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.
Warsaw (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 17:04:50 | Poland breaks heat record at 40.5C: weather service
Berlin (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 16:31:30 | Germany records new all-time temperature high of 41.7C
Moscow (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 15:32:49 | Putin vows to ensure Russia's security amid Ukraine retaliatory strikes
Prague (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 15:25:44 | Czech Republic marks new temperature record of 41.1C
Geneva (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 14:45:50 | More than 1,300 excess deaths recorded in Europe heatwave: WHO
Baghdad (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 14:42:00 | Iraq arrests 47 officials in anti-corruption campaign: state media
Riyadh (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 14:24:04 | Aramco helicopter crash kills 14 in Saudi Arabia
Strasbourg (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 14:01:09 | Civilian plane crash kills 11 in eastern France: local authorities
Strasbourg (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 13:28:14 | Civilian aircraft crashes in eastern France, possible fatalities: local media
Jerusalem (AFP) | 28/06/2026 - 12:53:07 | Israel govt recognises Armenian genocide in rebuke to Turkey
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.