04/29/2026 07:00
AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report

Thales today released the 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age, revealing a fundamental shift in how the internet operates, as AI-accelerated automation becomes a defining feature of modern digital infrastructure. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260428783532/en/©Thales The findings highlight three major structural changes: the emergence of AI agents as a new category of internet traffic, the dominance of a...

Our selection of AFP videos from 13 to 19 February 2023

Discover the top 5 videos from AFP News Agency EN YouTube channel (13-19 February 2023)


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Destruction in Auckland as storm lashes New Zealand | AFP

Images of a damaged house and road after a tropical storm hits northern New Zealand. A state of emergency was declared in five regions on the North Island, covering almost one-third of New Zealand's entire population of 5.1 million.

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Journalists killed and injured in Lebanon: AFP investigation points to Israeli army strike

An Agence France-Presse investigation into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured several others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell used only by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region.

 

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04/29/2026 07:00
OpenGate Capital Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Total Safety’s Europe and Middle East Division

OpenGate Capital (“OpenGate”), a global private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the European and the Middle Eastern (“EMEA”) division of Total Safety, a Littlejohn & Co. portfolio company. Total Safety EMEA is a leading provider of mission-critical safety and compliance solutions serving petrochemical and oil & gas customers across EMEA. The company focuses on workforce protection and regulatory compliance in complex, safety critical env...

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Turkish father's pain symbolises quake tragedy

It was a moment encapsulating the unspeakable pain of the Turkish earthquake: a father holding his 15-year-old's hand, the only thing visible after her body was crushed by concrete.


A man holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Turkey.

AFP ranks among the top 10 French companies in terms of gender equality

According to a study led by Forbes and Statista last November, AFP gets the 7th place among the 49 French ranked companies, and the 65th place among the 400 worldwide companies overall. AFP is also the first media that appears in the ranking.


This study was based on a survey of approximately 85,000 women working in 400 multinational companies of 36 countries. The women were invited to assess anonymously their employer's performance regarding gender topics such as gender equality on opportunities for advancement and parental leave.

Jocelyne Zablit takes part in roundtable discussion during kickoff meeting of Bulgarian/Romanian hub against disinformation

The event, organized by the Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE) in Sofia, is part of a weeklong event from January 23 to 27 titled “United against disinformation”.


The roundtable discussion on January 26 -- which will focus on the Code of Practice for fact-checkers in Bulgaria and Romania -- will be open to the public and will include interested stakeholders from the technology, media and academic sectors as well as NGOs.

Fighting disinformation: AFP shares tools in videos

AFP has a new short video format to share tips and techniques for digital investigations, drawing on the experience of the world’s largest fact-checking network.


From finding the origin of a video online to using archives to identify old versions of web pages, reading foreign languages with a smartphone or using mapping tools, these videos demonstrate tools used by AFP journalists around the world in their investigations.

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