AFP to support World News Day 2024
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
Buenos Aires (AFP) | 13/05/2026 - 00:06:20 | Tens of thousands demonstrate in Argentina over Milei university cuts
Beirut (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 23:04:58 | Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strikes in the south
Tehran (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 22:03:00 | Iran says Kuwait claims it tried to infiltrate island 'baseless'
Aboard Air Force One (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:51:16 | Trump takes off on long-awaited China trip
Washington (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:28:56 | Trump 'Golden Dome' missile shield could cost $1.2 tn over 20 years: budget office
Washington (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:14:05 | Trump announces departure of food and drug regulation chief
Washington (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:11:09 | Trump vows to free all Venezuelan political prisoners
Washington (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:10:16 | Trump insists inflation surge 'short term,' policies working
Cannes (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 20:05:55 | Jane Fonda and Gong Li open Cannes Film Festival
Washington (AFP) | 12/05/2026 - 19:59:21 | Trump says will have 'long talk' with Xi on Iran
SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, today announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260428587163/en/SCX brings sovereign AI to the Equ...
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
On 19 and 20 September, AFP took part in the annual General Assembly of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas), the influential association of Argentine media, held in Posadas, in the north of the country.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio.
Meyer, 43, currently holds the position of Global Editor-in-Chief for Video and is the first journalist from the video department to step into this management role. He succeeds Juliette Hollier-Larousse, who has held the position since 2017.
AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of resistance journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over five days before Paris was liberated.
By Juliette Baillot
It was August 20, 1944, two days after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.
A surfer soaring above the clouds, a BMX champion riding up the Concorde obelisk, the first-ever Olympic dive into the Seine... AFP photographers tell us how they captured some of the incredible images from the Paris Olympic Games.
By Marine Do-Vale
- Levitating surfer -
It's one of the most widely used images from the Games: Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly levitating above the waves, finger to the sky, surfboard vertically behind him.
His eye-popping picture of a BMX ace seemingly riding to the top of an ancient Egyptian obelisk on his bike during the Paris Olympics has gone around the world.
Argentina's Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. © Jeff Pachoud / AFP