AFP wins top prize at Africa Fact Check Awards
AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.
Copenhagen (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 22:24:28 | Denmark's prime minister says she has formed a government
United Nations (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 22:22:59 | Vital to keep a UN force in Lebanon after current peacekeepers depart: Guterres
Jerusalem (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 21:43:17 | Netanyahu tells Trump Israel will strike Beirut if Hezbollah won't stop fire
United Nations (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 21:25:13 | Dozens of nations at UN denounce Russia over Romania drone incident
Brussels (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 21:22:36 | EU reaches migration reform deal paving way for 'return hubs'
Beirut (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 21:17:00 | Lebanon's US embassy says Hezbollah accepted US proposal on 'mutual cessation of attacks'
Washington (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 19:59:54 | Trump says Iran talks continuing 'at a rapid pace'
Washington (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 19:42:51 | Trump says Netanyahu agreed not to send troops to Beirut
United Nations (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 18:51:50 | UN alarmed over Lebanon, calls for ceasefire to be respected
San Francisco (AFP) | 01/06/2026 - 18:18:18 | AI giant Anthropic confidentially files for IPO
Avanzanite Bioscience B.V., a rapidly growing commercial-stage European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, today reported that its partner, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIO), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on delivering innovative medicines for patients with rare diseases, announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for PYRUKYND® (mitapivat), an oral pyruvate kinase (P...
AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.
AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.
Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced agentic trading through direct integration with Claude, one of the world's leading AI platforms. Available through the AI platform’s certified connector marketplace, the integration lets clients manage their accounts and access more than 170 global markets. "Interactive Brokers has used technology for over four decades to help investors make more informed decisions and interact more efficiently with markets," said...
Two Agence France-Presse journalists are missing in Libya, where they were covering the conflict around the eastern city of Tobruk.
Mereo Insurance Limited (“Mereo”) today announced a renewal rights transaction with Everen Specialty Ltd. (“ESL”), a member of the Everen Group, for ESL’s Excess Casualty Energy portfolio. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260519154915/en/David Croom-Johnson, President & Chief Executive Officer of Mereo Insurance Limited Under the transaction, Mereo will become the insurance carrier on a go-forward basis for both ne...
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) (“Grid Dynamics”), a premier AI transformation partner for the Fortune 1000, today announced an AI-native modernization service offering on Microsoft Azure, powered by its GAIN Platform for SDLC. The offering targets large enterprise clients running mission-critical, high-transaction-volume legacy environments. By tackling their biggest roadblocks—technical debt and legacy licensing costs—it addresses a market segment known for larger contracts and st...