London (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 14:40:30 | China, US begin new trade talks in London: Chinese state media
Kyiv (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 14:03:03 | Zelensky says next rounds of prisoner exchange with Russia over 'coming days'
Moscow (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 13:53:04 | Russia says first stage of prisoner exchange with Ukraine completed
London (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 13:15:10 | UK govt U-turns on scrapping pensioners' heating benefit
Moscow (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 11:59:34 | Russia slams NATO 'aggression' over air defence spending call
Paris (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 11:51:15 | France to seek 'swift return' of citizens aboard Gaza-bound boat intercepted by Israel
San Francisco (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 11:39:29 | 60 people arrested in San Francisco in anti-ICE raids protests: police
Nice (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 11:28:44 | Brazil's Lula slams 'threat of unilateralism' to oceans
Beijing (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 11:27:39 | China tells citizens in LA to boost personal security over unrest
Istanbul (AFP) | 09/06/2025 - 10:46:53 | Turkey slams Israel for intercepting Gaza-bound aid boat
The Europe Prize rewards the photo of the earthquake in Turkey, which happened in February 2023. Adem Altan is also in the running for the global World Press, which will be announced on April 18th.
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.
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who have fallen" while doing their job as journalists, she explained.
Christina Assi, 29, was struck by a tank shell on October 13, 2023 while reporting on cross-border clashes between the Israeli army and armed groups in southern Lebanon, alongside six other colleagues.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is set to open its first photography gallery on September 12, debuting with an exclusive exhibition highlighting the liberation of Paris, marking the 80th anniversary of the historic event.
The AFP Gallery, located at 9 Place de la Bourse within the news agency's headquarters, will offer free exhibitions three times a year, with the aim of delivering museum-quality events to the public.
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.
A Reuters journalist was killed Friday and six others from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were wounded while working in southern Lebanon, the three news organisations said.
A group of journalists from different media outlets were near Alma al-Shaab close to the border with Israel when they were caught up in cross-border shelling, one of the two wounded AFP correspondents said.
A Lebanese security source had told AFP that initial Israeli shelling followed an infiltration attempt by a Palestinian faction from the Lebanese side of the border.
The consortium is led by Charles University in Prague and the international multidisciplinary team includes AFP and Bellingcat.
CEDMO (Central European Digital Media Observatory) has been operating since 2021 with the help of fact checkers, social science and technology researchers, and investigative journalists to analyze and understand the impact of digital transformation on society.
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who have fallen" while doing their job as journalists, she explained.
