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Norwegian teenager is star of Grand Slam Chess Final in Spain
- 2008-09-03
MADRID AFP — A 17-year-old Nowegian chess prodigy, Magnus Carlsen, is the star of the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters currently under way in Spain which features five other top players including world number one Viswanathan Anand of India. Carlsen, who is currently number six in the official world...
Legal challenge to French warship dismantling in Britain
- 2008-09-03
LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners said Wednesday they would go to the courts in a bid to stop an asbestos-contaminated French aircraft carrier from being broken up in Britain. The 32,700-tonne Clemenceau, once the pride of the French navy, has spent the past five years being moved around the...
India's Paes breezes into US Open doubles final
- 2008-09-03
NEW YORK AFP — India's Leander Paes moved closer to claiming two Grand Slam doubles titles at one event for only the second time in his career, booking a berth Wednesday in the US Open men's doubles final. "I think 2008 in New York is going to be special,"...
Disease fears for flood-devastated India, Nepal
- 2008-09-02
SAHARSA, India AFP — Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned Tuesday. They said several camps in India's northern Bihar state and across the border in Nepal, areas...
India struggles to cope with massive flood catastrophe
- 2008-09-01
MADHEPURA, India, Sept 1, 2008 AFP — At least half a million people have been left stranded in northern India without food or water, two weeks after a river changed course swamping hundreds of villages, officials said Monday. Tens of thousands of survivors packed overcrowded relief camps as tensions...
India struggles to cope with flood catastrophe
- 2008-09-01
MADHEPURA, India AFP — India battled Monday to reach at least half a million people stranded by floods without food or drinking water, as the military poured fresh troops into the country's devastated north. Two weeks after the monsoon-swollen Kosi river from Nepal breached flood defences and changed course...
15 drown as Indian flood relief boats capsize: officials
- 2008-09-01
PATNA, India AFP — At least 15 people drowned overnight in two separate incidents in India's flood-ravaged northeast, an official said Tuesday. The dead were on two overcrowded rescue boats that capsized while ferrying people to relief camps and included children washed away by strong currents, said Bihar state's...
India flood survivors plead for those left behind
- 2008-08-31
BANMANKHI, India AFP — Survivors of devastating floods in northeast India said Sunday the rescue operation was failing, accusing the government of abandoning those still stranded in remote villages. At a makeshift relief camp in the state of Bihar, flood survivors pleaded with officials to send help to relatives...
Twenty feared dead as rescue boat capsizes in India floods
- 2008-08-30
PATNA, India AFP — At least 20 people were feared dead after an overloaded rescue boat capsized in flood-hit eastern India, where hundreds of thousands of people are marooned, officials said Saturday. The boat with a capacity of 20 people was carrying about 50 people in a rescue operation...
Massive evacuation as millions hit by India floods
- 2008-08-30
PATNA, India AFP — More than 300,000 people trapped in India's worst floods in 50 years have been rescued but nearly double that number remain stranded without food or water, officials said Saturday. About 60 people have died and three million have been affected since the Kosi river breached...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David Guiraud | Vice President |
| Claude Perret | Director, HR |
| Denis Hiault | Director, Info |
| Jean-Pierre Vignolle | Director General |
| Jocelyne Bulke | Assistant Director |
| Michel Tourmen | Director, Finance |
| Yves de Saint Jacob | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications |
| Luke Hunt | |
| Michael Mainville | Correspondent |
| Dan Jung | Multimedia Editor |
| Peter Wutherich | Editor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Pierre Louette | Chairman & CEO |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Executive Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Info | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director General | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Assistant Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications | Current |
Luke Hunt has worked as a journalist for 20 years, primarily with Agence France-Presse, and is a routine contributor to World Politics Review. In addition to covering the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has extensive experience in Asia and the Middle East. He served as AFP bureau chief in Phnom Penh and Kabul. Currently based in Hong Kong, Hunt's work has appeared in many international newspapers and on international networks including CNN, the BBC and ABC in his native Australia. He has an academic background in military studies and economics.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Correspondent | Current |
| Global Radio News Ltd. | Current | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Moscow-Based Freelance Correspondent | Former |
| The Gazette | Reporter | Former |
| The Prague Post | Reporter | Former |
Array
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Jung | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Center for Journalists | Master | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Editor | Current |
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