Washington (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 16:39:34 | US 'stands firmly with Panama' in dispute over ships detained by China: Rubio
United Nations (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 16:11:18 | UN chief warns world on 'edge of a wider war'
Frankfurt (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 16:03:41 | Lufthansa submits bid for stake in TAP Air Portugal: spokesman
Rome (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:53:48 | Italy calls for Hormuz 'humanitarian corridor' for fertiliser
Dakar (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:47:47 | UN voices shock at 'brutal killing' of activist in Guinea-Bissau
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:45:13 | Fire near Iran's Mashhad airport after projectile hit fuel tank: media
New York (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:42:47 | US stocks open sharply lower on latest oil price jump
New York (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:31:10 | Tesla quarterly auto sales rise 6.3% but miss estimates
Baghdad (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:24:05 | Iraq's oil revenues down more than 70% from February: official
Paris (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:03:13 | Iran arrests prize-winning rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: daughter
AFP and the Web3 art platform LaCollection have announced that a second collection of digital editions (NFT) of press photos from the agency's archives will go on sale in April 2023.
The widest alliance between German-speaking digital investigators and researchers, known as GADMO, has launched its website in a further step in the battle against online falsehoods.
Exactly one year ago, AFP reported live from Kyiv’s central Maidan Square that the Russian offensive had begun against Ukraine. Since then, the agency has deployed unprecedented resources to cover this war in the heart of Europe and its consequences for the daily lives of Ukrainians, Russians and people in the rest of the world.
Germany’s respected Grimme institute has just published a comparative analysis of fact-checking organisations in the country, which highlights the quality of Agence France-Presse’s digital verification production.
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, brought the global optics and photonics community to San Francisco, California, for another successful and enlivening Photonics West. With more than 23,000 registrants, the annual conference and exhibition connected attendees from 40 countries, showcasing the transnational and collaborative spirit of the interdisciplinary industry. The dynamic event ran from 17 to 22 January, with 4,200 technical presentations across 100 conferences, 4 s...
Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of industry-defining open source tools including Terraform and Vagrant, to its board of directors. Hashimoto brings a rare combination of developer community credibility, open source leadership, and company-building experience at scale. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260318957008/en/G...
WPH Digital PTE. LTD., a Singapore-based AI and Digital Service Provider, announced today that it has become one of the first AI and Digital Service Providers in Singapore to achieve ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management Systems certification on 26th February 2026. The company is also the First in the World to achieve ISO 42001 certification for AI Systems in the oil and gas industry. The certification was issued by BSI, a globally recognised standards and certification body, th...
The Union of Kansai Governments has refreshed the Kansai Startup Ecosystem portal, strengthening the region’s global communication platform for startups and deep tech. At the same time, the “DeepTech Frontier Kansai” website has also been updated, further enhancing international visibility for Kansai’s rapidly growing deep tech ecosystem. Kansai’s startup ecosystem has demonstrated steady growth in recent years. The ecosystem’s total value expanded from USD 2.68 billion in 2023 to USD 3.23 bill...
