Agence France-Presse (AFP) has called on both Israeli and Lebanese authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation to determine the circumstances behind and responsibility for firing along their border that killed and wounded journalists on assignment in southern Lebanon.

A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other journalists were injured, including two from AFP, near the village of Alma al-Shaab on Friday.

The Israeli military announced on Saturday that they are “looking into” the incident, without taking responsibility.

AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who have fallen" while doing their job as journalists, she explained.

Christina Assi, 29, was struck by a tank shell on October 13, 2023 while reporting on cross-border clashes between the Israeli army and armed groups in southern Lebanon, alongside six other colleagues.

The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) and Agence France-Presse (AFP) have entered into a partnership that will give European fact-checkers access to AFP content for publication.

Through the partnership, AFP, as a co-founder and verified member of the EFCSN, provides other EFCSN members access to the AFP News platform at preferred conditions.

Agence France-Presse detected an attack on its IT systems on Friday, affecting part of its delivery service to clients. It is not yet known who carried out this attack or why.

AFP's technical teams are working on the incident with the support of the French National Agency for IT Systems Security (ANSSI). The relevant authorities in France have been notified.

We are currently working to analyse and deal with this incident.

AFP's newsroom and all its services continue to provide news coverage across the world.

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.

AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, has strongly condemned the strike that severely damaged the Agency’s office in Gaza on Thursday, November 2nd.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) partners with Canon to train twenty young photographers in capturing different facets of rugby culture across all participating nations of the Rugby World Cup.

Equipped with professional cameras and lens kits provided by Canon, a key partner in the initiative, each of the twenty participants paired up with a seasoned AFP photojournalist ahead of the Rugby World Cup.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) announces the appointment of Fleur Laurent as Managing Director of its subsidiary company FACTSTORY, an agency specialised in multimedia content production.

Fleur Laurent, 35, held various roles in business development and marketing within AFP, before joining FACTSTORY, where she became Deputy Managing Director in January this year.

The 44-year-old photojournalist was honoured for his work in Gaza, where, despite danger and fear of being targeted, he has worked tirelessly to document the first months of the war triggered by Hamas's attack on southern Israel on 7 October.

An Agence France-Presse investigation into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured several others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell used only by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region.