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Beware of fake videos circulating that claim to show a Chinese rocket

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Did a mosque appear in Algeria after a sandstorm?

Herlín Odicio, president of the Cacataibo native communities’ federation and Berlín Diques, president of Orau

Violence against Peru’s indigenous communities surges as drug traffickers move in

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'There isn’t a single stretcher left' in Iran as 'apocalyptic' wave of Covid-19 hits

Arafat Jibril Barki is a lawyer and president of the Oromo Human Rights Organisation
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Persecuted Ethiopian refugees risk their lives to return home from Yemen

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Viral video claims Indians ill with Covid-19 but they’re actually victims of a gas leak

Screenshots of videos showing three transgender women forced to strip

Videos of transgender women beaten and forced to strip in Benin go viral

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Truth or Fake : How to verify a video of Barack Obama in 1 minute

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Indigenous leaders in Brazil raise the alarm about widespread illegal mining

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Investigation
Several images shared in WhatsApp group in Senegal over the past few months show large numbers of young people leaving Senegal to make a dangerous attempt to reach the Canary Islands by pirogue (Screengrab of videos sent to the France 24 Observers team).
SENEGAL

How young Senegalese are making desperate journeys to Spain’s Canary Islands

Nearly every day, crowds gather in front of currency exchange offices in Iran.

Violence, suicide and addiction: an unprecedented economic crisis plunges Iranian society into chaos

Syrian mercenaries exchange fire with Armenian soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh at the beginning of October. In the centre, a young Syrian films himself on the frontline during a bombardment near Horadiz. (Screengrabs.)

Videos shared on social media show Syrians sent to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh

The image on the left shows a scorched home in Cabo Delgado. The image on the right shows people fleeing Mocimboa da Praia, which was attacked by insurgents on June 27. These photos were published by the collaborative media site Pinnacle News.

Thousands flee Islamist insurgents in northern Mozambique

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Rohingya refugees fight to remove deadly barbed wire at Bangladesh camps

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Canary Islands migrant pressure continues, living conditions 'shameful'

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INVESTIGATION

'Rob Petrosian', the Trump supporter impersonating a White House reporter

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Warning, this video has nothing to do with recent rebel offensives in Chad

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This video of people with disabilities being "forcibly" vaccinated doesn't tell the whole story

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Truth or Fake: was France's President Macron booed in the snow?

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DEBUNKED

This photo of the 'smallest bird in the world' actually shows a work of art

Farmer-herder violence in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria in February, 2021

Farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria’s Middle Belt could ‘blow up into a civil war’

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