AFP to support World News Day 2024
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
Jerusalem (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 15:36:48 | Israel army chief vows in Lebanon to seize opportunity to dismantle Hezbollah
Paris (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 15:26:25 | G7 trade ministers decry 'economic coercion'
Paris (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 15:14:30 | France resumes genocide probe against Rwanda ex-president's widow
Kyiv (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 15:12:24 | Zelensky says Hungary returned assets seized from Ukraine bank workers
Beersheva (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 15:00:09 | Israeli court rejects flotilla activists' appeal challenging detention: lawyer
Geneva (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 14:42:50 | WHO chief tells AFP hantavirus outbreak not like start of Covid pandemic
Madrid (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 14:33:05 | Hantavirus ship will dock at Granadilla in Tenerife: Spanish minister
Brussels (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 14:21:13 | Hantavirus ship owner has requested to dock Saturday in Tenerife: Canary Islands official
Praia (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 14:07:54 | Air ambulance for suspected hantavirus patients leaves Cape Verde: AFP
Washington (AFP) | 06/05/2026 - 14:04:21 | Trump threatens 'higher level' bombing Iran if deal not agreed
SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, today announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260428587163/en/SCX brings sovereign AI to the Equ...
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
On 19 and 20 September, AFP took part in the annual General Assembly of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas), the influential association of Argentine media, held in Posadas, in the north of the country.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio.
Meyer, 43, currently holds the position of Global Editor-in-Chief for Video and is the first journalist from the video department to step into this management role. He succeeds Juliette Hollier-Larousse, who has held the position since 2017.
AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of resistance journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over five days before Paris was liberated.
By Juliette Baillot
It was August 20, 1944, two days after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.
A surfer soaring above the clouds, a BMX champion riding up the Concorde obelisk, the first-ever Olympic dive into the Seine... AFP photographers tell us how they captured some of the incredible images from the Paris Olympic Games.
By Marine Do-Vale
- Levitating surfer -
It's one of the most widely used images from the Games: Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly levitating above the waves, finger to the sky, surfboard vertically behind him.
His eye-popping picture of a BMX ace seemingly riding to the top of an ancient Egyptian obelisk on his bike during the Paris Olympics has gone around the world.
Argentina's Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. © Jeff Pachoud / AFP