Kano (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 18:10:36 | Attack on Nigerian farming village kills at least 30: locals, Amnesty International
N'Djamena (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 16:03:48 | Chad says will withdraw from the International Criminal Court
Rome (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 15:44:02 | Italian prison guard union to ask prosecutors to probe work safety abuses: AFP exclusive
Sanaa (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 15:16:46 | Yemen's Houthis say launched drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure
Bucharest (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 15:00:08 | Romania expels Russian embassy staffer after drone incursions
Frankfurt (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:59:20 | German auto maker Porsche to cut 5,000 jobs by 2035
Madrid (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:59:05 | Fire-ravaged Spain set for days long new heatwave: weather office
Riyadh (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:49:41 | Saudi calls on Iraq to prevent attacks from its territory: state media
Brussels (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:38:26 | EU upping aircraft deployed to French fires to 11: commissioner to AFP
Riyadh (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:22:57 | Saudi forces intercept drones coming from Iraq: defence ministry
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Smialowski was awarded Third Place in the "Political Portfolio" category and a Award of Excellence in the "Politics: History in Pictures" category for his series of photos on American politics.
Nicolas Asfouri, an AFP photographer based in Beijing, won the Excellence Award in the "General News" category for his photo of a protester in the streets of Hong Kong.
Nairobi-based AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba was nominated in both the World Press Photo of the Year and the General News - Singles categories for his image of a young man reciting a poem during protests in Sudan.
The award, named after one of AFP's finest correspondents, recognises journalism by locally hired reporters in Asia operating in risky or difficult conditions.
AFP will be present at the 2020 edition of BOBCATSSS, an annual conference which deals this year with information and disinformation.
Applications closed on December 31, 2019 and we have been impressed by the very large number of candidates.
For weeks, AFP journalists from the Jerusalem bureau interviewed 10 of the last survivors of Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp that has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
