Paramaribo (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 19:55:25 | Lawmakers elect Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as Suriname's first woman president
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 19:21:56 | BRICS 'condemn the military strikes' against Iran: summit statement
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 19:18:40 | BRICS call for 'unconditional' Gaza ceasefire: summit declaration
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 19:14:26 | BRICS voice 'serious concerns' about Trump tariffs: summit statement
Jerusalem (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 18:48:22 | Netanyahu says his meeting with Trump can 'help advance' Gaza deal
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 16:44:10 | Hosting BRICS, Brazil's Lula hits out at 'genocide' in Gaza
Washington (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 16:05:38 | New US tariff rates to kick in Aug 1 barring trade deals: Treasury Secretary
Hunt, Texas (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 16:00:37 | Death toll in Texas flooding rises to 59: state official
Nairobi (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 13:41:47 | Armed gang attacks Kenya Human Rights Commission: AFP
Jerusalem (AFP) | 06/07/2025 - 13:23:31 | Israeli delegation departs for Gaza talks in Doha: public broadcaster
Ina Fassbender secured first place for her photograph ‘Looking Forward to Euro’, taken in Essen during the 2024 UEFA European football championship.
AFP’s Global News Director, Phil Chetwynd, appeared on France 24’s Scoop on Friday, 7 February, to discuss artificial intelligence and its impact on journalism.
In a context of widespread disinformation, fact-checking forms the first line of response through its focus on restoring the facts. Fact-checking involves verifying content that has already been published, particularly on social media, and establishing what is known—or not—about a subject.
The work of fact-checkers involves:
Selecting the most sensitive and viral topics;
Conducting thorough verification;
Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced its new multi-mission Beechcraft King Air demonstration aircraft will be making its show and European debut at the 2025 Paris Air Show. The aircraft is equipped to showcase a wide range of missions available on the versatile and reliable Beechcraft King Air platform, and will be on static display Monday, June 16, through Thursday, June 19, at the Textron Pavilion A2. This press release features multimedia. View the full relea...
Ant International, a leading global digital payment, and financial technology provider, today unveils its AI strategy with the launch of Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit, an AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) platform that empowers fintech companies and super apps to build AI-agentic and ultimately AI-native financial services with enhanced efficiency, security, and flexibility. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2...
Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd. (“Samsung Bioepis”) announced today that the company has entered into a license, development and commercialization agreement with NIPRO Corporation (“NIPRO”) for multiple biosimilar candidates including SB17, ustekinumab biosimilar candidate, in Japan. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250608582351/en/Samsung Bioepis (President and CEO: Kyung-Ah Kim) has entered into a license, development and ...
AFP Medialab is a small multi-disciplinary team aimed to boost innovation at AFP. It participates in several R&D projects with French or European funding. AFP Medialab is the main developer of the InVID-WeVerify browser extension, one of the main toolboxes to debunk disinformation. This toolbox has attracted more than 90,000 weekly active users from 224 countries at the beginning of 2023.
This investigation by AFP and SourceMaterial reveals that the plastic credits system relies heavily on cement plants, where large quantities of waste are incinerated, making this industry more polluting than aviation.
