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India, Iran to seal gas pipeline deal 'by next month': oil minister
- 2008-07-03
MADRID AFP — India expects to sign a deal "by next month" on a pipeline that will transport gas across the subcontinent from Iran, Indian oil minister Murli Deora told AFP on Thursday. He said the 7.5-billion-dollar (4.7-billion-euro) project to bring gas from Iranian fields to India and Pakistan...
Freed Japanese tourist in Tehran after 8-month ordeal
- 2008-06-14
TEHRAN AFP — A Japanese tourist released by kidnappers in southeastern Iran arrived in Tehran on Sunday ahead of his return home after spending eight months in captivity. Satoshi Nakamura, 23, arrived at Tehran city airport on a flight from the southeastern city of Zahedan at around 3:00 pm...
Muslim, UN outrage over Dutch MP's anti-Islam film
- 2008-03-28
THE HAGUE AFP — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday joined Muslim nations in expressing outrage over an anti-Islam film posted on the Internet by a far-right Dutch MP. UN chief Ban called Geert Wilders' film offensive while Iran and Bangladesh warned it could have grave consequences and...
Experts fear deadly fungus in south Asia wheatfields
- 2008-03-12
PARIS AFP — A wheat-killing fungus has spread from Africa to Iran and may already be in Pakistan, which depends crucially on wheat to feed its population, New Scientist magazine says. The killer pathogen, known as Ug99, emerged in Uganda in 1999, spread to Kenya in 2001, to Ethiopia...
Herat's silk weavers struggle to keep an ancient trade alive
- 2007-10-15
HERAT, Afghanistan AFP — An important stop on the ancient Silk Route, the beautiful city of Herat has for centuries lured travellers and businessmen. But today it is fighting to keep alive one of the symbols of this splendid past -- silk spun from the delicate cocoons of silk...
Militants take 12 hostage in Iran
- 2007-08-19
TEHRAN AFP — Armed militants linked to a shadowy Sunni rebel leader kidnapped 12 people in a restive southeastern province of Iran on Sunday and whisked them off to neighbouring Pakistan, police said. The militants, linked to Abdolmalek Rigi, ambushed the vehicles on a remote road in Sistan-Baluchestan province...
Rushdie protests rage as fatwa looms again
- 2007-06-22
ISLAMABAD AFP — Angry Islamists held the biggest protests yet against Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the novelist 18 years ago was still valid. Pakistan's Prime Minister joined the condemnation as his countrymen torched effigies of the 60-year-old writer...
Rushdie knighthood triggers diplomatic furore
- 2007-06-19
ISLAMABAD AFP — Controversy over a knighthood for author Salman Rushdie escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row as Iran and Pakistan summoned Britain's ambassadors to protest, drawing a retort from London. Iran summoned the British envoy to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams, who was told by the foreign ministry's director for...
Pakistan condemns British knighthood for Rushdie
- 2007-06-18
ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan's parliament on Monday unanimously condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie and asked for the title to be withdrawn to avoid offending Muslims. Indian-born Rushdie, 59, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989...
Pakistan says Rushdie knighthood may spark terrorism
- 2007-06-18
ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan demanded on Monday that Britain withdraw a knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, as a government minister said the honour gave a justification for suicide attacks by Muslims. Angry protesters in several cities torched British flags and beat them with their shoes in protest at...
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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