AFP wins three Days Japan prizes
Three AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 Days Japan photo contest
Cairo (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 18:51:15 | Egypt condemns Israel's recognition of Somaliland
Istanbul (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 18:36:15 | Turkey condemns Israel 'interference' with Somaliland recognition
Moscow (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 17:41:40 | Russia says Ukraine seeking to 'torpedo' talks on US plan
Mogadishu (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 16:11:11 | Somaliland president hails Israel's recognition as 'state'
Damascus (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 15:45:17 | Islamist militant group claims responsibility for Syria mosque bombing
Dubai (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 15:37:04 | Around 15,000 Saudi-backed fighters amass near Yemen border: Yemen official
Jerusalem (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 15:35:13 | Israel announces recognition of Somaliland as 'sovereign state': PM office
Kyiv (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 14:59:38 | Zelensky-Trump meeting planned in Florida on Sunday: Ukraine presidency
Washington (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 14:40:58 | US confirms strikes on IS-linked groups had Nigerian approval
Putrajaya (AFP) | 26/12/2025 - 14:35:19 | Judge jails ex-Malaysian PM Najib for 15 years after new graft conviction
Three AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 Days Japan photo contest
Two AFP photographers – Jim Watson and Saul Loeb – were awarded at the 2016 ceremony of the WHNPA.
Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operations through a major new contract with Facebook covering the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is being added to fact-checking in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese that is carried out by AFP teams in 16 countries throughout the world.
From 27 August to 11 September 2016, the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan will showcase Aris Messinis’s coverage of migrants landing on the beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos.
A new segment on the French television channel TF1’s Saturday evening news programme will show viewers how AFP journalists debunked a fake news story.
Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis was honoured Saturday at photojournalism's biggest annual festival, for moving images of the massive arrival of migrants in Greece last year.
Global news agency AFP has opened a bureau in North Korea, becoming one of only a handful of foreign media organisations to have a permanent presence in the one of the world’s most isolated states.