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) | 29/06/2026 - 09:10:54 | Iran says held first meeting with Oman on managing Hormuz
Kabul (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 08:17:39 | Pakistani strikes kill 36 civilians, wound 163: Afghan govt
Seoul (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 07:55:25 | South Korea to invest nearly $650 billion in AI data centres by 2035: minister
Seoul (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 07:29:55 | South Korea announces $518 billion semiconductor investment
Canberra (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 04:40:14 | Australia, Vanuatu sign deal barring foreign military base on Pacific island
Beijing (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 04:24:42 | China adds 20 Japanese entities to export blacklist: commerce ministry
Washington (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 04:19:09 | US says Iran talks to continue, 'both sides' pausing strikes
Kabul (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 02:57:39 | Afghan govt says dozens of civilian casualties in Pakistani strikes
Islamabad (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 02:25:41 | Pakistan says carried out new strikes in Afghanistan targeting militants
Beirut (AFP) | 29/06/2026 - 00:37:31 | Hezbollah says reserves right to 'defend its homeland'
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.