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Watching the world burn

Marlowe Hood 5 September 2022

With climate disasters piling up, global warming is getting worse – fast. We had better learn to embrace our despair, argues AFP’s environmental editor Marlowe Hood

The murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon jungle shocked the world. But photographer João Laet, who covered the search for AFP, felt it even more. He was Phillips’ friend

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AFP / Oli Scarff
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When seconds seem like hours

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

AFP / Hector Retamal
AFP / Hector Retamal
AFP / Hector Retamal
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Locked in, looking out: Shanghai’s endless zero-Covid nightmare

Vivian Lin 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 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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