Tag: AFP

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Fact Checking: Uruguayan President took less scientific-recommended measures than he stated

  

  The information check unit of French international news agency AFP Friday announced it had detected a statement by Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou that 24.5 of the 27 sanitary measures recommended by his honorary scientific advising committee known as GACH was not accurate.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 07:39 UTC

  Bloomberg fined 5 million Euros in France for a report based on a fake news release

  

  France's financial markets watchdog on Monday hit Bloomberg with a five million euro (US$5.6 million) fine for a report based on a fake news release that triggered a plunge in the shares of French construction giant Vinci and wiped billions off its market value.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  AFP Photo of Brazilian boy with body smeared in oil goes viral

  

  A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 22:50 UTC

  Internet Blackout against student cheating in Algeria

  

  Algerian authorities shot down the internet access for two hours on Wednesday, coinciding with the start of high school diploma exams, the first in a series of internet blackouts to stop students cheating, AFP journalists in Algiers reports.

• Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 11:12 UTC

  World Health Organization update on suspected polio case in Venezuela

  

  Following unconfirmed reports on 8 June of suspected polio re-emergence in Venezuela, final laboratory testing has confirmed the cause of the paralysis is not wild poliovirus or vaccine-derived poliovirus, according to a release from WHO.

• Friday, June 15th 2018 - 16:21 UTC

  Nicaragua crisis: Many seek to flee the country

  

  As the crisis worsens in Nicaragua, pressure on the part of society that demands the resignation of President Daniel Ortega remains. This generates that, in many cities like Masaya, the streets are blocked with more than 200 barricades while their neighbors organize to guarantee security and collect food for the protesters who are entrenched, resisting the paramilitary siege against the city. However, there has been an overflow of passport applications in recent weeks.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Photo of the year: Venezuelan Ronaldo Schemidt wins the World Press Photo

  

  Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt received on Thursday the World Press Photo of the year in Amsterdam, one of the most prestigious in photojournalism, for a photograph shot in May 2017 during the protests in Venezuela while working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) . In the photograph a protester appears in flames, in front of a graffiti in which a weapon appears shooting at the word “peace”.