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Finland tops happiness index, Afghanistan ranked bottom

Helsinki (AFP) – Finland has maintained its position as the world’s happiest country for a ninth year running, according to the World Happiness Report, with Denmark and Iceland following close behind. Costa Rica ranks fourth, entering the top five for the first time, with Afghanistan at the bottom of the list.

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Gunshots heard in Iran as crowds gathered for fire festival are dispersed

Tehran (AFP) – Images posted on social media on March 17, 2026 appear to show Iran’s Basij paramilitary force attempting to disperse crowds gathered for Chaharshanbe Suri, an ancient Iranian festival of light and fire marked before Nowruz, in Tehran, with gunshots heard in the background. The locations of these videos have been verified by AFPTV teams in Paris with the help of satellite images.

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Fear in central Beirut as Israel strikes, with and without warning

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Israel repeatedly strikes three densely populated central Beirut neighbourhoods the morning of 18 March, with Lebanese authorities reporting a death toll of at least 12 including a director in Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on 2 March when militant group Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading to a response of intense Israeli strikes on multiple regions around the country and ground operations in the south.

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Israel says killed Iran’s intelligence minister

(AFP) – Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says that Israeli forces have killed Iran’s Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib. The announcement, the day after Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was confirmed killed in an Israeli strike, is part of a longstanding strategy by Israel to target its enemy’s leaders.

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Sudanese artists cling to their craft in displacement shelter

Port Sudan (Sudan) (AFP) – The soft sounds played by musician Assem Abdel Aziz of a blues tune float through a Port Sudan school-turned-shelter, home to 120 Sudanese artists displaced by three years of war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. For filmmaker Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, “it’s a blessing that all of these artists found each other in the same place.”

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Russia condemns killing of Iranian security chief Larijani

Moscow (AFP) – Russia condemns the killing of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, after ally Tehran vowed retaliation for the death of the military official killed in an Israeli airstrike. Moscow is a close ally of Iran and has condemned the US and Israeli attacks. Larijani had met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in January, at a time when US navy ships were heading towards Iran ahead of the US-Israeli air campaign launched at the end of February.

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‘Africa has been humiliated’: fans react as Senegal stripped of AFCON title

Dakar (AFP) – Senegal football fans slam the decision to strip the country of its Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title and give it to Morocco, saying “Africa has been humiliated” by the move as their country demands an investigation. In Rabat, Morocco, where the match was played, fans are decidedly in favour even if less emotional, as they prepare their final shopping ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of Ramadan.

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