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18/08/2026 - 16:30

AFP’s Sofia Bouderbala awarded Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network fellowship

AFP journalist Sofia Bouderbala has been awarded a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) fellowship to investigate the impacts of mining on deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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16/06/2026 - 14:41

AFP launches MediaGen, a generative AI project for media

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is launching MediaGen, an innovative project to develop trustworthy generative artificial intelligence tools for French and international media.

09/06/2026 - 14:00

lensEU: Major European Newsrooms Team Up to Bring EU Affairs Home

A new weekly podcast and newsletter, produced in five languages, aims to make European politics feel relevant to the people it actually affects.
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28/05/2026 - 11:44

AFP invites you to the Deauville Sport Images Festival 2026

The Deauville Sport Images Festival returns for its second edition starting June 6, 2026, with a programme exploring sports photography via four main themes: current events, society, artistic photography, and historic photography.
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13/05/2026 - 10:13

AFP at the Second Deauville Sport Images Festival

From June 6 to September 6, 2026, the city of Deauville will host the second edition of the Deauville Sport Images Festival, an event dedicated to sports photography. AFP is a partner of the exhibition.
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05/05/2026 - 10:00

AFP unveils photography exhibition celebrating the real lives of balkan women

Agence France-Presse (AFP), with the support of the L'Oréal Group, announces the launch of a new photography exhibition and dialogue series, “Unbounded Voices”, showcasing the lives of different women across the Balkans. Opening on May 19, 2026, at the French Institute in Belgrade, the exhibition aims to capture the everyday realities of women from Tirana to Banja Luka.
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30/04/2026 - 10:00

Shefali Khan and Aakash Gulzar: Winners of the Marai Photo Grant 2026 Announced

The 2026 Marai Photo Grant winners have been announced.
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16/04/2026 - 17:30

AFP’s financial results 2025: positive net profit for the seventh straight year despite a first decline in commercial sales since 2018

AFP’s board approved the 2025 accounts at its meeting of April 16, 2026.
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24/03/2026 - 11:13

Appointments to AFP’s Executive Committee (COMEX): Pauline Talagrand, Claudia Rahola and Marion Thibaut
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06/03/2026 - 11:00

CLIC-Bait: AFP, France Médias Monde, and Top Content Creators Join Forces to Tackle Disinformation

Agence France-Presse (AFP) with partners France Médias Monde and Oštro have entered the production phase of CLIC, a European social media initiative to tackle disinformation. By fusing the rigour of professional journalists with the massive reach of popular content creators, the aim is to widen the audience for fact-checking content.
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