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.
Moscow (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 10:53:18 | Russia repels drone attack on gas pipeline to Turkey: Gazprom
Jakarta (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 10:43:34 | Indonesia issues fresh summons for Google, Meta over teen social media ban
Seoul (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 10:22:01 | French President Macron arrives in South Korea on state visit: AFP
Paris (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 10:05:54 | Air France-KLM bids for stake in TAP Air Portugal
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:59:48 | Iran's health ministry says strikes hit century-old medical centre
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:52:01 | China says US, Israeli attacks on Iran the 'root cause' of Hormuz blockage
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 09:17:29 | China calls for 'immediate' halt to hostilities after Trump's Iran threat
Baghdad (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 08:40:57 | US embassy in Baghdad warns of attacks in city over next 24-48 hours
Tehran (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:52:02 | Iran's military vows 'crushing' attacks against US, Israel after Trump threats
Beijing (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:21:35 | Chinese airlines to raise fuel surcharges on domestic flights
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.