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.
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
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:21:26 | Malaysia civil servants to work from home amid fuel crisis: PM
Jakarta (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 07:19:00 | Indonesia calls Israel death penalty law 'grave violation' of human rights
Jerusalem (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 06:24:59 | Israel military says responding to fresh missile fire from Iran
Beirut (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 06:05:34 | Lebanon's Hezbollah claims drone, rocket attacks on northern Israel
Sydney (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 04:16:50 | Australia PM says Iran war objectives met, 'not clear' what more to achieve
Jerusalem (AFP) | 02/04/2026 - 04:00:34 | Israel says intercepting Iran missile attack, first after Trump speech
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.