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    Mar 28, 2019
    For more than 30 years, plastic phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield have been washing up on French beaches. The mystery is now solved: a shipping container which washed up during a storm in the 1980s was found in a hidden sea cave 📷 Fred Tanneau
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    Nov 13, 2021
    Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered "Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard" at a member of a far-right group u.afp.com/wJH2
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    Apr 15, 2019
    #BREAKING Notre-Dame's main structure is "saved and preserved" after fire, says Paris fire official
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    Aug 8, 2025
    Indonesia cracks down on a viral pirate flag that is spreading as a symbol of political protest u.afp.com/SMB3
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    May 30, 2017
    Mexicans who served in US Army with the promise of becoming citizens but ended up being deported, protest on Memorial Day in Ciudad Juarez
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    Mar 16, 2020
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    #UPDATE The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus has begun in Seattle, US health officials said Monday, raising hopes in the global fight against the disease u.afp.com/35yV
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    May 9, 2023
    We are devastated to learn of the death of AFP video journalist Arman Soldin in eastern Ukraine today. All of our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.
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    Oct 29, 2019
    A huge cardboard skeleton sits in a street in the Tlahuac neighbourhood of Mexico City ahead of the Day of the Dead festival 📸 Pedro Pardo
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    Jul 11, 2018
    This is what it looks like when you get mobbed by celebrating Croatian players #WorldCup 📷 @YuriYurisky
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    Nov 6, 2019
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    VIDEO: 🇺🇸 A cyclist who was fired from her job after raising her middle finger to US President Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia. #JuliBriskman, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photo, beat the Republican incumbent in Loudoun County
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    Jul 27, 2018
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    The "blood moon" eclipse beside a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Hera in Athens
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    Feb 16, 2020
    VIDEO: 🇰🇷 Fresh from his Oscars triumph for '#Parasite', which won best picture, film director Bong Joon-ho returns to South Korea from the US
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    Mar 19, 2020
    Flags of various countries affected by the spread of #COVID19 are projected onto the statue of the Christ Redeemer atop Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro 📸 Florian Plancheur
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    Aug 7, 2020
    Left-wing parliamentarians dress in the colours of the rainbow as Andrzej Duda is sworn in for a second term as president at the Polish parliament in Warsaw 📸 Wojtek Radwanski