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.
Bogotá (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 15:12:14 | 6.6 magnitude quake rocks Colombia: geological agency
Warsaw (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 14:01:13 | Poland's Vistula river drops to historic low in Warsaw: official
Dhaka (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 13:56:00 | Dhaka says 16 Bangladeshis killed in Saudi factory fire
Madrid (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 10:53:44 | July was Spain's hottest month on record: weather agency
London (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 10:32:59 | Record July heat in regions home to 900 mn people: AFP analysis of Copernicus data
Tehran (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 09:54:43 | Iran says Saudi-Pakistan–Turkey deal shows 'change in perception' towards US
Jakarta (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 09:16:38 | Indonesian president nominates acting head to lead central bank
Kyiv (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 09:07:33 | 5 killed in Russian attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv region: official
Moscow (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 08:58:22 | Ukraine drone strike kills 12, wounds 39 in central Russia: official
Quito (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 06:00:08 | Eight dismembered bodies found in illegal Ecuador mine: police
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.