AFP signs historic company agreement
Berlin (AFP) | 26/07/2026 - 03:09:54 | Berlin police say Gay Pride crowd crash suspect identified, believed 'linked to Islamist circles'
Berlin (AFP) | 26/07/2026 - 00:54:21 | Merz vows to punish 'horrific act' after attack near Berlin Gay Pride
Berlin (AFP) | 26/07/2026 - 00:44:54 | Berlin mayor denounces attack near Gay Pride event
Bordeaux (AFP) | 26/07/2026 - 00:05:18 | French officials order 55,000 more fire evacuations near Bordeaux: prefecture
Berlin (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 23:44:22 | One dead after car suspected of hitting crowd near Berlin Gay Pride
Madrid (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 23:33:55 | Spanish officials order fresh evacuations near Toledo as fires rage
Berlin (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 23:01:53 | Several injured near Berlin Gay Pride event: police
Sao Paulo (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 21:49:16 | Brazil denies visas for US delegation seeking election talks: diplomatic source
Sao Paulo (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 19:31:04 | Flavio Bolsonaro formally nominated for Brazil's presidential race
Paris (AFP) | 25/07/2026 - 19:16:31 | 'We will rebuild' after France fires: Macron
Seven AFP photojournalists win awards at the 74th Pictures Of the Year international (POYi).
The 2017 World Press Photo jury awarded prizes to three AFP photo journalists.
With the French presidential election approaching, AFP is taking part in two initiatives aimed at fighting fake news. The Agency is joining initiatives by the First Draft network, which is launching the CrossCheck project, and Facebook, with its fact checking tool that is incorporated into the social network.
At the 20 December 2016 Meeting of AFP's Board of Directors, Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog presented a business development plan focusing on two priorities: video and corporate. AFP will also build up its range of live products in line with its objective of being, now more than ever, the real time news agency.
Journalism students across the continent will be able to enter the African Fact-Checking Awards next year, organisers announced late Thursday, as they named reporters from Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon as winners of the top fact-checking prizes this year.
Will Vassilopoulos, AFP stringer since 2011, has won the prestigious Rory Peck Award which each year recognises the work of the best freelance video journalists.
Independent Afghan TV news station Tolo has won the 2016 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for its consistently fearless work reporting in one of the world's most dangerous countries.
AFP photographers have swept the 2016 Spot News awards, and have also received distinctions in the Feature and News Picture Story categories.