Pour clarifier : nous étions 4 ambassades dans ce bâtiment, 🇺🇸 au rdc gauche, 🇫🇷 au 1er, 🇬🇧 au 2e gauche et 🇳🇿 au 3e. Le bâtiment s’est déchiré en deux et la partie gauche s’est afaissée d’un étage, écrasant le rdc. L’ambassade 🇺🇸 est aplatie. Nous avions 5 agents à l’intérieur, qui ont pu s’extraire in extremis. Avec les répliques, le bâtiment continue de bouger.
Indian Ocean nations to mark 20 years since devastating tsunami.
Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster.
Beachside memorials and religious ceremonies will be held across Asia
https://t.co/Ykf9MjUImc
Sinking feeling.
@AFP's Bay Ismoyo photographs residents living in floodwaters resulting from overflow from a river after heavy rain in Jakarta.
Jakarta is sinking at an alarming rate and a quarter of the capital will be completely submerged by 2050 if no urgent measures are taken, the National Research and Innovation Agency has said
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Wednesday a deal with Australia on a vast fossil fuel project seen as crucial to the tiny nation's economic future will be struck by November ➡️ https://t.co/NeiLjLq5So
Interview by @JFXM
📷 @YasuyoshiChiba
🏅JO-2024 : Christina Assi et Dylan Collins, journalistes de l'AFP blessés lors d'un reportage en octobre 2023 au Liban, ont porté la flamme olympique dimanche à Vincennes, en hommage "à tous les journalistes, à nos collègues et amis tués cette année" #AFPVertical ⤵️
Next month, Cambodia breaks ground on a massive new canal with potential economic, diplomatic, social and environmental implications. @SuySe1 and I did a deep dive on the project for @AFP: https://t.co/WQLkeoiug1
🏔️ Sur les pentes du mont Everest, le changement climatique fait fondre des couches de neige et de glace, révélant les cadavres de centaines d'alpinistes qui ont péri en tentant d'atteindre le toit du monde #AFPVertical ⤵️
Le Rassemblement National aurait la majorité absolue au deuxième tour sans désistement généralisé ou front républicain.
Projection exclusive @BLUE_GEG_org.
https://t.co/JcJt6ZdenY
#UPDATE France's far right won the first round of pivotal legislative elections, with the centrist forces of President Emmanuel Macron coming in third behind the left after the highest turnout in over four decades, estimates said.
https://t.co/JwYMprFPS8 @Stuart_JW@AnnaSafp
Russia says it will block access to dozens of European media outlets, including @AFP websites, in response to the EU slapping broadcasting bans on several Russian outlets last month
https://t.co/644ycUzoAs
#Nusantara : 2 mois avant l'inauguration prevue des premiers batiments de la nouvelle capitale d'#Indonésie, son chef et un adjoint demissionnent https://t.co/KcYrgzRWTi
Three interesting facts on Indonesia's mineral industry from @IEA's new report.
1. Indonesia will be the single largest miner of key energy transition minerals for decades to come. Its market share in mined products would be larger than Africa's.
#UPDATE Papua New Guinea's leader dismisses Joe Biden's unlikely suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals there as "loose" talk that does not reflect the US president's feelings for the country.
James Marape says the PNG-US relationship is stronger than "one blurry moment"
https://t.co/H2sEotlJF4
Ready to fly.
@AFP's Devi Rahman photographs participants preparing to take off during the traditional hot air balloon festival, an annual event since 1950, during the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia