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Dramatic footage of a truck being swept away by a strong current in India has been viewed tens of thousands of times in posts ...

The post circulated weeks before 55-year-old JVP leader Dissanayake won the presidential vote in a landslide promising to ...

A video of dozens of dead cows in a market in Nigeria has been shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed ...

Submerging a leaking gas cylinder in water will have "no effect" on the leak, a spokesperson for Indonesia's state energy firm Pertamina told AFP, contradicting social media posts that claimed this ...

As the deadly Hurricane Helene caused massive flooding across the southeast United States in late September 2024, online ...

An old image of a joint US-Japan military drill has been falsely shared as showing a standoff between Chinese and US vessels ...

The European Union's office in Hong Kong told AFP that Hong Kong passport holders can still enter the bloc visa-free, ...

As Hurricane Helene pounded the southeastern United States with devastating winds and flooding in late September 2024, social ...

Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya was misquoted in Facebook posts that falsely claimed she said she did not have any experience in building the country. She in fact told reporters that ...

After US vice presidential candidate Tim Walz told a rally in the swing state of Pennsylvania that "we can't afford four more ...

A photo of an exploded toilet in a Hong Kong public restroom ricocheted across social media following deadly attacks ...