Maya Szaniecki

Social Media Journalist at @afp (she/her)

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VIDEO: 🇬🇧 Heartbroken Brits abandoning pets as living costs bite

Some owners are having to make the decision to give up their animal companions, with the prices of many items including pet food increasing by around 25% since the Covid pandemic
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VIDEO: 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 Kneecap: Fierce row rages over Irish band's political messaging

The hip hop trio are facing accusations of supporting militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, and calling for the deaths of British members of parliament. The band have denied the allegations
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VIDEO: Exhausted from a rising cost of living and non-stop ads, some young adults on TikTok are pushing back. This new trend, known as "underconsumption core", spotlights living sustainably and using what you already have.
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VIDEO: 🔥 🇫🇷 AFP journalists wounded in Lebanon join Olympic torch relay

Christina Assi and Dylan Collins, both hit and injured by Israeli shellfire while reporting in Lebanon in October 2023, carried the flame near Paris to honour journalists killed on assignment
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VIDEO: 🇫🇷 Calls come in to France's last working telephone box

Driven by nostalgia for a vintage era, calls are coming in from around the world to the phone in an eastern French village after an article revealed the number to call to reach it on
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[Carnevali Alice @CarnevaliAlice1]

📚 I'm working on an article and I am looking for bookworms happy to share their views on Elena Ferrante's 'My Brilliant Friend'.

✏️Reply or DM to have a quick chat!

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VIDEO: 🇷🇸 Belgrade's sewage problem festers despite pledges

Serbia plans to build its first wastewater treatment plant to tackle decades of water pollution caused by sewage and industrial waste being directly discharged into the Danube and its tributaries
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VIDEO: 🎤 🇬🇧 ✈️ Heathrow: live music to entertain passengers

A stage has been set up in London's Heathrow Airport for the first time to showcase emerging artists. A record 30 million people are expected to travel through the airport this summer
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VIDEO: 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé trains in tricolour mask

France's captain trained after suffering a broken nose in the team's opening Euro 2024 match against Austria. It is unclear whether the star will take part in the team’s second game against the Netherlands on Friday
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VIDEO: Powerful images of the D-Day landings have resurfaced 80 years after they were taken by American cameramen on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. French documentarian Dominique Forget rediscovered the forgotten footage and wants to preserve and honour their memory.
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[Maya Szaniecki @MSzaniecki]

First time shooting (and first time nearly being hit by a wheel of cheese 🧀)

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VIDEO: 🇬🇧 🧀 Cheese chasers launch down hill in annual British race

Competitors chased wheels of cheese down a steep hill, with few remaining upright, at the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll near Gloucester. Their prize? An 8lb Double Gloucester cheese
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VIDEO: The Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash alongside the country’s foreign minister. The helicopter crashed in a fog-shrouded mountain region of the country.
🎥 Mostafa Dadkhah, Iranian Red Crescent Society, Iran Press
📸 Atta Kenare
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VIDEO: 🇧🇷 Black farmers in Brazil changing views on coffee production

Raphael Brandao beams with pride as he describes the high-end coffee he produces with beans sourced exclusively from Black farmers in a country where many still associate the product with slavery
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[UNRWA @UNRWA]

There is no such thing as a safe place in #Gaza.

Nowhere and nobody is safe. Every day that goes by, more civilians die and families are forced to live in increasingly unspeakable conditions.

The #GazaStrip has become hell on earth. The only remaining hope is a #CeasefireNow

[Orla Guerin @OrlaGuerin]

This is the story of Alma, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza whose entire family was killed - in one night. Relatives say an Israeli strike brought down a 5-storey building on them. Warning graphic content. With @Goktay @wburema @haneenabdeen4

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"Il voulait que son visage soit projeté sur la Tour Eiffel" - Comment les demandes en mariage se multiplient à @Paris https://t.co/gV0xzllnRW via @CNNTravel

[Maya Szaniecki @MSzaniecki]

My final story for @cnni, was a very fun one to work on 💍💘

'He wanted his face beamed on the Eiffel Tower' - How marriage proposals are going off the charts in Paris https://t.co/APnmt2odXU

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.

It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.

(Location: Bournemouth Beach)

[Maya Szaniecki @MSzaniecki]

Amongst the farmers protesting in France 🚜

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France's National Assembly has passed a historic bill that moves the country to the brink of enshrining the right to abortion in its constitution https://t.co/xVTh9DFV08