10/29/2025 19:58
Celebrating Destination Excellence: TOURISE Unveils Finalists for the 2025 TOURISE Awards

Anticipation is building as TOURISE today unveils the finalists for the highly anticipated 2025 TOURISE Awards, set to recognize those leading global destinations who are rewriting the very definition of exploration. Twelve destinations have been named as finalists in this year’s TOURISE Awards, setting the pace for the future of tourism. Together they represent places from across the world that are not just changing the game of destination excellence, they are setting entirely new rules to cat...

Leading scientists and fact-checking experts including AFP launch NODES, the first European Narratives Observatory to fight disinformation online

Debunking misinformation and publishing fact checks is essential but a new, unprecedented, project will soon help us understand better the disinformation phenomenon. “Narratives Observatory combatting Disinformation in Europe Systemically” or NODES is a pilot project set up by seven research and media partners including AFP, coming from four European countries and co-funded by the European Commission.


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11/03/2025 07:00
Merz Aesthetics® Introduces New BELOTERO® Syringe Offering Greater Precision, Comfort and Ease of Use

Merz Aesthetics, the world’s largest dedicated medical aesthetics business, announced today the launch of a new syringe for its category-leading hyaluronic acid (HA) brand BELOTERO®*. The new syringe is ergonomically engineered to elevate the treatment experience, offering greater precision, comfort, and ease of use. The new syringe will launch first in Europe, and then will expand to markets worldwide. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswir...

11/03/2025 07:00
Merz Aesthetics® Introduces New BELOTERO® Syringe Offering Greater Precision, Comfort and Ease of Use

Merz Aesthetics, the world’s largest dedicated medical aesthetics business, announced today the launch of a new syringe for its category-leading hyaluronic acid (HA) brand BELOTERO®*. The new syringe is ergonomically engineered to elevate the treatment experience, offering greater precision, comfort, and ease of use. The new syringe will launch first in Europe, and then will expand to markets worldwide. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswir...

11/03/2025 07:00
Merz Aesthetics® Introduces New BELOTERO® Syringe Offering Greater Precision, Comfort and Ease of Use

Merz Aesthetics, the world’s largest dedicated medical aesthetics business, announced today the launch of a new syringe for its category-leading hyaluronic acid (HA) brand BELOTERO®. The new syringe is ergonomically engineered to elevate the treatment experience, offering greater precision, comfort, and ease of use. The new syringe will launch first in Europe and then will expand to markets worldwide. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire....

11/03/2025 07:00
Xpansiv Announces Acquisition of Evident to Strengthen Global Renewable Energy Markets

Xpansiv® Limited (“Xpansiv”) and Evident Group Limited (“Evident”) today announced an agreement uniting their complementary registry and infrastructure capabilities to support the continued growth of the global renewable energy markets. The agreement, in which Xpansiv has wholly acquired Evident, follows an earlier, minority investment by Xpansiv in the registry operator and certification body. It combines Evident's international renewable energy for electricity “I-REC(E)” and other registrie...

AFP's 2022 results: 5% growth in commercial revenues, new tensions on costs

At its meeting on 20 April 2023, AFP's Board of Directors approved the accounts for the 2022 financial year, which confirm the Agency's continued financial recovery.


The Agency's commercial revenues reached €208.6 million, rising by 5.3% (+10.4 million) compared to 2021, at comparable exchange rates. For the first time in the Agency's history, the €200 million threshold for commercial revenue was exceeded. Business was driven by the Agency's three strategic development areas: video, digital investigation, and corporate and institutional activity.

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AFP launches online course to tackle climate misinformation

Leading global news agency AFP releases an online training course to equip journalists and journalism students with tools and techniques to tackle climate misinformation.


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AFP Asia-Pacific welcomes Michael Mainville as its new regional director

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is pleased to announce that Michael Mainville has taken up his role as the new Asia-Pacific Regional Director as of April 3rd, 2023.

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Ukrainian news agency trains in fact-checking with AFP and APA

After training with journalists from Agence France-Presse and the Austrian news agency APA, Ukraine’s largest news agency Ukrinform has started writing its own fact-check articles in an effort to confront a wave of war-related disinformation.


It is the first major Ukrainian media outlet to be trained in fact-checking, a crucial step as Russia’s conflict in Ukraine has entered its second year.

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