Lavinia Abbott

Digital Investigation Editor @AFP. Filmmaker. MA Investigative Reporting @Birkbeck_Arts🗣 FR+GER. Views my own. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇪🇺

[Lavinia Abbott @laviniasabbott]

CONFESSIONS OF A FOREIGNER- a Brexit-inspired comedy-drama with @LloydMo27602830 and @danielj28041943
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🇳🇵 🇨🇳 Massive flood sweeps through northern Nepal

Massive flooding has killed several people in Nepal as Chinese state media reported "major casualties" from a mudslide at a Tibet trade hub on China's side of the nations' shared border.

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🇰🇪 Rising Kenyan lakes push crocodiles closer to homes in Baringo

As the lakes of Kenya’s Rift Valley expand -- the result, scientists say, of intense rainfall -- residents are increasingly coming face to face with new and dangerous neighbours: crocodiles.

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🇪🇸 🇲🇦 🇪🇺 What was behind the migrant rush to Spain's Ceuta?

An unprecedented 72,000 people crossed into Spain's enclave of Ceuta in north Africa in just days, triggering one of Europe's biggest migration crises in years. Many were seen swimming around border barriers, while others attempted the crossing on foot. Almost everyone has now returned to Morocco, but Spanish authorities say 2,500 remain

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Yeah this is bad. Unbelievably irresponsible and does immediate, catastrophic damage to the credibility of satellite imagery.

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Aerial images of charred charred pine trees in a forest in southwestern France's Gironde region as a wildfire in the area has "stabilised... meaning it is not advancing," according to Sophie Brocas, the government's top official in Gironde.

She added that 14 blazes around the city of Bordeaux have reignited

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🇬🇧 British artist David Hockney's paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, from carefree 1960s California to the bucolic landscapes of his native Yorkshire.
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🇮🇳 The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs

With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself performing everyday chores to train AI-powered humanoid robots to take on household jobs in the future.

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'Trump' buffalo spared Eid al-Adha sacrifice.

Hours before it faced the knife, Bangladesh's government stepped in to save the buffalo nicknamed "Donald Trump" for its flowing blond hair, which has become an online sensation. Instead it will be cared for at the national zoo

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Making the cut: Competitors vie for title of best mullet in Europe.

Hundreds of distinctively coiffured participants gather in a park in southern Belgium for the annual European Mullet Championship to celebrate the once maligned hairstyle

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🇧🇩 ☪️ 🐃 Bangladesh's 'Donald Trump' buffalo attracts fans

Crowds in Bangladesh are flocking to snap photos with an unlikely social media star -- a rare albino buffalo with flowing blond locks nicknamed "Donald Trump" which is due to be sacrificed within days as part of an Islamic festival

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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, recognizing women and nonbinary photojournalists who demonstrate extraordinary courage in their work. Apply via Picter by March 31:
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[Lavinia Abbott @laviniasabbott]

Social media has been swamped with misinformation since Maduro's capture making it harder to identify authentic images and newsreels from fake ones.

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Security has been tightened at German Christmas markets after recent deadly attacks. But if some online videos were to be believed, they've become barbed-wire fortresses guarded by armoured personnel carriers.

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"First two years of Covid, then four years of war -- children are going mad." Nearly a million young Ukrainians are caught in an 'eternal lockdown' with the war taking a huge toll on their mental well-being and development.

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[Lavinia Abbott @laviniasabbott]

When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a Kabul hospital to beg for an abortion. "We're not allowed," a doctor told her. "If someone finds out, we will all end up in prison."

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VIDEO: 🇬🇧 Tourists flock to fake, AI-generated Buckingham Palace Christmas market

Dozens of tourists travelled to the royal residence after seeing online posts about a traditional Christmas market outside the gates, complete with stalls and twinkling lights. But the images were AI-generated, and no market was ever planned
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📣 New AFP online course on artificial intelligence!

💻 AI is changing how digital content is created and shared. How do journalists know if what they see is real? Learn how to detect and verify AI-generated content at no cost ➡️https://t.co/uI1boS2je8

[Lavinia Abbott @laviniasabbott]

London ‘Scream Squad’ helps young people relieve stress https://t.co/Phn5lBn8v5 via @YouTube

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French forces' 1944 massacre of African World War II troops demanding pay in Senegal was "premeditated" and "covered up", with previous death tolls vastly underestimated, according to a paper submitted to Senegal's president, an exclusive copy of which was obtained by AFP ➡️ https://t.co/tFrzI5eDRq

[Lavinia Abbott @laviniasabbott]

At last night's @frontlineclub screening of the fantastic documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin followed by a Q+A with the director. The film follows Russian schoolteacher Pavel as he bravely exposes rising militarism in his school, risking everything by doing so. On @BBCiPlayer