Bangkok (AFP) | 03/10/2025 - 05:21:45 | Cambodian ex-MP's killer jailed for life in Thailand: judge
Rabat (AFP) | 03/10/2025 - 04:00:59 | Group leading Morocco protests calls for govt to step down
Berlin (AFP) | 03/10/2025 - 03:51:22 | Munich airport halts flights after drone sightings: police to AFP
Caracas (AFP) | 03/10/2025 - 00:48:53 | Venezuela slams 'illegal incursion' by US fighter jets: govt
Buenos Aires (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 23:55:48 | New setback for Milei as Argentine Congress overturns spending vetoes
London (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 22:39:43 | Manchester synagogue attacker is a UK citizen of Syrian origin: police
New York (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 22:07:53 | US stocks end at records as US government shutdown drags on
Sochi (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 21:09:14 | Putin warns of new escalation if US supplies Tomahawks to Ukraine
Jerusalem (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 20:26:31 | Over 400 activists from Gaza flotilla detained: Israeli official
Caracas (AFP) | 02/10/2025 - 20:08:36 | US fighter jets flew close to Venezuela's shores: defense minister
AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Mistral AI have formed a partnership that will provide Mistral's conversational AI assistant, Le Chat, with access to the full range of AFP's text stories. This collaboration will allow users to receive more informed and up-to-date responses, underpinned by content that meets the highest journalistic standards.
With the German parliamentary elections scheduled for 23 February, the campaigning, which began in early 2025, has already been marked by widespread misinformation on social networks. There have also been direct attempts at foreign interference, potentially undermining voter confidence.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Karl Malakunas, currently Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor-in-Chief, to lead its new Philanthropic Partnerships Initiative, starting on February 1. The initiative aims to raise funds and build relationships with philanthropic institutions, such as charitable foundations and non-profits, that support media projects aligned with AFP’s values and objectives.
Poverty, hunger, the effects of climate change and armed conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, mean that the number of migrants trying to reach Europe, continues to rise.
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.
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 continues to assert its leading role in digital investigations and the fight against misinformation worldwide at the international fact-checking summit from 26th to 28th June.
Palestinian AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize on Saturday for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza. The prize, one of the most prestigious in the field of photojournalism, is supported by the Visa pour l’Image Association - Perpignan.
Amidst the bombings, with death ever-present and the constant fear of being targeted, Mahmud Hams, who has worked for AFP for over two decades in the Palestinian territories, has relentlessly continued to document the war ignited by Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
