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From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US Vice President JD Vance casts the tie-breaking vote to confirm former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth as US secretary of defense — despite allegations of alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and other concerns about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon. Interested in licensing this video ? Get…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Inside the SeaPod Alpha Deep off the coast of Puerto Lindo, in Panama, German aerospace engineer Rudiger Koch, 59, hopes to break a world record. Koch, an admirer of Captain Nemo, has been submerged underwater for more than two months at a depth of 11 meters…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Afghanistan’s Taliban government rejects an arrest warrant sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its leaders. The ICC chief prosecutor said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity. "The International Criminal Court…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. In Hargeisa, the largest city in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, traditional and religious values still influence societal norms. However, some women are breaking down those barriers by participating in sports. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A violent storm hits the UK and Ireland with heavy rain and strong winds. The worst of the storm is impacting Scotland and the island of Ireland, with both put on high alert and schools ordered to close. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Ireland has recorded its strongest-ever wind gusts as "destructive" Storm Eowyn barrelled in from the Atlantic, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power, grounding flights and shutting schools, officials said. A top-level red warning for wind has been issued for Ireland as well as for…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Waves crash onto the south-west coast of Ireland in County Cork as Storm Eowyn sees the country recording its strongest-ever wind gusts of 183 kilometres (114 miles) per hour — breaking an 80-year-old record. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Smoke rises in Jenin as an Israeli army tractor demolishes a building during an ongoing large-scale Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military this week launched a raid in the Jenin area, a hotbed of Palestinian militancy, days into a ceasefire in…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Several thousand student-led protesters in Belgrade observe what is now a weekly 15 minutes of silence for the 15 victims of a roof collapse at Novi Sad’s railway station in November. They then march through the streets calling for a general strike, putting them on a…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Sand whips across the beach on the north west coast of England during Storm Eowyn, with red warnings put in place for western and central areas of Scotland and northern Ireland. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The United Nations voices serious concerns over the Israeli military’s use of force in its raid this week in the West Bank, including methods "developed for war fighting". The Israeli military this week launched a raid in the Jenin area, a hotbed of Palestinian militancy, days…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. More than 400,000 people have been displaced this year due to an intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations says. "The displacement figures have now surged to more than 400,000 people this year alone, which is almost double the number that…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Storm Eowyn lashes Northern Ireland with strong gusts of wind, with First Minister Michelle O’Neill warning of a "genuine threat to life and property", and describing the region as currently being "in the eye of the storm". Gusts of 183 kilometres (114 miles) per hour were…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Congolese soldiers and armoured vehicles stream along the road towards the front line in the Sake hills. Crowds of onlookers watch as Congolese helicopter gunships fire rockets on M23 positions, in a bid to halt Rwanda-backed fighters advancing on DR Congo’s eastern provincial capital some 20km…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The World Health Organization (WHO) and Dubai Humanitarian send 67 tons of primary health kits to Gaza to support the ongoing humanitarian efforts in the region. Since the Israel-Hamas truce took effect, desperately needed humanitarian aid has begun to flow into Gaza, and Palestinians displaced by…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Haze cloaks Bangkok’s skyline as air pollution forced the closure of more than 350 schools on Friday. Air quality monitor IQAir ranked the Thai capital the world’s seventh-most polluted major city. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers briefly halt traffic on the Paso del Norte International Bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso as they carry out a training exercise. US President Donald Trump ordered 1,500 more military personnel to the border with Mexico as part…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US President Donald Trump says his administration will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocks his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. SOUNDBITE Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US President Donald Trump signs pardons for 23 anti-abortion protesters whom the White House says were prosecuted under his predecessor Joe Biden’s administration. "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people," Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office the day before a…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US President Donald Trump signs an executive order declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, as well as that of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. "Everything will be revealed," Trump tells reporters as he signs…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A new museum opens in Kosovar capital Pristina, full of belongings and mementos from childhoods spent during the country’s conflict. Kosovo saw a bloody civil war from 1998-1999 between ethnic Albanian insurgents and Serbian armed forces. A decade after the war, majority-Albanian Kosovo declared independence, which…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Argentina’s President Javier Milei says he has found "comrades in this fight for the ideas of freedom", in likeminded leaders such as US President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Hungarian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Hundreds of people gather at night on Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Ipanema beach as a heat wave continues to hit the Brazilian city. Meanwhile, animals at the city’s zoo are given frozen treats to keep them cool. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Twenty five year-old equestrian Shukri Osman Muse has been turning heads on the streets of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Since taking up riding just last year she has now become, according to her trainer, the conservative country’s "first" female equestrian. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Displaced Congolese make their way along the road leading to the centre of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continues to gain ground. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The M23 armed group has seized further territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and continues to tighten its grip on provincial capital Goma, which is almost surrounded by fighting. Weaknesses within the Congolese army, as well as backing from Rwanda are aiding…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. More than 1,500 of Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021 have been celebrating their release from prison, after the US President granted them pardons just hours after taking office. Interested in licensing this video? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD AFP’s services…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Addressing banking and oil executives via video link at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Donald Trump says that "gender surgery will occur very rarely in the US", as he makes a much anticipated online appearance to the global elites. SOUNDBITE Interested in licensing…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A video of a helicopter being shot out of the sky was shared thousands of times with false claims it showed an Afghan soldier shooting down a Pakistani military aircraft. The posts spread after deadly border clashes between the two countries in late December, 2024 –…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. President Donald Trump says that the world has witnessed a "revolution of common sense" in the last 72 hours since he took office, as he makes an address via video conference to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Micheál Martin Martin is congratulated by Fianna Fáil colleagues after being formally appointed Prime Minister in parliament in Dublin. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Transgender cartel musical "Emilia Perez" tops this year’s Oscar nominations, earning 13 nods in an announcement postponed by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. It is followed by epic immigrant saga "The Brutalist," and show-stopping musical adaptation "Wicked," which each picked up 10 nominations. Interested in licensing…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. After David Balland, co-founder of Ledger, a firm that specializes in safeguarding cryptoassets, was released from kidnappers, a gendarmerie operation is in progress in Méreau, a village of 2,600 residents in the Cher department, to identify the people responsible for the kidnapping and ransom of David…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. This year’s Oscar nominations are announced after delays by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Voting deadlines had to be extended this month, as the US entertainment capital and home city of the Academy Awards was devastated by multiple blazes that have killed more than two dozen…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. From being ready to start a family to having more property rights, Thai same-sex and transgender couples talk to AFP about what the new legislation means to them. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Japanese retiree Teruko Nakazawa devoted decades to supervising and helping rehabilitate convicted criminals on parole. The 83-year-old didn’t take a single yen for her hard work under a long-running but little-known state scheme that some say contributes to the nation’s famously low crime rate. Interested in…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A convoy believed to be carrying South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Constitutional Court for the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial, where the judges will call witnesses to hear details of how Yoon’s declaration of martial law unfolded. Interested in licensing…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A gay couple gets married in Thailand — among the first of hundreds expected to do so — as the kingdom’s same-sex marriage law goes into effect. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Images of city traffic and of the the Yangtze River in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 5th anniversary of the world’s first Covid-19 lockdown. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Outside the Grand Kartal Hotel in mountainous northwestern Turkey, ski instructors recall the fire that ripped through the packed building, killing 76 people. "You could hear screams," says Cevdet Can, recalling how some of the hotel’s 238 guests threw themselves from windows to escape. Anger mounted…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Ireland’s incoming and outgoing prime ministers slam the Irish parliament’s failure to formally elect Micheal Martin as the country’s new leader amid chaotic scenes after opposition parties blocked the vote in protest at procedural speaking rights. "What we witnessed today was the subversion of the Irish…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Prince Harry has settled his long-running lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid publisher, which agreed to pay him "substantial damages" after admitting intruding into his private life, including by hacking his phone. Interested in licensing this video? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD AFP’s services and content…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The UK’s Prince Harry has concluded a long-running lawsuit against media giant Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN). Reading a statement from the royal outside the London court, lawyer David Sherborne says "the truth has now been exposed" that NGN used private investigators to…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Hundreds of rescue workers are searching through the mud and debris left by a landslide in Indonesia’s Central Java region. The disaster has killed at least 19 people and left several others missing in the mountainous area. Triggered by intense rainfall, the landslide comes after flooding…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. US President Donald Trump has ordered a 75-day pause on the law that would effectively ban TikTok in the US, as he floated an idea of partnering with the app’s Chinese owner. Trump had promised to move fast to save TikTok saying he was seeking a…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. People in Panama City express their concern and anger at US President Donald Trump’s vow that he would "take back" the Panama Canal. In the weeks leading up to his second term in office, Trump refused to rule out using force to take control of the…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. British Defence Secretary John Healey tells lawmakers that a "Russian spy ship" is in the North Sea after entering and passing through British waters, where it was tracked by the Royal Navy. "Let me be clear, this is a Russian spy ship used for gathering intelligence…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. "The European Union is very, very bad to us," says US President Donald Trump, threatening tariffs against the bloc, as well as China, which he accuses of "sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada". Speaking at the White House on 21 January, the first full day of…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The lawyer representing Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, dubs the settlement reached with Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid group a "monumental victory". SOUNDBITE Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas says that the bloc must heed US President Donald Trump’s demand to spend more on defence, as she issued a stark warning over the threat from Russia. "We need to relay a message that we are serious about our commitment…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Commuters read newspaper headlines on a digital screen at Pyongyang’s Kaeson metro station a day after Donald Trump was sworn in for a historic second term as president. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Chinese teenager Zhang Yachun has long battled anxiety over school and work, and has struggled to form deep friendships with other people. But since buying a BooBoo, a "smart pet" that uses artificial intelligence to interact with humans, the 19-year-old says life has become easier and…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. President Donald Trump announces a US major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant Softbank, Oracle and chatGPT-maker OpenAI. The venture, called Stargate, comes as big tech players are scrambling to meet AI’s voracious computing needs, as well as find the electric…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Israeli security forces and paramedics arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv. Interested in licensing this video ? Get in touch 👉 http://u.afp.com/wvnD N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Across Latin America, some urban residents live in homes on unstable terrain, where rainfall and river flooding threaten the structural integrity of buildings. Despite the risks due to the city’s hilly topography, Bolivians in La Paz continue to live in these areas and even continue to…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A huge fire at a ski resort has killed at least 66 people in northwestern Turkey, where authorities have arrested four people, including the owner of the stricken hotel. The blaze began at around 3:30am local time, ripping through the wooden-clad building, in which 238 guests…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Migrants at the US-Mexico border feel the brunt of President Donald Trump’s immediate crackdown, with the Biden administration’s CBP One app dropping offline and asylum appointments canceled just minutes after his return to office. "It’s one of the saddest days of my life," says Francisco Tordecilla,…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. A fire has engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey, killing at least 66 people and wounding more than 50 others. Witnesses said desperate guests tried to escape using ropes, footage showed bedsheets hanging from the windows, and media reports suggest some died…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. "It’s a little cramped," says gravedigger Ricardo Pabon, who has been working hard in the wake of an outburst of violence in three Colombian departments. At least 100 people were killed as rival militias clashed over five days, leaving cemeteries and morgues full to capacity. Officials…
From AFP News Agency. Click Here to watch video. Images of the house where Lydie Loge lived in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, as Monique Olivier, who has confessed her involvement in the disappearance of the young woman, her serial killer husband Michel Fourniret is suspected of murdering, is taken to the scene to try to locate the body.…