Topshots of the Week (15-21 April, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 April, 2023).
Brasília (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 18:39:08 | Bolsonaro conviction 'not a witch hunt,' Lula tells Trump in NYT op-ed
Bucharest (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 18:16:47 | Romania summons Russian ambassador over drone intrusion: minister
Ankara (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 17:48:21 | Tens of thousands join Ankara protest ahead of court showdown
Doha (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 16:45:20 | Qatar PM urges world to 'stop using double standards' and punish Israel
London (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 16:09:11 | UK's Starmer challenges racial intimidation after far-right rally
Brussels (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 15:37:22 | Violation of Romanian airspace by Russian drones 'unacceptable': EU's Kallas
Bucharest (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 15:18:43 | Romania says Russian drone poses 'new challenge' to Black Sea security
Beijing (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 14:57:29 | China says trade talks with US kick off in Madrid
Jerusalem (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 14:54:41 | Netanyahu says Rubio visit shows 'strength' of Israel-US ties
Kyiv (AFP) | 14/09/2025 - 14:50:00 | Ukrainian source claims attacks on Russian railways
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 April, 2023).
On April 20, 2023 the exhibition "Quoi de neuf à l'Est" ("What's new in the East") was launched at cultural centre CWB in Kinshasa. The exhibition shows the work of Alexis Huguet, AFP photojournalist based in Kinshasa, which focuses on the wave of violence in eastern DRC from 2018 to 2023.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (21-28 April, 2023).
AFP and the Web3 art platform LaCollection have announced that a second collection of digital editions (NFT) of press photos from the agency's archives will go on sale in April 2023.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is pleased to announce that Michael Mainville has taken up his role as the new Asia-Pacific Regional Director as of April 3rd, 2023.
Debunking misinformation and publishing fact checks is essential but a new, unprecedented, project will soon help us understand better the disinformation phenomenon. “Narratives Observatory combatting Disinformation in Europe Systemically” or NODES is a pilot project set up by seven research and media partners including AFP, coming from four European countries and co-funded by the European Commission.
The Audio Marketplace (TAM), the first European B2B platform for multilingual professional audio content, will officially launch on September 16 as part of the European Audio Dataspace (EAD) project, coordinated by Agence France-Presse (AFP) with support from the European Commission.
On August 6, 2025, VASTHERA Co., Ltd. announced that it has received Investigational New Drug (IND) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial for VTB-10, its drug candidate for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare, life-threatening disease marked by elevated blood pressure in the lung arteries. VTB-10 is a first-in-class drug candidate developed using VASTHERA’s proprietary Redoxizyme™ platform. VASTHERA identified a deficiency of...
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