06/01/2025 20:23
ROYC AB Appoints Caspar Macqueen as Head of Business Development to Lead the Next Phase of Growth

ROYC, the global leading Platform-as-a-Service for alternative investments is pleased to announce the appointment of Caspar Macqueen as its new Head of Business Development. This strategic hire comes as ROYC prepares to scale significantly following the proven success of its platform, as evidenced by testimonials from some of the most demanding financial institutions across Europe. With an impressive career spanning close to 10 years in fintech and SaaS companies including recently as Head of...

Ukraine - a year of unprecedented coverage by AFP

Exactly one year ago, AFP reported live from Kyiv’s central Maidan Square that the Russian offensive had begun against Ukraine. Since then, the agency has deployed unprecedented resources to cover this war in the heart of Europe and its consequences for the daily lives of Ukrainians, Russians and people in the rest of the world.


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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Burness Paull

Burness Paull is a commercial law firm based in Scotland, whose market-leading IP practice is ranked in the top tier of both Chambers UK and Legal 500. In recent years the firm has acted in over 70% of all actions raised in the Scottish Intellectual Property Court, raising the majority of those actions. Burness Paull is delighted to be working with AFP and PicRights to protect AFP’s copyright across the UK.

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.

06/01/2025 20:59
Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Ibrahim Jaham Al Kuwari to its Board of Directors

Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPIH), today announced changes to its Board of Directors, including the appointment to the Board of Mr. Ibrahim Jaham Al Kuwari, effective January 6, 2025. Concurrent with this announcement, Independent Director Cynthia Boiter has announced her resignation, effective May 1, 2025, and current Chairman of the Board, Jerome Walker, has announced he will not be standing for re-election at Perma-Pipe’s upcoming 2025 Annual Stockholders Meeting. They...