Old skills meet new technology at Ireland's ploughing championships

Among the roar of tractors and clip-clop of horses, precision, tradition and technology meet in rural Ireland's biggest annual gathering: the National Ploughing Championships, where horse-drawn ploughs and GPS-guided machinery offer contrasting visions of farming’s past and future. Veteran competitors preserve skills once passed down through generations, while...

AFP to take part in the Deauville Sport Images Festival

Running from 21 June to 21 September 2025, the Deauville Sport Images Festival offers a fresh perspective on the values of sport through photography. The work of AFP photographers will be showcased in a dedicated exhibition, A World of Sports, alongside three collective displays.

Running from 21 June to 21 September 2025, the Deauville Sport Images Festival offers a fresh perspective on the values of sport through photography. The work of AFP photographers will be showcased in a dedicated exhibition, A World of Sports, alongside three collective displays.
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Breach-Valdez Journalism Prize in Mexico: A Look Back at the Migrant Plight

Two investigations into the plight of migrants won the support of the jury members—including AFP—for this award, which honours the memory of two Mexican journalists murdered in 2017.

Two investigations into the plight of migrants won the support of the jury members—including AFP—for this award, which honours the memory of two Mexican journalists murdered in 2017.

Israël - Hamas: steady under fire

By Phil Chetwynd, AFP Global News Director

 

The Israel-Hamas war is one of the most complex and divisive stories AFP has covered. It touches historical fault lines that are generating visceral emotions in our societies, and in our newsrooms.

Pope warns against losing humanity in 'paradise of machines'

Pope Leo XIV warns against losing humanity in a "paradise of machines" as he makes his first papal trip to France with concerns high worldwide about artificial intelligence. "If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity...

India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future

In Noida, just outside New Delhi, Swami Prem Parivartan, long known as India's 'tree father', presses a young tree into the earth, continuing a nearly half-century mission to restore the country's vanishing green cover. "It is not about planting one tree or two trees or thousand trees or 500 trees. It's about how you manage the land on which those plants have been planted," the 60-year-old says. His 'Give Me Trees' trust estimates it has planted or preserved 26...