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Conspiracy theory emerges about Nashville school assailant’s shoes

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Four tips for detecting AI-generated images

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'No information about my son': El Salvador's state of emergency over gang violence drags on

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Where was this video filmed of a mob chasing down police?

Videos showing Nigerians claiming to destroy their passports have emerged online in the wake of general elections in the country.

Nigerians share videos tearing up passports to protest election results

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MH370: Why these two videos don't show what happened to the lost plane

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Why these images do not prove that Vladimir Putin sent a 'body double' to Mariupol

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After six months of protests, Iranian women without headscarves has become the 'norm'

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Truth or Fake 2023: image verification in the age of AI and video games

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MH370: Why these two videos don't show what happened to the lost plane

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Why these images do not prove that Vladimir Putin sent a 'body double' to Mariupol

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No, the Ukrainian president did not write a book called 'Mein Kampf'

A Twitter account claiming to be the media outlet Afghanistan International has posted numerous pieces of pro-Taliban disinformation that serve to undermine opposition groups in the country.

How fake media accounts in Afghanistan are used to push Taliban propaganda

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INVESTIGATION

Why is there a Chinese police car patrolling the streets of Douala, Cameroon ?

A stray bullet fired on March 14, 2023 by armed members of Palestinian movement Fatah caused a transformer to explode in the street in Hebron. Dozens of people were gathered in the street ahead of the announcement of the winner of the student elections at the local polytechnic university.

Celebratory gunfire hits a transformer in Hebron: ‘We came close to a horrendous disaster’

Posts circulating online since March 7 claim that these cameras in a Walmart in London, Ontario, Canada are being used to control what people buy. The store, however, claims that the cameras are being used to monitor if the products on the shelves are well-stocked.
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Are there really cameras controlling what people buy in Canada? Not exactly

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EU-made ammunition used in Iran repression: Iranians demand answers

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How EU-made shotgun cartridges ended up being used to repress protests in Iran

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Haiti: In the grip of the gangs

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How Iran’s security forces are shooting to kill with ‘non-combat’ shotgun shells

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Meet the social housing activist campaigning for tenants' rights in the UK

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‘They spit on us’: What’s really going on in the El Ouardia migrant centre in Tunis

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The growing xenophobic violence against sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia

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People displaced by Syria earthquake loot aid supplies after baby dies in camp

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How the 'Sonnedix Gabon' Ponzi scheme reeled in and scammed investors

These pig heads were placed in front of the Daegu Muslim student community's temporary prayer site in late 2022 and are still there. Photo taken on January 11, 2023.

Islamophobia: Pig heads left outside a mosque in South Korea

On January 2, a crowd with batons descended on the Sacred Heart Catholic church in a village in the Narayanpur region of central India.

India: Mob attacks church in a wave of anti-Christian violence

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Pollution, development and negligence: Dakar coastline victim of urbanisation

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Thousands of Rohingya left homeless after yet another fire breaks out in Bangladesh refugee camp

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A moment of grace in war-torn Yemen: Tribal chief forgives man involved in son’s killing

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12-year-old Russian girl released after interrogation over anti-war drawing

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Mob attacks two Tunis shelters for LGBTQ people from sub-Saharan Africa

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