Hong Kong (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 03:32:40 | Property giant Country Garden up 25% as it resumes Hong Kong trading
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:55:55 | Trump's pardons of US Capitol rioters 'shameful': Pelosi
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:36:45 | Trump gives TikTok 75-day grace period from US ban
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:35:07 | Trump revokes US sanctions on West Bank settlers
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:34:01 | Trump signs order to pull US from World Health Organization
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:22:37 | Trump reinstates Cuba on state sponsor of terror list: W.House
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:18:52 | Trump says Putin 'destroying Russia' by refusing Ukraine deal
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:09:17 | Trump says Denmark will 'come along' on selling Greenland
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 02:03:30 | Trump says could enact 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico on Feb 1
Washington (AFP) | 21/01/2025 - 01:53:04 | Trump signs pardons for Capitol rioters
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (8-14 April, 2023).
A plume of steam and gas billows from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, on April 10, 2023.
© Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP
Kaneka Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhiko Fujii) (TOKYO:4118) acquired 96.8% of shares of EndoStream Medical Ltd. (Headquarters: Or Akiva, Israel; CEO: Danel Mayer; hereinafter referred to as ESM), an Israeli medical equipment company, on December 23, 2024. By combining Kaneka's manufacturing and ESM's technology, we will jointly develop new medical devices, mainly for cerebrovascular treatment, in addition to the Nautilus™ device for aneurysm treatment currently under development. We aim to achieve sales of over 20 billion yen by 2030.
Palestinian AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize on Saturday for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza. The prize, one of the most prestigious in the field of photojournalism, is supported by the Visa pour l’Image Association - Perpignan.
Amidst the bombings, with death ever-present and the constant fear of being targeted, Mahmud Hams, who has worked for AFP for over two decades in the Palestinian territories, has relentlessly continued to document the war ignited by Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
