Topshots of the Week (7-13 September, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from September 7th to September 13th, 2024.
London (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 02:11:26 | Oil tanker hit by 'unknown projectile' in Strait of Hormuz region: maritime agency
Washington (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 01:23:26 | US concerned by China nuclear buildup after missile launch
Seoul (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 01:17:29 | Samsung Electronics says Q2 operating profit likely rose more than 1,800%
Montreal (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 22:29:16 | Canada has chosen Germany's TKMS to build new fleet of submarines: Carney
Caracas (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 21:21:40 | Death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes rises to 3,535: official
Jerusalem (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 21:06:34 | Israel parliament advances bill for inquiry into Oct 7 failures
Paris (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 20:16:19 | Syria president hails France's 'constructive role' in transition as Macron visits
Tehran (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 18:57:00 | Body of Khamenei arrives in Qom ahead of procession: state TV
Havana (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 18:34:06 | Cuba suffers new nationwide blackout, third in six months
Damascus (AFP) | 06/07/2026 - 18:32:11 | Macron arrives in Syria for first post-Assad visit by West European head of state: AFP
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.
Phoenix Group PLC (ADX: PHX), an IHC portfolio company and global digital infrastructure operator, today announced a strategic partnership with DC Max to develop its first European AI data center, an 18MW facility in Lyon, France. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260512531777/en/From left to right: Matthias Luecker, Chairman of DC Max, and Munaf Ali, Co-Founder and Group CEO of Phoenix Group, during the signing ceremon...
Owkin, the agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to revolutionize drug discovery and development, today announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to build biopharma agents as part of their three-year licensing of K Pro – Owkin’s AI Scientist for biopharma decision making. K Pro brings multimodal data and specialized biological agentic AI to each step of the value chain. Under the three-year licensing agreement, Owkin will lead the end-to-end development of AI age...
1Q 2026 This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260512320157/en/Oliver Bäte, Chief Executive Officer of Allianz SE Total business volume at 53.0 billion euros, an internal growth of 3.5 percent1. This was driven by a strong development in Property-Casualty and Asset Management Operating profit rises 6.6 percent and reaches a record level of 4.5 billion euros Shareholders’ core net income advances by 48.4 percent to 3.8...
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...
AFP PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN MACDOUGALL WINS GERMANY'S RENOWNED RUECKBLENDE (FLASHBACK) PRIZE