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...The account behind the post boasts more than 71,000 followers and has a history of publishing content sympathetic to the Indigenous People of Biafra... ...It was on the 27th of May that the consultative forum assembly in Enugu sat together and gave Ojukwu the mandate to declare BIAFRA, so they made... ...With a history of spreading disinformation, IPOB supporters have been the subject of several debunks by AFP Fact Check.... ...Ojukwu in the post refers to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Igbo army commander who made the unilateral declaration of independence in the southeast...

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...Fauci, who became the White House chief medical advisor under President Joe Biden, retired from public service last year.... ...why he would not give the boot to Fauci, who headed the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and was the face of America's coronavirus... ...Siwei Lyu, director of the Media Forensic Lab at the University of Buffalo, told AFP the image also portrays Trump's right arm in an abnormal position... ...briefing room, but the text is incomprehensible and does not properly spell "The White House" or "Washington."...

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...The Idiroko border post is in Ogun state in southwest Nigeria, along the border with Benin.... ...The claim appeared elsewhere on TikTok as well as on Facebook and Twitter.... ...He added, however, that some border posts in Ogun state, like Imeko, Ohumbe, Ijofin and Ijoun, remain shut.... ...Bamidele Makinde, the head of the Nigerian Customs Service in Ogun state, was quoted by local newspapers on June 6, 2023 confirming the Idiroko border...

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...The clip of the sick cattle also circulated on Instagram and on Facebook in Polish. But the claims in the posts are false.... ...Northern Italy," says a June 2, 2023 tweet sharing the video. "Government came and vaccinated cattle against cv19.... ...AFP reported at the time that around 50 Piedmontese cattle on a farm in Sommariva del Bosco, near Turin, died due to acute prussic acid poisoning... ..."We suspect that the drought caused this very large quantity of dhurrin within the sorghum plants," Stefano Giantin, a veterinarian at the Istituto...

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...“A Single man in china was so fed up that he booked every other seat at a Shanghai cinema to prevents couples sitting together on February 14 (sic... ...The claim also appeared elsewhere on Facebook, including here, here and here.... ...“A movie theater restarts in Beijing, China on July 24, 2020, amid continuing worries over the new coronavirus COVID-19.... ...Using a reverse image search, AFP Fact Check found the original picture in the online database of the Associated Press news agency....

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...It was shared on Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram in English and French.... ...Another May 31 tweet that spread as a screenshot to Instagram declared: The European Union is now warning pregnant women not to get the COVID-19... ...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... ...Dauby, an infectious disease specialist at CHU Saint-Pierre hospital in Brussels....

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...Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over charges of alleged sexual harassment and intimidation (archived here and here).... ...The picture circulated after clashes broke out on May 28 between the police and Indian wrestlers, who have protested to demand the arrest of Wrestling... ...between people claiming to be local villagers and farmers at the Singhu Border" and a credit to the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency.... ...AFP reported the wrestlers tried to march towards India's new parliament building on the day as it was being inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra...

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...It shows an aerial view of the triple train crash that killed nearly 300 people in Balasore town in Odisha, with a white building circled in green... ..."What happened in Balasore, is that an accident or a terrorist conspiracy?... ...Below are images of the temple at Bahanaga district in Balasore and the view from its terrace taken by AFP: Brij Sharan Das, the temple's priest,... ...Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement (archived link)....

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...website Zero Hedge and prominent US conservatives including activist Jack Posobiec, former congressman Ron Paul and Republican 2024 presidential... ...candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.... ...Mark Hvizda, a defense analyst at RAND Corporation, told AFP that while the Javelin locks onto a target before firing and has a maximum range of... ...Raytheon, which manufactures the weapon with Lockheed Martin, told Lead Stories that the artillery in the clip is not their product....

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...Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right blogger, tweeted a video May 27, 2023 of a meeting between Zelensky and Graham, a Republican from the US state of South... ...Video misrepresents US senator's comments on Russia-Ukraine war In a video shared online, Senator Lindsey Graham appears to tell Ukrainian President... ...Graham met with Zelensky on May 26 in Kyiv to discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict.... ...The United States has given Ukraine billions of dollars in aid since the war began....