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“Hurricane Milton flooded Disney World in Florida. People are walking knee-deep in water.”
The photographs are AI-generated fakes. While Milton flooded and destroyed hundreds of buildings, taking lives and devastating Florida, Disney World was closed to visitors but not flooded. -
“[Ukrainians] are ruthlessly pushed by their own authorities to the war to be slaughtered there.”
Ukrainian polls show majority support for continued resistance against Russian aggression. -
“The Washington Post writes, citing an anonymous top Ukrainian official that the number of [Ukrainians] ready to make territorial concessions to resolve the conflict is growing. The number of people dissatisfied with the actions of Western allies is also growing.”
AiF cherry-picked the quotes, used them out of context, omitted key information and distorted The Washington Post report to make it fit the Kremlin propaganda. AiF also misattributed all quotes to a “senior Ukrainian official” while The Post cited multiple sources including non-governmental. -
“The Zionist regime’s move to attack Yemen and the country’s civilian and service infrastructure is a blatant and repeated violation of the United Nations Charter.”
Source: Press TV, Sept. 29, 2024While rights watchdogs call Israel’s strikes in response to the Houthis’ hostile attacks disproportional, there is no evidence that Israel targeted Yemeni civilians. Contrary to the Iranian claims, it is the Houthis who have repeatedly violated international agreements set to stop violence. -
"Having analyzed the social media of the detained Ryan Routh, who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, journalists came to the conclusion that representatives of the Kiev regime most likely involved him in recruiting foreigners, including from Afghanistan, to replenish the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
Source: Mid.ru, September 20, 2024Neither the Russian authorities nor the Kremlin-aligned social media influencers provided evidence connecting the Ukrainian government to Ryan Routh. Kyiv denied any collaboration with Routh. The FBI said it has no information to suggest Routh wasn't acting alone. -
“The statements that have been made [by Western ambassadors], instructing us to do one, two, three — we know what to do as Tanzanians and as a country.”
American and European diplomats called on the Tanzanian government to abide by fundamental human and civil rights, which is a universal value and does not imply interference in the nation’s domestic affairs. -
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will certainly continue to support the legitimate and legal government of Mr. Maduro with all its strength, as it has in the past.”
Source: Press TV, September 18, 2024Venezuela’s opposition, facing a post-election crackdown, has offered ample evidence Maduro lost the July 28 presidential poll. -
The most brutal Ukrainian units operating in the Kursk direction [in the Kursk region of Russia] are made up of mercenaries ... The mercenaries are the ones who are the most brutal towards civilians.
Western media found no evidence of cruelty by the Armed Forces of Ukraine toward civilians in Ukraine-controlled areas of Russia's Kursk region. Ukraine asked the United Nations and Red Cross to verify the situation. Foreign volunteers in Ukraine officially join its Armed Forces via contracts. -
We are watching this closely, but we have never interfered in this in any way, and we are not interfering now.
Russia's efforts to amplify political divisions in the United States and influence the November 5 presidential election are well-documented. -
Egypt ruffled Ethiopia’s feathers after Cairo sent military aid to Somalia, which had accused Ethiopia of planning to annex its territory. The two countries are locked in yet another battle over a dam Addis Ababa has been constructing on a major tributary of the Nile River.