AFP wins three Days Japan prizes
Three AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 Days Japan photo contest
Brussels (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 13:21:07 | EU gives preliminary approval to unblock 90-bn-euro Ukraine loan: official
Kyiv (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 12:31:19 | Ukraine has restarted Russian oil pipeline to Hungary, Slovakia
Tehran (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 12:18:58 | Iran Guards say 'seized' two ships attempting to cross Strait of Hormuz
Kathmandu (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 11:28:23 | Nepal's under-fire home minister Sudan Gurung says he has resigned
Berlin (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 10:56:05 | Russia to block flow of Kazakh oil to German refinery, Berlin says
Jerusalem (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 10:54:18 | Israel FM calls on Lebanon to 'work together' with Israel against Hezbollah
Dubai (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 10:03:53 | Cargo ship leaving Iran fired upon, stopped in water: maritime agency
Kyiv (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 09:46:45 | Ukraine to restart Russian oil pipeline to Europe 'within a few hours'
Beijing (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 09:31:28 | China warns Middle East at 'critical juncture' after Trump extends ceasefire
London (AFP) | 22/04/2026 - 08:17:07 | UK inflation jumps in March as Mideast war fuels energy prices
Three AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 Days Japan photo contest
Two AFP photographers – Jim Watson and Saul Loeb – were awarded at the 2016 ceremony of the WHNPA.
Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
AFP is further developing its global fact-checking operations through a major new contract with Facebook covering the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is being added to fact-checking in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese that is carried out by AFP teams in 16 countries throughout the world.
From 27 August to 11 September 2016, the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan will showcase Aris Messinis’s coverage of migrants landing on the beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos.
A new segment on the French television channel TF1’s Saturday evening news programme will show viewers how AFP journalists debunked a fake news story.
Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis was honoured Saturday at photojournalism's biggest annual festival, for moving images of the massive arrival of migrants in Greece last year.
Global news agency AFP has opened a bureau in North Korea, becoming one of only a handful of foreign media organisations to have a permanent presence in the one of the world’s most isolated states.