AFP held fact-checking trainings before the 2025 International Fact-Checking Day

Four AFP journalists from the digital investigation department travelled to Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest, in March and April 2025 to provide fact-checking training to journalists and journalism students.

Four AFP journalists from the digital investigation department travelled to Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest, in March and April 2025 to provide fact-checking training to journalists and journalism students.
04/28/2025 11:16
Life-saving Technologies at EuroELSO 2025: Eurosets Presents Landing Breathe and Xtreme Rescue

Eurosets, a cutting-edge Italian company specializing in the design of life-saving medical devices, unveils two crucial innovations at the EuroELSO 2025 congress: Landing Breathe and Xtreme Rescue. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250428669720/en/Ettore Sansavini, GVM Care & Research President, and Antonio Petralia, CEO and Executive Vice President of Eurosets, with Xtreme Rescue and Jetson One Landing Breathe is a ...

05/06/2025 09:43
China’s 2025 Labor Day Sees Surge in Inbound and Outbound Travel Spending via Alipay and Other Alipay+ Partner Payment Apps

Data from Alipay and other Alipay+ partner payment apps indicates a notable increase in both outbound and inbound tourism spending in China during the 2025 Labor Day holiday (Golden Week). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250505144383/en/The Myeongdong shopping area in South Korea welcomes travelers to pay with Alipay and other Alipay+ partner payment apps. Outbound Travel: Chinese tourists explore local experiences thr...

03/10/2025 05:15
Ant Insurance Uses AI to Help Partner Insurers Process 7.25 Million Health Claims in 2024, Up 55% YoY

In 2024, leading insurers in China processed 7.25 million health claims through Ant Insurance, Ant Group's online insurance brokerage platform, marking a 55% year-over-year increase. Total health claim payouts on the platform reached RMB 9.2 billion (USD 1.3 billion). This growth is driven by ongoing innovations in product offerings and user experience, which build trust and meet user needs, while also reflecting the increasing demand for health insurance services. This press release features m...

04/23/2025 15:42
Veracode Delivers End-to-End Risk Coverage with New Tools: AI-Powered Dynamic Analysis Security Testing with External Attack Surface Management

Veracode, a global leader in application risk management, today announced new capabilities to help organizations address emerging threats, giving security professionals better visibility and control in one place. The launch includes new AI-powered functionality in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) product and an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capability. Together, they enable security teams to discover their entire attack surface and prioritize the most critical risk to...

Newsflare joins AFP's partner video collections

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
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04/28/2025 12:00
New Research Finds Building with Zinc Prevents Substantial Carbon Emissions

Using zinc to build a single home prevents more than 50 tonnes in carbon emissions, and if just ten percent of new homes in North America were built using zinc, more than 40 million tonnes in carbon emissions would be prevented. These impressive numbers demonstrating zinc’s success story as an agent of decarbonization are the first results of the International Zinc Association’s new Zinc Enables Decarbonization (ZED) initiative, a partnership between the International Zinc Association and Envir...

03/10/2025 07:00
World Premiere: H-UKR Decarbonized Cement 0% Clinker From Hoffmann Green Receives a Technical Approval (ATEc)

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies (ISIN: FR0013451044, Ticker: ALHGR) (“Hoffmann Green Cement” or the “Company”), an industrial player committed to the decarbonation of the construction sector that designs and markets innovative clinker-free cements, today announced that it has obtained a Technical Approval (ATEc) for its H-UKR cement, a world premiere for a 0% clinker cement, confirming once again the Company's technological leadership in the construction sector. Resulting from more than seve...

04/28/2025 12:00
Alnylam Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Vutrisiran for the Treatment of ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics company, today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of its RNAi therapeutic vutrisiran for the treatment of wild type or hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adult patients with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). ATTR-CM is a debilitating, rapidly progressive and potentially fatal ...