AFP wins top prize at Africa Fact Check Awards
AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.
Paris (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 10:05:54 | Air France-KLM bids for stake in TAP Air Portugal
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:59:48 | Iran's health ministry says strikes hit century-old medical centre
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:52:01 | China says US, Israeli attacks on Iran the 'root cause' of Hormuz blockage
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:17:29 | China calls for 'immediate' halt to hostilities after Trump's Iran threat
Baghdad (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 08:40:57 | US embassy in Baghdad warns of attacks in city over next 24-48 hours
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:52:02 | Iran's military vows 'crushing' attacks against US, Israel after Trump threats
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:21:35 | Chinese airlines to raise fuel surcharges on domestic flights
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:21:26 | Malaysia civil servants to work from home amid fuel crisis: PM
Jakarta (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:19:00 | Indonesia calls Israel death penalty law 'grave violation' of human rights
Jerusalem (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 06:24:59 | Israel military says responding to fresh missile fire from Iran
Vonage, part of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), today announced a strategic collaboration with C3 AI (NYSE: AI), a leading Enterprise AI application software provider, to launch C3 AI Field Services, a module of the C3 AI Asset Performance Suite of products, integrated with Vonage APIs. The AI-first module combines C3 AI’s powerful Enterprise AI capabilities with Vonage’s cutting-edge Communications APIs (Voice and Video) and Network APIs (Quality on Demand and Verify), to deliver superior performance...
AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.
In February 2026, a U.S. federal court ruled that Laser Components, a century-old global optics company, had infringed patents held by Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi), a U.S.-based company that has focused on opto-semiconductor R&D and manufacturing for the past 25 years. The court ordered a permanent injunction banning the sale of the infringing products. The ruling applies not only to the manufacture and sale of products using the infringing technology, but also to employees and...
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The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops specifications that standardize wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, today announced major updates to two of its foundational specifications. MIPI UniPro v3.0 and MIPI M-PHY v6.0 offer significant performance, latency and power-efficiency improvements for next-generation JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS 5.0) solutions to support greater edge AI workloads in smartphones, tablets, PCs, gaming consoles, automot...