AFP photographer Mahmud Hams wins top prize for Gaza coverage
Palestinian AFP photographer Mahmud Hams has won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza, the Visa pour l'image Association announced Saturday.
New York (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:47:41 | Boeing reports small loss, points to progress on turnaround
Beirut (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:47:39 | Lebanon to request one-month truce extension in Israel meeting: official to AFP
Brussels (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:21:07 | EU gives preliminary approval to unblock 90-bn-euro Ukraine loan: official
Kyiv (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 12:31:19 | Ukraine has restarted Russian oil pipeline to Hungary, Slovakia
Tehran (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 12:18:58 | Iran Guards say 'seized' two ships attempting to cross Strait of Hormuz
Kathmandu (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 11:28:23 | Nepal's under-fire home minister Sudan Gurung says he has resigned
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Jerusalem (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 10:54:18 | Israel FM calls on Lebanon to 'work together' with Israel against Hezbollah
Dubai (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 10:03:53 | Cargo ship leaving Iran fired upon, stopped in water: maritime agency
Kyiv (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 09:46:45 | Ukraine to restart Russian oil pipeline to Europe 'within a few hours'
Palestinian AFP photographer Mahmud Hams has won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza, the Visa pour l'image Association announced Saturday.
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.
STOKR has appointed Subhankar Sinha as Senior Advisor. Sinha will work directly with STOKR's leadership team on fund tokenization with particular focus on money market fund (MMF) tokenization and on expanding STOKR's institutional presence in the U.S. market. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260323315236/en/Image, Subhankar Sinha A New York-based digital assets executive, Sinha brings deep expertise across blockchain i...
AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
Andersen Consulting enters into a Collaboration Agreement with Stratis Consulting, a Dublin-based firm specializing in strategic employment relations, people strategy, and workplace policy. Founded in 2017, Stratis Consulting is an advisory firm recognized for its deep expertise in employment relations and leadership strategy. The firm works closely with senior executives, boards, and HR leaders as a trusted advisor to design practical, people-centered solutions that improve engagement, stren...
The Westinghouse Springfields facility in Lancashire, UK, has marked a significant milestone as the oldest continuous nuclear fuel manufacturing site in the world, starting from its original license on the 28th, March 1946. The site was chosen by the UK Government to develop nuclear fuel for the world’s earliest civil nuclear power stations, as well as subsequent Magnox and Advanced Gas Reactors (AGR) reactors. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.bus...
HistoSonics, the developer of the Edison® Histotripsy System and novel histotripsy therapy platform, today announced the successful treatments of the first patients in WOLVERINE, a prospective feasibility trial evaluating the Edison® Histotripsy System for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, a teaching hospital for The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Edison System is a novel, non-invasive, image guided platform that uses the mechani...
AFP held a digital investigation workshop on Wednesday 12 February for Brazilian journalists preparing to cover the COP30 – the 30th session of the UN climate change conference –, to be held in November 2025 in the Amazon, in the city of Belém.
Mehdi Lebouachera has been appointed as AFP’s next Global Editor-In-Chief, replacing Sophie Huet, who is taking on a new role developing the agency’s Artificial Intelligence strategy.