Topshots of the Week (7-13 September, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from September 7th to September 13th, 2024.
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
Paris (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:16:31 | Macron heads to fire-ravaged southwest France: office
Warsaw (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 14:03:28 | Woman who died in Berlin Pride festival attack was Polish: ministry
N'Djamena (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 13:04:43 | Chad says will withdraw from the International Criminal Court
Beijing (AFP) | 27/07/2026 - 13:03:28 | Beijing accuses US AI companies of training models on Chinese examples
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from September 7th to September 13th, 2024.
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.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (21-28 April, 2023).
Natalia Sawka and Maja Czarnecka, from the AFP Warsaw bureau, have received an award for their fact-checking work.
AFP Bangkok-based photographer Lillian Suwanrumpha has won the Award of Excellence in the Portrait Series category of the Pictures of the Year Asia 2023.
On April 20, 2023 the exhibition "Quoi de neuf à l'Est" ("What's new in the East") was launched at cultural centre CWB in Kinshasa. The exhibition shows the work of Alexis Huguet, AFP photojournalist based in Kinshasa, which focuses on the wave of violence in eastern DRC from 2018 to 2023.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 April, 2023).
At its meeting on 20 April 2023, AFP's Board of Directors approved the accounts for the 2022 financial year, which confirm the Agency's continued financial recovery.
Leading global news agency AFP releases an online training course to equip journalists and journalism students with tools and techniques to tackle climate misinformation.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (8-14 April, 2023).