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.
Paris (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:26:51 | France's Macron congratulates Armenia PM on party's election win
Hong Kong (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:12:10 | Brent crude jumps more than 5% on new Mideast concerns
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 08:59:45 | Israeli military says new barrage of missiles incoming from Iran
Rome (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 08:58:21 | Italy's biggest bank Intesa launches rival 31 bn euro bid for MPS
Yerevan (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 08:23:16 | Armenia PM's ruling party wins polls: preliminary results
General Santos (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 08:22:56 | Death toll in Philippine quake at least 15: disaster agency
Sanaa (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 08:22:30 | Yemen's Houthis declare ban on Israeli shipping in Red Sea: statement
General Santos (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 07:58:33 | Philippine disaster agency confirms 8 dead in quake
Muzaffarabad (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 07:53:11 | Clashes between protesters and police kill 7 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir: officials
Kolkata (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 07:53:05 | India detains and deports 5,000 Bangladeshis: state chief minister
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...
Smartstream, a trusted data solutions provider for leading global financial institutions and enterprises, today announced the availability of Smart Agents, its agentic AI solution designed for bank operations. Proven in Tier 1 pilot deployments and natively integrated with Smart Reconciliations, it can be deployed immediately without changes to client infrastructure and is purpose built for regulated environments. Financial institutions dedicate up to 70% of operational effort to exception wo...
Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC) today reported strong early results for its breakout UpsideOnly trading and market prediction platform and announced an agreement with Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) to list tokenized real-world commodity assets on the Perpetuals platform. In its first two weeks, traders flocked to the UpsideOnly platform, attracting more than 30,000 active users, generating $4.5 billion in cumulative platform volume across 186,000 fills and 25 instruments. Reflecting the wi...
Phenom, the leader in applied AI with an infrastructure built specifically to redesign work operations, has been positioned as a Strategic Leader in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition for the sixth year in a row. The positioning reinforces Phenom’s focus on sustained execution and customer impact at a moment when most enterprises remain stuck between AI ambition and AI that works. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/...
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...
The Fortegra Group, Inc. ("Fortegra" or the "Company"), a global specialty insurer and part of DB Insurance Co., Ltd., today announced the appointment of Mark Rattner as President. Mr. Rattner, who previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer, Insurance, brings a decade of Fortegra leadership and long-standing relationships with reliable distribution partners to his expanded role. Drawing on disciplined underwriting expertise built over a career spanning more t...