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False: Activists of PTI clashing with Pakistani police in Islamabad A video of a mob clashing with police on a road has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Twitter and Facebook with a false claim that it shows supporters of Imran Khan on the Kashmir Highway in May 2023 to protest the former Pakistani prime minister's arrest in a graft case. But the video in fact shows Central American migrants trying to force their way through a line of Guatemalan police as they attempt to continue their journey towards the United States in January 2021. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

False: Ingesting cayenne pepper will stop a heart attack. The claim cayenne pepper can stop a heart attack is false. Cardiology experts told AAP FactCheck the cayenne cure is a persistent myth and there is no scientific evidence to support the claim. AAP FactCheck sourced the claim to herbalists and naturopaths who provide no medical research to back up their claims. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)

False: Fabricated Rachel Notley tweet on gender affirming surgeries in Alberta shared online Alberta’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Rachel Notley did not tweet stating children in Alberta would have access to gender affirming surgeries without parental consent, a spokesperson for Notley said in an email to Reuters. A screenshot of a purported tweet by Notley, with s (Source: Reuters)