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.
Tehran (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 10:28:51 | Massive blast heard in Tehran: AFP journalist
Tehran (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 10:08:03 | Iran says continuing US exchanges through Pakistani mediators
Tehran (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:58:08 | Iran says return to hostilities will affect talks with US
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:52:39 | Israel army says struck and dismantled 'strategic defence systems' in Iran
Tehran (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:49:29 | Iran says US responsible for resumption of hostilities with Israel
Beijing (AFP) | 08/06/2026 - 09:33:00 | China says hopes Israel, Iran maintain ceasefire
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
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...
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...