Newsflare joins AFP's partner video collections
AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
Kyiv (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 19:39:59 | Zelensky accuses Russia of playing 'dirty, political' game over POW swap
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 19:05:05 | Israel military says identified body of Hamas Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar
London (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 17:10:53 | UK to announce plans to extend ban on seabed trawling
Dakar (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 15:34:32 | Wagner replaced by Russia's Africa Corp in Mali: diplomatic sources
Bogotá (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 15:25:45 | Powerful 6.3 magnitude quake shakes Bogota: AFP
Kyiv (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 14:45:18 | Ukraine says POW exchange with Russia to take place 'next week'
Jerusalem (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 13:57:44 | Israel orders military to block aid boat from reaching Gaza
Moscow (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 10:48:37 | Russia says pushing offensive into Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region
Bogotá (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 09:59:54 | Colombian presidential candidate successfully underwent surgery after shooting: mayor
Washington (AFP) | 08/06/2025 - 04:37:58 | Rubio blames 'violent leftist rhetoric' for Colombia assassination attempt
AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Mistral AI have formed a partnership that will provide Mistral's conversational AI assistant, Le Chat, with access to the full range of AFP's text stories. This collaboration will allow users to receive more informed and up-to-date responses, underpinned by content that meets the highest journalistic standards.
With the German parliamentary elections scheduled for 23 February, the campaigning, which began in early 2025, has already been marked by widespread misinformation on social networks. There have also been direct attempts at foreign interference, potentially undermining voter confidence.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Karl Malakunas, currently Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor-in-Chief, to lead its new Philanthropic Partnerships Initiative, starting on February 1. The initiative aims to raise funds and build relationships with philanthropic institutions, such as charitable foundations and non-profits, that support media projects aligned with AFP’s values and objectives.
Poverty, hunger, the effects of climate change and armed conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, mean that the number of migrants trying to reach Europe, continues to rise.
After a three-year hiatus, the “Marai Photo Award” becomes the “Marai Photo Grant” in 2025. The award is organised by Agence France-Presse in honour of Shah Marai, former photo chief at AFP in Kabul. Shah Marai, who was an inspiration for Afghan photographers throughout his career, was killed in the line of duty at the age of 41 in a suicide attack on April 30, 2018 in Kabul.
Agence France-Presse detected an attack on its IT systems on Friday, affecting part of its delivery service to clients. It is not yet known who carried out this attack or why.
AFP's technical teams are working on the incident with the support of the French National Agency for IT Systems Security (ANSSI). The relevant authorities in France have been notified.
We are currently working to analyse and deal with this incident.
AFP's newsroom and all its services continue to provide news coverage across the world.
Leading global news agency AFP has released master certificates for its online training platform on tackling misinformation, announced at GlobalFact 11 fact-checking conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on June 26.
The new position aims to anticipate major events and trends, as well as further develop coverage of the ‘Future of the Planet’, which has been a key editorial priority at the Agency for several years already.