Stockholm (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 14:45:29 | Sweden expels Iran embassy employee, summons ambassador: govt
Riyadh (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 14:39:24 | Saudi Arabia condemns 'cowardly terrorist attack' by Houthis on Mecca
Cairo (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 13:59:56 | Arab League chief condemns alleged Houthi attack on Mecca
Sanaa (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 13:56:27 | Yemen's Houthis say targeted Saudi oil facility, air base
Milan (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 12:18:49 | Emporio Armani names Dario Vitale new creative director
Gaza City (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 11:46:25 | Gaza civil defence says toll from building collapse rises to 20, including 5 children
The Hague (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 11:40:10 | Kosovo's ex-president Thaci jailed for 25 years for war crimes: tribunal
Paris (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 11:06:34 | Amnesty says Iran committed 'crimes against humanity' in crackdown on 2022 protests
Beijing (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 10:50:18 | China FM says willing to 'safeguard' Iran's rights
The Hague (AFP) | 16/09/2026 - 10:38:57 | Duterte appears in person at ICC for first time: AFP
Belal al Sabbagh and Youssef Hassouna, in Gaza, and Luckenson Jean, in Haiti, have been nominated for the prestigious Rory Peck Award, which has been given to the best freelance journalists since 1995. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony in London on 28 November.
The Inter-American Press Association has announced the winners of its Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
AFP's multimedia documentary, "Nothing is Impossible: The Odyssey of a Migrant from Venezuela to the United States" won in the "Claudio Paolillo" category for Migration Journalism.
AFP photographer Philip Fong and freelancer Bertha Wang were awarded "Merit of Excellence" achievements by the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association's annual competition earlier this month.
The Hong Kong-based association was established in 1989, today represents more than 100 photographers working across the city and beyond.
The documentary project Inside Gaza, co-produced by FACTSTORY and AFP, was awarded the ‘Best Global Issues Pitch’ at the 35th Sunny Side of the Doc Festival in La Rochelle on 25 June.
The project also received the special AJD Industry Days Award, which includes 2 accreditations to attend the third edition of the Al Jazeera Documentary (AJD) Industry Days, scheduled from 14 to 16 September 2024, in Sarajevo.
AFP received two Honourable Mentions at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for its reporting on the mass exodus of Afghans from Pakistan and the arrival of desperate Rohingya refugees in Indonesia.
Together AI, a leading San Francisco-based AI Native Cloud platform, and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today at LEAP announced a strategic partnership to connect HUMAIN’s rapidly expanding AI compute capacity in Saudi Arabia with global AI-native and enterprise demand. The partnership will include the construction of a new 250 megawatt data center, located in Saudi Arabia. The partnership brings together HUMAIN’s large-scale, multi-...
LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world's largest enterprises, today announced that it has collaborated with IBM and Red Hat on Lightwell to help enterprises safeguard the open-source software supply chain through AI-driven vulnerability remediation. As AI accelerates the discovery of software vulnerabilities, organizations must move beyond detection-focused approaches and adopt enterprise-scale remediation strategies that enable rapid risk mitigation without disrupting business-cri...
AFP’s exceptional series of photographs of women fighting Myanmar’s junta on the frontlines has won the Photography category at the prestigious Human Rights Press Awards 2024.
Mahmud Hams, Jeff Pachoud, Sameer al-Doumy, Adrian Dennis and Adem Altan were honoured at the 2024 Istanbul Photo Awards.
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