AFP photographers honoured at the World Sports Photography Awards
The 2025 edition of the World Sports Photography Awards has recognised the work of five AFP photographers on Thursday, 9 January.
Manila (AFP) | 23/07/2026 - 11:23:45 | Rubio says Saudis seek 'peaceful, civil nuclear programme'
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Muscat (AFP) | 23/07/2026 - 11:18:09 | Oman says working on resuming Yemen talks after Houthis hit Saudi ship
Tehran (AFP) | 23/07/2026 - 10:50:41 | Iran army vows to continue strikes so long as country is under attack
Amman (AFP) | 23/07/2026 - 10:48:08 | Jordan army says it intercepted Iranian missiles, drones
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London (AFP) | 23/07/2026 - 08:32:04 | EasyJet quarterly profit drops 70% on Middle East war impact
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Cover Genius, the global infrastructure for embedded protection, today announced a USD $100M capital raise, backed by Vista Credit Partners, a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners and strategic financing partner focused on enterprise software. The raise values the business at USD $1.9 billion, advancing a new chapter for the company. Cover Genius operates a B2B2C embedded protection platform that connects 200+ partners with 50+ global insurance carriers to protect over 70 million end customers...
ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with AI-Powered Retention Time-Lock (RTL) that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes and immutability for ransomware recovery, announced today that MES Computing, a brand of The Channel Company, has highlighted ExaGrid in its 2026 MES Midmarket 100 list. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260714261987/en/ The annual MES...
Hologic, Inc. announced today that its Aptima® HPV Assay received an expanded CE-IVDR marking in the European Union and the UK and is now approved for self-collected vaginal samples using the Aptima Multitest Specimen Collection Kit. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260714358586/en/Hologic’s Aptima® HPV Assay and Aptima Multitest Specimen Collection Kit Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women but is l...
Esri has expanded its Community Maps Program, enabling road closure data to be shared with Google Maps and Waze. The Road Closures solution, in Esri's ArcGIS platform, was introduced last year as a way for users to easily share road closure updates directly with popular consumer mapping providers so they can update their maps with this important information. The solution aimed to bridge the gap between government agencies managing timely road updates and the public, who rely on mapping apps for...
Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, will debut the Power of Where Collection at the 2026 Esri User Conference in July. The collection builds on the ideas introduced in The Power of Where: A Geographic Approach to the World's Greatest Challenges, by Esri president Jack Dangermond, published in 2024. The new collection expands these foundational concepts into focused, real-world applications that demonstrate the growing impact of geographic information system (GIS) technology. The...
The 2025 edition of the World Sports Photography Awards has recognised the work of five AFP photographers on Thursday, 9 January.
Samos Energy Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”) announced today the closing of its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 23,000,000 units, including the full exercise by the underwriters of their overallotment option to purchase an additional 3,000,000 units. The offering was priced at $10.00 per unit, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $230,000,000. The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the ticker symbol “SAMO.U” on July 10, 2026. Each unit co...
AFP, alongside its partners in the Lakmusz-HDMO project—an initiative funded by the European Union to combat disinformation—is participating in a week-long event in Budapest to mark International Fact-Checking Day on 2 April 2025.