AFP wins the Photo of the Year Award at the Istanbul Photo Awards
AFP is also rewarded with the 1st prize in the "News Story" category during the 2019 edition of the competition.
Tehran (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 18:29:49 | Iran foreign ministry says appreciates Pakistan's efforts to end war
Mexico City (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 16:58:40 | Sheinbaum says Mexican military unaware of US agents
Zurich (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 16:34:10 | Swiss want UBS to raise its capital reserves by extra $20 bn
Kyiv (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 15:51:11 | Zelensky hails progress on EU loan to Ukraine as 'the right signal'
Paris (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 15:40:11 | Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah: Macron
Athens (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 15:35:02 | Greek parliament lifts immunity of MPs probed in EU farm scandal
Moscow (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 15:04:18 | Russia confirms suspending Kazakh oil transit to Germany, citing 'technical' reasons
Frankfurt (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 14:26:19 | Germany halves 2026 growth forecast on Iran war fallout
New York (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:47:41 | Boeing reports small loss, points to progress on turnaround
Beirut (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:47:39 | Lebanon to request one-month truce extension in Israel meeting: official to AFP
AFP is also rewarded with the 1st prize in the "News Story" category during the 2019 edition of the competition.
AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.
The leading German sports news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst (SID), a subsidiary of AFP, is launching a pilot project to test the automatic writing of sports fixture lists in conjunction with German technology partner aexea. The aim is to explore the possibility of producing sports news with technology which uses a data base and algorithms.
Journalists from around the globe seized a rare chance Wednesday to plead before the UN Security Council for action over the growing numbers of assassinated reporters.
Thony Belizaire, who won numerous awards while working as Agence France-Presse's photographer in his native Haiti for more than 25 years, died on Sunday. He was 54.
Development of a range of services dedicated to mobile telephony providers.
Mobile services
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Québec’s Laval University today signed a partnership agreement under which AFP pledged to host trainee journalists at bureaux within its international network and contribute to the University’s journalism courses.