AFP wins the Photo of the Year Award at the Istanbul Photo Awards
AFP is also rewarded with the 1st prize in the "News Story" category during the 2019 edition of the competition.
Rome (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:53:48 | Italy calls for Hormuz 'humanitarian corridor' for fertiliser
Dakar (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:47:47 | UN voices shock at 'brutal killing' of activist in Guinea-Bissau
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:45:13 | Fire near Iran's Mashhad airport after projectile hit fuel tank: media
New York (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:42:47 | US stocks open sharply lower on latest oil price jump
New York (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:31:10 | Tesla quarterly auto sales rise 6.3% but miss estimates
Baghdad (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:24:05 | Iraq's oil revenues down more than 70% from February: official
Paris (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:03:13 | Iran arrests prize-winning rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: daughter
Moscow (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:02:15 | Putin, Saudi prince seek more efforts to end Mideast war
Bucharest (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 15:01:54 | Romania hails recovery of ancient 'treasure for our identity' helmet in the Netherlands
Jerusalem (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 14:50:07 | Israel says Hezbollah chief to pay 'heavy price' for Jewish holiday attacks
AFP is also rewarded with the 1st prize in the "News Story" category during the 2019 edition of the competition.
AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.
The leading German sports news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst (SID), a subsidiary of AFP, is launching a pilot project to test the automatic writing of sports fixture lists in conjunction with German technology partner aexea. The aim is to explore the possibility of producing sports news with technology which uses a data base and algorithms.
Journalists from around the globe seized a rare chance Wednesday to plead before the UN Security Council for action over the growing numbers of assassinated reporters.
Thony Belizaire, who won numerous awards while working as Agence France-Presse's photographer in his native Haiti for more than 25 years, died on Sunday. He was 54.
Development of a range of services dedicated to mobile telephony providers.
Mobile services
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Québec’s Laval University today signed a partnership agreement under which AFP pledged to host trainee journalists at bureaux within its international network and contribute to the University’s journalism courses.