ukrainians look to Kyiv beaches as respite from war
AFP, Published on 04/07/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ivan Sukhanov and his family used to holiday by the Black Sea. This year, the family from Kyiv dreamt of travelling to Egypt. Then Russian troops invaded.
'Gone to hell': The battle to save Europe's oldest lake
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» OHRID (REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA) - Dimitar Pendoski marches to the end of a rickety walkway, skips around sunbathing youngsters and sweeps back a tarpaulin protecting his empty lakeside restaurant, recently closed by officials under pressure from UNESCO.
Porn mogul Larry Flynt dead at 78
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» LOS ANGELES: US porn mogul Larry Flynt, best known as the publisher of Hustler Magazine and a self-styled free-speech champion, died in Los Angeles Wednesday aged 78, according to media reports.
French minister defends 'precious' topless rights after sunbathers warned
AFP, Published on 26/08/2020
» PARIS - France's interior minister on Tuesday defended the right of women to sunbathe topless on beaches, after a police warning for a group who stripped off on the southern coast sparked a social media outcry.