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@afpnews.bsky.social journalist covering France. Views my own. Reposts not endorsements. Email: alice.hackman@afp.com
Martin Parr says many of us are too wealthy. My interview for @en.afp.com as he visited Paris to promote his excellently titled autobiography "Utterly Lazy and Inattentive". (It's a fun read.) www.france24.com/en/live-news...
'We're all too rich,' says photo legend Martin Parr
British documentary photographer Martin Parr says the world has never been more in need of satire like that in his images because many people are too wealthy and their lifestyle is unsustainable.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Martin Parr says many of us are too wealthy. My interview for @en.afp.com as he visited Paris to promote his excellently titled autobiography "Utterly Lazy and Inattentive". (It's a fun read.) www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Young Iraqis are signing up to fight for Russia in Ukraine, lured by the promise of money. @en.afp.com's @robahus.bsky.social reports. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Iraq's social media mercenaries dying for Russia
Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad's last TikTok post was in a field carved up with heavy vehicle tracks in what appeared to be Ukraine. Smoke was rising behind…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Young Iraqis are signing up to fight for Russia in Ukraine, lured by the promise of money. @en.afp.com's @robahus.bsky.social reports. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
The US administration's decision to destroy nearly $10 million worth of women's contraception products has sparked outrage. They are reportedly planned to be incinerated in France. @afp.com shorturl.at/lPzMH
US plan to destroy contraceptives sparks uproar
The US administration's decision to destroy nearly $10 million worth of women's contraception products has sparked furious condemnation from doctors and aid groups, who have slammed the move as a wast...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The US administration's decision to destroy nearly $10 million worth of women's contraception products has sparked outrage. They are reportedly planned to be incinerated in France. @afp.com shorturl.at/lPzMH
When Moscow invaded Ukraine, Pavel Talankin, a staff member at a secondary school in Russia, was ordered to film patriotic lessons, songs and morning drills. It was so depressing, he wanted to quit. @afp.com's Anna Smolchenko writes: shorturl.at/aDiAA
June 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
When Moscow invaded Ukraine, Pavel Talankin, a staff member at a secondary school in Russia, was ordered to film patriotic lessons, songs and morning drills. It was so depressing, he wanted to quit. @afp.com's Anna Smolchenko writes: shorturl.at/aDiAA
Olha Kyrylenko, 26, went to cover the front lines for the first time shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, and noticed that she was far from the only woman. @afpnews.bsky.social shorturl.at/6C9SA
June 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Olha Kyrylenko, 26, went to cover the front lines for the first time shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, and noticed that she was far from the only woman. @afpnews.bsky.social shorturl.at/6C9SA
Director Tarik Saleh said he decided that, if he was going to address Egyptian politics head on in his latest film, it needed to include Egypt's current president. @afpnews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4r4br49c
May 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Director Tarik Saleh said he decided that, if he was going to address Egyptian politics head on in his latest film, it needed to include Egypt's current president. @afpnews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4r4br49c
Thai film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, who has won a top prize in Cannes, recruited a major influencer for his off-the-wall gay comedy with a political punch. tinyurl.com/mt3fz9vw @afpnews.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Thai film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, who has won a top prize in Cannes, recruited a major influencer for his off-the-wall gay comedy with a political punch. tinyurl.com/mt3fz9vw @afpnews.bsky.social
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‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf for @nytimes.com, is the #WPPh2025 World Press Photo of the Year. Watch as Samar shares the story behind this image: youtu.be/j1mYna_audE?si=PXxljU7yDAxJxotP
World Press Photo of the Year: Samar Abu Elouf | 2025 Contest
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April 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf for @nytimes.com, is the #WPPh2025 World Press Photo of the Year. Watch as Samar shares the story behind this image: youtu.be/j1mYna_audE?si=PXxljU7yDAxJxotP
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The #WPPh2025 Photo of the Year is ‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf, for @nytimes.com. The jury was moved by this portrait of a Palestinian boy which speaks to the devastating long-term costs of war on civilians. worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2025/Samar-Abu-Elouf/1
April 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The #WPPh2025 Photo of the Year is ‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf, for @nytimes.com. The jury was moved by this portrait of a Palestinian boy which speaks to the devastating long-term costs of war on civilians. worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2025/Samar-Abu-Elouf/1
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A baby girl has become the first in the UK to be born from a womb transplant, after her aunt donated her uterus to her mother, a London hospital said Tuesday.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A baby girl has become the first in the UK to be born from a womb transplant, after her aunt donated her uterus to her mother, a London hospital said Tuesday.
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Sylvie Eberena, 44, became French weightlifting champion in her amateur category last year, but now she fears she will no longer be able to compete because she wears a headscarf. My story for @afpnews.bsky.social: rb.gy/u1diaf
April 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Sylvie Eberena, 44, became French weightlifting champion in her amateur category last year, but now she fears she will no longer be able to compete because she wears a headscarf. My story for @afpnews.bsky.social: rb.gy/u1diaf
France's education ministry asked a cartoonist to give "Beauty and the Beast" a 21st-century makover. Then it decided his version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was inappropriate for tweens. @afpnews.bsky.social shorturl.at/VxSym
March 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
France's education ministry asked a cartoonist to give "Beauty and the Beast" a 21st-century makover. Then it decided his version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was inappropriate for tweens. @afpnews.bsky.social shorturl.at/VxSym
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'Roads full of corpses': terrified Alawites in Syria flee attacks
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'Roads full of corpses': terrified Alawites in Syria flee attacks
For two days, Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, pursuing members of Syria's Alawite minority.
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March 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
'Roads full of corpses': terrified Alawites in Syria flee attacks
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AFP’s Rouba el-Husseini rummages through the mountain bunkers, luxury villas, and secret archives of the Fourth Division, Maher al-Assad’s military-commercial empire.
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'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry
From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry. Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Divi...
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March 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
AFP’s Rouba el-Husseini rummages through the mountain bunkers, luxury villas, and secret archives of the Fourth Division, Maher al-Assad’s military-commercial empire.
www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @afpnews.bsky.social
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Bashar al-Assad's feared younger brother Maher and his cronies bled Syria dry, while some of their foot soldiers struggled to feed their families. An eye-opening read by @afpfr.bsky.social's @roba-hus.bsky.social: u.afp.com/S3qV
March 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Bashar al-Assad's feared younger brother Maher and his cronies bled Syria dry, while some of their foot soldiers struggled to feed their families. An eye-opening read by @afpfr.bsky.social's @roba-hus.bsky.social: u.afp.com/S3qV
Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise @afpfr.bsky.social's @laura-r-chung.bsky.social reports: shorturl.at/GYVIR
Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
A new ‘golden passport’ scheme aims to raise funds to relocate people inland as climate change raises sea levels
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February 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise @afpfr.bsky.social's @laura-r-chung.bsky.social reports: shorturl.at/GYVIR
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‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced
* More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons…
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February 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
A French surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, mostly children, practised right up until his retirement despite a previous conviction and colleagues sounding the alarm. His trial starts on Monday. @afpnews.bsky.social's Anais Llobet writes: rb.gy/8dtk6z
February 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A French surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, mostly children, practised right up until his retirement despite a previous conviction and colleagues sounding the alarm. His trial starts on Monday. @afpnews.bsky.social's Anais Llobet writes: rb.gy/8dtk6z
France seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck on its way from Spain to Italy. One of them is thought to have belonged to a plesiosaurus at least 66 million years old: tinyurl.com/3yhsjaam
February 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
France seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck on its way from Spain to Italy. One of them is thought to have belonged to a plesiosaurus at least 66 million years old: tinyurl.com/3yhsjaam
French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from X to rival social platforms. @afpfr.bsky.social's @u-koltermann.bsky.social writes: tinyurl.com/4hvfdy9n
French researchers aim to ease X refugees' path with 'HelloQuitX'
French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk's X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.
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January 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from X to rival social platforms. @afpfr.bsky.social's @u-koltermann.bsky.social writes: tinyurl.com/4hvfdy9n
'Protect our people': Armed Syrian volunteers watch over Damascus -- @AFP's @Maher_mon reports shorturl.at/N6Rqh
January 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
'Protect our people': Armed Syrian volunteers watch over Damascus -- @AFP's @Maher_mon reports shorturl.at/N6Rqh
'Where are our children?': @afpfr.bsky.social's Laure Al-Khoury reports on Syrians desperately searching for their disappeared loved ones after Assad's fall in Damascus: tinyurl.com/wpye5j6m Picture inside the Saydnaya prison by Sameer Al-Doumy.
December 12, 2024 at 12:50 PM
'Where are our children?': @afpfr.bsky.social's Laure Al-Khoury reports on Syrians desperately searching for their disappeared loved ones after Assad's fall in Damascus: tinyurl.com/wpye5j6m Picture inside the Saydnaya prison by Sameer Al-Doumy.
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For @financialtimes.com, Sarah Dadouche and Raya Jalabi sit in on meetings between ministry staff in Damascus and their increasingly exasperated new bosses from Tahrir al-Sham. www.ft.com/content/7efc...
December 11, 2024 at 11:29 PM
For @financialtimes.com, Sarah Dadouche and Raya Jalabi sit in on meetings between ministry staff in Damascus and their increasingly exasperated new bosses from Tahrir al-Sham. www.ft.com/content/7efc...
Her husband orchestrating her sexual abuse by strangers could have broken her. But by standing up to her abusers in court, France's Gisele Pelicot has become a feminist champion. @afpfr.bsky.social's Olivier Lucazeau writes: tinyurl.com/vpzpwzmv
December 12, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Her husband orchestrating her sexual abuse by strangers could have broken her. But by standing up to her abusers in court, France's Gisele Pelicot has become a feminist champion. @afpfr.bsky.social's Olivier Lucazeau writes: tinyurl.com/vpzpwzmv