Kashmir journalist wins AFP’s Kate Webb Prize
The award, named after one of AFP's finest correspondents, recognises journalism by locally hired reporters in Asia operating in risky or difficult conditions.
Beirut (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 19:08:25 | US embassy says Iran, aligned groups 'may intend to target' universities in Lebanon
Dubai (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 17:29:04 | Emirates Global Aluminium says may need a year to resume production after attack
Havana (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 17:12:36 | Cuba begins prisoner release after mass pardon: AFP journalists
Jerusalem (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 17:04:41 | Israel military announces 'wide-scale wave' of strikes in Tehran
Beirut (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 16:56:13 | Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs after warning
Moscow (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 16:49:22 | Putin, Erdogan urge immediate Mideast ceasefire: Kremlin
Rome (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 16:19:42 | Italian PM begins visit to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar
Beirut (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 15:22:38 | UN force says 3 peacekeepers wounded in blast inside south Lebanon position
Tehran (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 15:17:16 | Iran media says army searching for pilot of downed US fighter jet
Washington (AFP) | 03/04/2026 - 15:01:44 | White House requests giant $1.5 trillion defense budget amid Iran war
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.
As part of its series of exclusive multimedia special reports, AFP is broadcasting a special report on Antarctica to mark the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, as well as the 60 year anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty signed on December 1st 1959 in Washington.
The 2019 edition of News Xchange, , the international annual meeting of the media industry, was held in France on the 20th and 21st of November.