AFP to support World News Day 2024
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
Kyiv (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 08:46:04 | Ukraine says Russia launched largest drone, missile attack of war
Istanbul (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 08:45:25 | Political framework key for successful PKK-Turkey peace process: Ocalan
Gaza City (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 08:17:27 | Gaza civil defence says 20 killed in Israeli air strikes
Paris (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 06:01:10 | Climate change made European heatwave up to 4C hotter: study
Guatemala City (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 05:25:27 | Earthquakes in Guatemala leave two dead
Paris (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 04:01:08 | June was hottest on record in western Europe: EU monitor
Beijing (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 03:44:06 | China's says consumer prices rose in June after four-month slide
Moscow (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 01:37:12 | Three dead from Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Kursk region: governor
Guadalajara (AFP) | 09/07/2025 - 01:14:57 | 10 Mexican cartel gunmen sentenced to 141 years in prison
Windsor (AFP) | 08/07/2025 - 23:00:04 | Macron hails UK-French 'entente amicale' in state banquet toast
Global communications platform Infobip has been recognized among the top 75 companies in Fortune’s inaugural ranking of Europe’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025. It holds the position of number 68, placing it in the top 25% of all listed companies. This distinction reflects Infobip’s ongoing commitment to advancing Europe’s IT sector and digital infrastructure through cutting-edge innovation. The first Fortune Europe’s Most Innovative Companies list, created in collaboration with Statista,...
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
On 19 and 20 September, AFP took part in the annual General Assembly of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas), the influential association of Argentine media, held in Posadas, in the north of the country.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio.
Meyer, 43, currently holds the position of Global Editor-in-Chief for Video and is the first journalist from the video department to step into this management role. He succeeds Juliette Hollier-Larousse, who has held the position since 2017.
AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of resistance journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over five days before Paris was liberated.
By Juliette Baillot
It was August 20, 1944, two days after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.
A surfer soaring above the clouds, a BMX champion riding up the Concorde obelisk, the first-ever Olympic dive into the Seine... AFP photographers tell us how they captured some of the incredible images from the Paris Olympic Games.
By Marine Do-Vale
- Levitating surfer -
It's one of the most widely used images from the Games: Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly levitating above the waves, finger to the sky, surfboard vertically behind him.
His eye-popping picture of a BMX ace seemingly riding to the top of an ancient Egyptian obelisk on his bike during the Paris Olympics has gone around the world.
Argentina's Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. © Jeff Pachoud / AFP
AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet knew to expect fireworks when he saw Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina paddle into one of the day's biggest waves at one of the world's heaviest surf breaks.
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the presentation of new oncology data across more than 12 tumor types at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, May 31 to June 4 in Chicago. The presentations include the Phase 3 MANEUVER data for potentially best-in-class pimicotinib in the treatment of the rare tumor TGCT, as well as data from both company- and investigator-sponsored studies highlighting the company’s focus on advancing differentia...