Moscow (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 10:47:30 | Putin greets North Korean military personnel at Red Square parade
Cairo (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 10:39:06 | Hamas met Gaza mediators this week but 'no progress': sources
Warsaw (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 10:34:50 | Tusk hails mutual security pledges in new France-Poland treaty
Oslo (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 10:22:58 | UK, northern European nations support Ukraine 30-day ceasefire: Norway PM
Tokyo (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:45:22 | Japan's Panasonic says targeting 10,000 job cuts worldwide
Tehran (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:42:19 | Iran FM to visit Saudi, Qatar ahead of Trump regional tour
Moscow (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:37:59 | Putin says Russia will always fight 'Nazism, Russophobia, anti-Semitism'
Moscow (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:37:58 | Putin says 'whole' of Russia backs Ukraine offensive
Beijing (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:26:45 | China congratulates Pope Leo on election, hopes for 'dialogue'
Moscow (AFP) | 09/05/2025 - 09:10:58 | Russia's Victory Day parade on Red Square starts
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Paul-Louis Bret considers that AFI can represent what remains of free French public opinion, with the capacity to criticise the Vichy regime. The AFI reaches an agreement with the British Ministry of Information and Reuters to broadcast a daily French language service of around 10,000 words across free Europe.
Liberated France’s first dispatch is
issued on August 20, 1944.
OFI is renamed Agence France-Presse.
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The AFP photo service is created in 1944 by freelance photographers Georges Mélamed, André Raimbaud and Robert Palat, who cover the Liberation of Paris.
The Belinograph, invented in 1907 by Edouard Belin, transmits images by telephone and radio links.
