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Fact check: Three viral Iran war posts debunked
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Fact check: Three viral Iran war posts debunked

In the wake of the new US attack on Iran, social media is awash with dramatic images and claims about the fighting. DW Fact Check found AI-generated and recycled videos, as well as misleading posts from dubious accounts.

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Hong Kong’s prisoners are China’s signal to the world: there is no hope for democracy on its soil
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Hong Kong’s prisoners are China’s signal to the world: there is no hope for democracy on its soil

Under draconian security laws, his sentence has been extended by 10 years Two years ago, I wrote in this newspaper about the lengthy imprisonment of my friend Joshua Wong, who I spent years campaigning alongside for the advancement of Hong Kong’s democracy. On Thursday, Joshua was sentenced to another 10 years under Hong Kong’s national security law for colluding with foreign forces.

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‘My biggest fear is the loss of lives’: NPA Chief warns against fuel siphoning
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‘My biggest fear is the loss of lives’: NPA Chief warns against fuel siphoning

The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Godwin Kudzo Tameklo, has delivered a heartfelt appeal to Ghanaians to protect their lives by staying away from overturned fuel tankers, warning that the temptation to collect petroleum products from accident scenes could lead to irreversible tragedy. Speaking at the 2026 NPA Consumer Week celebration in Kasoa on Thursday, November 5, Mr Tameklo cautioned against the dangerous practice of gathering at accident scenes to siphon fuel.

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‘Dark horse diplomat’: Melania Trump plays both sides in joint Russia-Ukraine White House visit
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‘Dark horse diplomat’: Melania Trump plays both sides in joint Russia-Ukraine White House visit

As war rages on in Kyiv and other cities, the first lady celebrates her single-city ceasefire with Russian and Ukrainian envoys Beaming from a podium in the White House’s Grand Foyer, Melania Trump welcomed senior Russian and Ukrainian officials on Thursday to celebrate a ceasefire in an embattled Ukrainian town for which she has become the unlikeliest broker. The evacuation from Oleshky, a frontline Ukrainian town now occupied by Russia where 800 people lived through a protracted humanitarian crisis, may seem like a sideshow at this point in the war.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s victory has laid bare a truth about America's view on Israel
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Abdul El-Sayed’s victory has laid bare a truth about America's view on Israel

But the media often made it seem real Among the things that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory last night in the Michigan Senate race revealed is this: the debate over US policy toward Israel does not primarily pit the left versus the right. Peter Beinart is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, editor at large at Jewish Currents, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter.

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