04/22/2025 13:00
Pure Lithium Receives $300M Letter of Interest from the Export Import Bank of the United States to Build Lithium Metal Battery Manufacturing Facility

Pure Lithium Corporation, a disruptive Boston-based vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, is pleased to announce it has received a Letter of Interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), for a debt funding package of $300 million. The funding would advance the development of the company’s first industrial-scale lithium metal vanadium battery manufacturing facility. Based on preliminary information regarding expected U.S. exports and jobs supported ...

04/22/2025 13:00
PUMA Reaches Goal of Making 9 Out of 10 Products With Recycled or Certified Materials

Sports company PUMA has achieved its goal of making 9 out of 10 products from recycled or certified materials in 2024 and made further progress in its focus areas circularity, climate and human rights, the company said as part of its sustainability report which was published on Tuesday. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250422813225/en/Sports company PUMA has achieved its goal of making 9 out of 10 products from recycled...

Two AFP Journalists Nominated for the Albert Londres Prize

Romain Colas, AFP journalist based in Moscow, is among the nine finalists for the Albert Londres Prize in the category for 'best reporter in the written press,’ set to be awarded at the end of November. Célia Lebur, coordinator of AFP's Digital Investigation division for Francophone Africa, has also been nominated in the ‘best reporting book’ category for the book Mafia Africa, which she co-authored.

Intervention of Stéphane Delfour at Thai Fact-Checking Network's launch

Stéphane Delfour, AFP Director of the Bangkok bureau, participated Thursday August 24 in the launch of the "Thai Fact-Checking Network", a network of media and organizations committed to the fight against disinformation in Thailand, under the aegis of the Thai Media Fund (TMF), of which AFP is one of the main partners.

AFP journalist wounded in drone attack in east Ukraine

An AFP video journalist was wounded by a drone attack while reporting at a Ukrainian artillery position on Monday, AFP reporters who witnessed the explosion said.


Dylan Collins, a US citizen based in Lebanon but on assignment in Ukraine, sustained multiple shrapnel injuries in the attack in a forested area near Bakhmut.

He was evacuated to a nearby hospital where he was being treated and doctors have said his condition was not life-threatening.