Hong Kong (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 04:13:18 | Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai to receive verdict on Monday: court
Tokyo (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 04:02:06 | 6.7-magnitude quake off northern Japan, tsunami warning
Tokyo (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 01:31:55 | US, Japan defence ministers agree China actions 'not conducive to regional peace': Tokyo
Bangkok (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 01:23:43 | Thai PM dissolves parliament: royal decree
Caracas (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 00:43:16 | Maduro blasts US seizure of Venezuela oil tanker as act of 'naval piracy'
Sydney (AFP) | 12/12/2025 - 00:38:46 | Reddit files legal challenge to overturn Australia's social media ban
New York (AFP) | 11/12/2025 - 23:37:42 | Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years for fraud: US media
Washington (AFP) | 11/12/2025 - 23:31:46 | Salvadoran man wrongly deported from US released from ICE custody: lawyer
New York (AFP) | 11/12/2025 - 22:09:55 | Dow, S&P 500 end at fresh records while Nasdaq dips
Washington (AFP) | 11/12/2025 - 20:27:20 | US sanctions Maduro nephews, ships carrying Venezuela oil: official
KP Labs, a European Leader in delivering autonomous systems for space applications and Frontgrade™ Gaisler Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration in developing and validating advanced on-board computing architectures designed to increase the autonomy and resilience of fu...
AFP is proud to have been awarded the AIB News Agency of the Year 2020 Video Award, as part of the Awards’ 16th edition.
Parse Biosciences, the leading provider of scalable and accessible single cell sequencing solutions, today announced a breakthrough technology that unlocks the full potential of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples. By enabling whole transcriptome capture from archived tissues at single cell resolution, this innovation opens new possibilities for discovery in oncology, translational research, and precision medicine. The use of FFPE samples for single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq...
NIQ and Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) have announced a new collaboration to study the effectiveness of cross-platform advertising across linear TV and Amazon Ads inventory in Italy. Through the collaboration advertisers and agencies will gain actionable insights into the relative performance of ad placements across digital, linear TV and streaming environments, including how each contributes to incremental reach and influences product purchases on Amazon’s ecommerce platforms. The insights are...
AFP is part of a new African alliance to combat misinformation around the Covid-19 pandemic and other health emergencies which was launched Thursday, December 3rd by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
AFP has been looking at this issue for six months, in partnership with seven other media groups (Reuters, Schibsted, La Nacion, Reach PLC, Deutsche Welle, Nikkei, Nice Matin). The working group, brought together by Polis -- a media think tank at the London School of Economics -- presented its findings on December 8 at the JournalismAI Festival.
Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, announced that its Maximus-384 supercomputer has been ranked No. 20 globally on the TOP500 List, the industry’s most recognized benchmark for publicly known supercomputing systems. The ranking highlights the performance of the AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPU-based “Maximus” cluster, operated at the company’s facility in Buffalo, New York and released ahead of Supercomputing 2025, the leading global conference for HPC. The T...
The British daily notably praised the Shanghai-based Chilean photographer for his coverage of the Wuhan crisis, the city where the first cases of Covid-19 were detected. He has made trips to the Chinese megalopolis all throughout 2020, most recently documenting its return to life.
On the occasion of the 20th edition of the UNICEF Photo of the Year Awards, AFP photographer Angelos Tzortzinis has received the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award.
Moscow-based photographer Kirill Kudryavtsev was recognised at the “The Energy of Victories” national sports journalism festival contest on December 11, organised by the Russian Olympic Committee and the Federation of Sports Journalists of Russia with the backing of Gazprom.
