AFP, the world leader in digital verification, is expanding its fact-checking operations in the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand via a new partnership with the global short-form mobile video platform TikTok.

AFP is strengthening its position as the world leader in digital verification by moving into three new countries: Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Based in Berlin and Vienna, the new German team will work alongside AFP’s German-speaking journalists to debunk and tackle disinformation being spread on social media in these three countries.

AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba has won the top prize at the World Press Photo Awards 2020, which also gave awards to three other photojournalists from the Agency this year.

Photographer Guillermo Arias has won the Visa d'or News award, the highest prize given at the "Visa pour l'Image" festival. The 31st occasion of the world's leading photojournalism event came to its conclusion in Perpignan on saturday. The prize recognise Guillermo Arias's work which focuses on the migrant caravans in Central America.

The 31st edition of the international photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image takes place from august 31 to September 15, 2019 in Perpignan, with exhibitions of works by AFP photographers Guillermo Arias and Ed Jones at the Couvent des Minimes.

Italy's leading news agency, ANSA, signs an agreement to buy AFP's international news service in video, photo and text.