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When seconds seem like hours

Monday 27 June 2022

Oli Scarff’s heart-stopping photographs of swimmer Anita Alvarez losing consciousness as she took part in the World Aquatic Championships in Budapest moved millions

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  • AFP / Liu Jin

Locked in, looking out: Shanghai’s endless zero-Covid nightmare

Vivian Lin Tuesday 24 May 2022

Robot dogs, quarantine camps and interminable Covid tests . . .  AFP video journalist Vivian Lin on living through Shanghai’s never-ending lockdown 

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Welcome (back) to Hell: war in Ukraine reopens Sarajevo’s scars

Sonia Bakaric Sunday 1 May 2022

The invasion of Ukraine has brought back painful memories for those who lived through the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the bloodiest in Europe since World War II. Thirty years on, the trauma is still raw, writes Sonia Bakaric, who covered the conflict for AFP

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AFP / Ronaldo Schemidt

Bucha: A street filled with bodies

Danny Kemp Sunday 17 April 2022

An AFP team were the first journalists to discover the horrors of Bucha, a quiet commuter town near Kyiv, occupied by the Russian army for over a month, where Russian troops are accused of massacring hundreds of civilians. This is Danny Kemp’s account of what they saw that day. Some may find it distressing. 

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AFP / Joel Saget

Podcast: Crossroads France

Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer Tuesday 5 April 2022

Paris - As France heads into the 2022 presidential election, the fabric of a country that has at times been the envy of Europe is looking tattered. The sands of society are shifting on an almost daily basis, the ‘traditional’ French way of life appears to be on the way out. Things that used to define France appear to have gone: the welfare state is losing steam, industry and agriculture are both suffering.

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