Rio de Janeiro (AFP) | 08/05/2025 - 00:02:19 | Brazil central bank hikes interest rate to 14.75%, highest in nearly 20 years
Moscow (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 23:05:54 | Putin's order for three-day truce with Ukraine takes effect
Washington (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 21:05:23 | Fed chair says Trump criticism 'doesn't affect doing our job at all'
Vatican City (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 21:04:45 | Black smoke from Sistine Chapel signals no new pope: AFP
Washington (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:56:37 | US Fed chair: 'Great deal of uncertainty' remains over where tariffs end up
Washington (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:52:11 | US Fed chair: 'Great deal of uncertainty' remains over where tariffs end up
Paris (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:44:52 | Sharaa says no justification for maintaining European sanctions on Syria
Paris (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:31:11 | Macron says Israeli strikes on Syria will not guarantee security
Paris (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:28:20 | Syria's Sharaa confirms indirect talks with Israel to ease tensions
Riyadh (AFP) | 07/05/2025 - 20:23:19 | Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli plan to expand Gaza offensive
The jury composed by pilots and the Dakar Director David Castera awarded the Émilie-Poucan Prize to Franck Fife for the best aerial photographic coverage.
The winning picture was taken during the prologue of the Dakar 2023 by the Red Sea in Yanbu.
3Degrees, a leading global climate solutions provider, announced today that it will be expanding its carbon asset development capabilities in Singapore. The move will see the company developing a pipeline of projects that are aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement across Southeast Asia and beyond, supporting the region’s growing demand for credible, science-based climate action. The company brings nearly two decades of market experience and technical expertise to the region and is well-p...
AFP, in association with the European Fact-Checking Standards network (EFCSN) and other European stakeholders, announces the launch of a project to improve the capacities of European fact-checking organisations to tackle crisis situations. It is called FactCRICIS (European Fact-Checking Response in Climate Crises), co-funded by the European Union.
Debiopharm (www.debiopharm.com), a privately-owned, Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company aiming to establish tomorrow’s standard-of-care to cure cancer and infectious diseases and develop new antibody linker technologies, will release promising new data for two of its pipeline products at the 2025 Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Furthermore, a joint poster presentation with Oncodesign Services (www.oncodesign-services.com) will highlight the...
DataBahn.ai, a leader in AI-powered data fabric and pipeline management, today announced the launch of Reef, an industry-first solution that transforms high-volume, high-velocity security telemetry into actionable intelligence – precisely when and where it’s needed. Enterprises collect petabytes of logs, alerts, and telemetry – but typically analyze less than 5% of it. That small slice often misses the most critical signals. Reef intelligently filters, identifies, contextualizes, and prioritiz...
Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) (“Clearwater”), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Beacon Platform Inc. (Beacon), a provider of enterprise risk analytics and developer infrastructure. The acquisition strengthens Clearwater’s capabilities in complex portfolio management across both public and private markets, including structured products, private credit, and derivatives. For years, institutional investors ...
MultiBank Group, the world’s largest financial derivatives institution based in Dubai has signed a historic $3 billion tokenization agreement with MAG, the leading real estate developer in the UAE, and Mavryk, a leading blockchain innovator — marking the largest real-world asset (RWA) tokenization initiative globally to date. The initiative highlights the imminent launch of $MBG, the utility token at the core of MultiBank’s next-generation digital finance ecosystem. This press release features ...
LR Health & Beauty has been synonymous with the best Aloe Vera quality on the market for over 20 years, and continuously invests in new product innovations to take full advantage of the plant's range of beneficial properties. The majority of the over 60 products are developed and produced directly at the company headquarters in Ahlen. LR has now made a decisive breakthrough in skin care cosmetics with its unique combination of pure Aloe Vera leaf gel and fermented Aloe Vera. The care produc...
Today, AFP and other leading global news and publishing organizations signed onto an open letter to policymakers and industry leaders globally, laying out proposed principles for the regulated and responsible growth of generative AI models.
In addition to outlining consequences for the media industry and the public should the global regulatory landscape not evolve as quickly as AI innovation, the letter also voices support for the creation of an appropriate legal framework around the technology.• The disclosure of training sets used to create generative AI models.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) announces the appointment of Fleur Laurent as Managing Director of its subsidiary company FACTSTORY, an agency specialised in multimedia content production.
Fleur Laurent, 35, held various roles in business development and marketing within AFP, before joining FACTSTORY, where she became Deputy Managing Director in January this year.
