Journalists detained in Libya: AFP Chairman Emmanuel Hoog writes to Colonel Kadhafi
In a March 22 letter regarding detained Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, as well as photographer Joe Raedle from Getty Images,
Madrid (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 18:20:55 | One person dies in fire in eastern Spain: town hall
Bordeaux (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 17:47:55 | Threat of fire in southwest France remains 'very serious': top official
Lacanau (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 17:28:55 | A400M military plane carries out first firefighting mission in France
Paris (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 16:41:52 | France sends 500 more troops to help fight wildfires: ministry
Moscow (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 15:44:39 | Kazakh leader tells Putin Ukraine war should end
Sanaa (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 14:27:12 | Yemen's Houthis say targeted Saudi oil facilities on Red Sea
New Delhi (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 14:18:41 | India's 'cockroach' party says ending protest after minister resigns
Damascus (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 14:18:40 | Syria bus crash toll rises to 35 dead: state media
Paris (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 14:07:40 | French PM calls new crisis meeting over wildfires response
Damascus (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 13:55:22 | UN chief says situation in Syria's Golan area 'unacceptable'
The center of gravity in global retail has shifted East. The formats now driving the fastest growth in global retail (live shopping, social commerce, and delivery in minutes) were pioneered and scaled in Asia, and most Western consumers have yet to adopt them. According to NIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a leading consumer intelligence company, in its global report The Commerce Revolution: Where East Meets West, the gap between East and West is still vast. This press release features multimedia. View the ful...
STL Optical Connectivity NA, LLC, (STLOC), a U.S. subsidiary of STL (Sterlite Technologies Ltd.) [NSE: STLTECH], a leading connectivity solutions provider for AI-ready digital infrastructure, today announced that it launched its new advanced FTTH solution, CONCAT, after successfully completing field trials on the networks of one of the largest telecom service providers in the United States. Following successful field validation, CONCAT is now available to digital infrastructure providers seek...
In a March 22 letter regarding detained Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, as well as photographer Joe Raedle from Getty Images,
Retail media has become the fastest-growing profit line in grocery, yet the billions of dollars CPG advertisers invest in it every year flow through a system where media buyers and merchants never see the same data. Merchants plan assortments, negotiate trade spend, and execute resets with no visibility into which CPG media investments are driving category velocity, while CPG advertisers renew or walk based on incrementality proof that most retailers cannot provide. To solve for this, SymphonyA...
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...