The 24 Hours of Le Mans race ("24 Heures du Mans" in French) will celebrate its centenary this year, during its 2023 edition on June 10-11. The internationally famous sports car race is held annually near the town of Le Mans, France, and it represents the world's oldest active endurance racing event.

For the 4th year running, AFP is partnering La Gacilly Photo Festival, which takes place from June 1 to October 1, 2023 in the Breton village.

The festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year – the theme of the event is Nature as Heritage, a reminder of its mission to work towards a more responsible world.

The French embassy in Hanoi hosted AFP’s "Road to 2024" exhibition, featuring 24 of our photos celebrating the Games and the Olympic spirit.

These exceptional shots were taken by AFP photographers at past Olympic competitions and at events leading up to the next Games to be held in Paris in 2024.

Beyond the sporting performances, our exhibition highlights the determination, courage and emotion of the athletes and allows us to imagine what the upcoming competitions in Paris will be like.

Arman Soldin was barely a year old when his mother carried him onto a humanitarian flight from war-torn Bosnia to France. On Tuesday, another conflict claimed the unshakeably smiling AFP video journalist's life in Ukraine.

AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine. If you wish to pay tribute to him, send us your message and we'll publish it here.

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AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said.

The attack happened at around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) on the outskirts of the town close to Bakhmut, the epicentre of the fighting in eastern Ukraine for several months.

Natalia Sawka and Maja Czarnecka, from the AFP Warsaw bureau, have received an award for their fact-checking work.

Natalia and Maja received their prize, along with other Polish fact-checking organizations, from the Press Club Polska at a ceremony at the Bellotto Hotel in Warsaw on April 26.

On April 20, 2023 the exhibition "Quoi de neuf à l'Est" ("What's new in the East") was launched at cultural centre CWB in Kinshasa. The exhibition shows the work of Alexis Huguet, AFP photojournalist based in Kinshasa, which focuses on the wave of violence in eastern DRC from 2018 to 2023.

Karl Malakunas’s award-winning documentary on land defenders in the Philippines, Delikado, will have its European broadcast premiere on Arte this Saturday, April 22, to coincide with Earth Day. Broadcast times are 11.15am in France and 12.05pm in Germany. Delikado will be also available online at arte.tv

The International Journalism Festival 2023 took place from 19 to 23 April in Perugia, Italy.

AFP Global News Director Phil Chetwynd attended two conferences:

• "Climate journalism that works: what newsrooms need to know to have an impact" on Thursday, April 20, at 4pm (CET).