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Fact Check

A closer look at claims and statements in the news, with fact checks from AFP and RTL.

Eng Situatioun zu Réimech huet fir e kuerzen Ament vir Verwirrung gesuergt.

Red light, green light

Two lights in Remich caused a moment of confusion

Arizona primary mail ballot envelope reignites unproven fraud claims

Old Taiwan hantavirus death falsely shared as recent

A young boy runs on a rapidly drying water pan, now the last water source for residents and their livestock, in Lulis village near Banissa, Kenya on January 20, 2026

Climate consensus remains despite revisions to far-end emission scenarios

Posts tout unproven treatment for hantavirus, Ebola

Repatriation flight video falsely shared as evidence of staged hantavirus crisis

Persons wearing protective suits walk toward the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius docked in the port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands on May 11, 2026.

Old Moderna research triggers false hantavirus claims online

Posts falsely link 5G networks to 'climate control'

Claims that Trump peeked at Xi's notes during Chinese state banquet are false

S. Korean posts falsely link old video to Starbucks marketing fiasco

AI image of ‘impossible’ wildlife encounter hampers conservation work: research group

Image shows 2025 Spanish military exercise, not 'staged' hantavirus evacuations

Outdated clips from protest, music video misrepresented amid hantavirus outbreak

Skeptics inaccurately frame global warming as 'saving' humans from extinction

A mother holds the foot of her newborn baby in 2019

US infant mortality uptick falsely linked to Covid-19 vaccination

No evidence Usha Vance attended conference with media gala shooting suspect

Fake Trump sleeping photo spreads after White House event

Conspiracy posts misidentify 'Mad Max' actor as NASA astronaut

Yerba mate supplements cannot replicate effects of GLP-1 agonists

Fabricated Trump post mocking Australian PM dupes social media users

The Family of Man photos exposed to high humidity longer than officially stated

Meloni did not tell Trump to 'watch his words'

Footage from earlier uncrewed lunar mission misrepresented as Artemis II’s return

Misleading fuel countdown posts stoke alarm in Australia

Fake Trump post ordering Catholic Church probe spreads amid pope spat

Did the state benefit financially from the rise in fuel prices?

Old footage from Pope Francis's visit in East Timor misrepresented as Israeli exodus

Troop homecoming video misrepresented after US-Iran ceasefire

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