AFP, a partner in Women’s Forum Brazil 2013
For the second year in a row, AFP is participating in Women’s Forum Brazil on 17 and 18 June in São Paolo.
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Moscow (AFP) | 18/08/2026 - 06:01:47 | Several wounded as 620 drones launched towards Moscow region
Sydney (AFP) | 18/08/2026 - 05:59:33 | Japan's defence minister says cooperation with US, S.Korea 'critical' for region
Sydney (AFP) | 18/08/2026 - 05:49:50 | Australia 'very concerned' about North Korean nuclear programme: defence minister
Manila (AFP) | 18/08/2026 - 04:53:19 | Philippine student killed in rare school shooting: mayor
Lusaka (AFP) | 18/08/2026 - 02:44:40 | Zambia's Hichilema wins re-election with 60% of vote: electoral body
New York (AFP) | 17/08/2026 - 22:20:34 | Mangione state murder trial postponed after federal guilty plea
Washington (AFP) | 17/08/2026 - 21:51:43 | Trump envoy predicts Hamas disarmament progress in about 30 days
Tehran (AFP) | 17/08/2026 - 20:18:00 | Iran condemns 'suspicious' drone attack on Iraqi Kurdistan PM's office
Brasília (AFP) | 17/08/2026 - 20:00:49 | Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil after teen's suicide
For the second year in a row, AFP is participating in Women’s Forum Brazil on 17 and 18 June in São Paolo.
Two contrasting photo exhibitions by AFP will be featured in the International Photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image which runs from August 30 to September 14 2014 in Perpignan, France. One showcases AFP’s prize-winning coverage of Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines in November 2013, and the other features images taken by children in a Rio favela on the eve of the FIFA World Cup.
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.
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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.