07/16/2025 10:45
Aude Gandon Appointed Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) announced today that Aude Gandon has been appointed Chief Digital & Marketing Officer (CDMO), effective August 1, 2025. Ms. Gandon will report directly to Stéphane de La Faverie, President and Chief Executive Officer, and will join the company's Executive Team. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250716106615/en/Aude Gandon, Chief Digital & Marketing Officer (CDMO), The E...

05/29/2025 15:49
One Peak Makes 6x Return on Sale of Leading AI-Driven Legal Operations Platform Brightflag to Wolters Kluwer

One Peak, a leading specialist growth equity investor, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its interest in Shine Analytics Limited (“Brightflag”) to Wolters Kluwer (Euronext: WKL), a global leader in information solutions, software and services for professionals. Brightflag is the leading AI-driven legal operations platform, enabling corporate legal departments globally to drive visibility, automation and cost-control across the legal function. One Peak made a si...

07/16/2025 11:00
Venture Global and Eni Announce 20-Year LNG Sales and Purchase Agreement

Today, Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE: VG) and Eni S.P.A. of Italy announced the execution of a new Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the purchase of 2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from CP2 LNG, Venture Global’s third project, for 20 years. This deal marks Eni’s first ever long-term agreement with a U.S. LNG producer. To date, approximately 13.5 MTPA of CP2 Phase One has been sold, raising the total contracted capacity for all of Venture Global’s projects to 4...

07/16/2025 11:00
Veranex Unveils MedTech’s First Innovation CRO (iCRO)—Redefining R&D in a Capital‑Tight Market

Veranex, a global provider of product development and contract research services, today introduced the industry’s first Innovation CRO (iCRO)—an integrated development and research platform engineered to move medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics (IVDs) from concept to commercial success faster, with tighter budget control and a built-in path to payer adoption. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250716366338/en/Verane...

Israël - Hamas: steady under fire

By Phil Chetwynd, AFP Global News Director

 

The Israel-Hamas war is one of the most complex and divisive stories AFP has covered. It touches historical fault lines that are generating visceral emotions in our societies, and in our newsrooms.