The fall of the USSR, an AFP webdocumentary
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on December 25, 1991, bringing an end to the Soviet Union.
Paris (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 11:32:53 | Europe heatwave: more than 90 mn set for temperatures above 35°C
Beirut (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 11:25:56 | Lebanon passes sweeping amnesty law for prisoners, wanted people
Moscow (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 10:10:04 | Putin threatens retaliatory seizures of European ships
Paris (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 10:01:08 | IEA cuts 2026 oil demand forecast again as Hormuz remains shut
Islamabad (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 09:03:44 | Pakistan says interior minister in Iran to discuss regional security
Islamabad (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 08:43:09 | Pakistan says 3 citizens killed in Houthi strike in Red Sea
Harare (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 07:32:45 | Capsized ferry in Zimbabwe leaves at least 15 dead, 27 missing: rescue services
Caracas (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 04:53:51 | Indigenous chief kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas found dead in Venezuela: NGO
Wellington (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 03:02:00 | New Zealand PM Luxon says survived confidence vote
Seoul (AFP) | 12/08/2026 - 00:14:13 | North Korea fires ballistic missile over East Sea: Seoul
Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced new research commissioned by Boomi and conducted by Omdia showing that despite Asia Pacific’s (APAC) rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, a significant number of organisations lack the data architecture needed to achieve measurable return on investment (ROI). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260615391067/en/Boomi Study Finds APAC Organisations Risking A...
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on December 25, 1991, bringing an end to the Soviet Union.
In order to renew the management at SID, Antoine Ludier, CFO of AFP, will temporarily be assuming the direction at SID as from January 16th, since Mr Cremer presented his resignation. AFP is proud of the results of its subsidiary SID, leader in sport news for the German market. SID generated an astonishing turnover of 5,3 M€ in 2011. The editorial teams at AFP and SID will be covering together the London Olympics and the Euro 2012, in order to respond better to our international client's needs.
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who have fallen" while doing their job as journalists, she explained.
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) announces a new collaboration with Synopsys, Inc., enabling users of Synopsys' simulation tools to navigate directly to Murata's website to access and download the latest high-performance simulation models from Murata. The collaboration covers Synopsys' 3D electromagnetic field analysis tool Ansys HFSS™ and thermal analysis tool Ansys Icepak®, and marks a significant step toward streamlining the simulation workflow for electronic...
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from September 7th to September 13th, 2024.
ABB Robotics is collaborating with California bionics company, PSYONIC, to advance robotic gripping and dexterity using a new approach that utilizes real-world manipulation data from human prosthetic use. By combining the PSYONIC Ability Hand with an ABB GoFa™ cobot, the collaboration will explore how touch and motion data generated by human prosthetic use can be used to train robots to perform delicate, variable tasks that have traditionally been difficult to automate. This press release feat...
British computing technology company Signaloid today announced the release of the Signaloid Compute Engine Amazon Machine Image (AMI) via AWS Marketplace. The release enables organizations to deploy Signaloid’s distribution-extended compute hardware (UxHw®) technology within their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). The AMI provides access to UxHw, which delivers orders-of-magnitude performance improvements on x86_64 and ARM (AArch64) AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Without requi...