AFP: Michèle Léridon appointed Global News Director
Emmanuel Hoog, President and CEO of AFP, this morning announced the appointment of Michèle Léridon as the Agency's Global News Director
Riyadh (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 03:56:01 | Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli 'aggression' against Syria
Kuwait City (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 03:24:39 | Kuwait military says air defences responding to missile attack
Jerusalem (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 03:12:38 | Israel military says striking 'regime targets' in Tehran
Jerusalem (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 01:27:51 | Israel military says striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut
Beirut (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 01:11:58 | Lebanon state media says Israeli strike kills one in south
Riyadh (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 01:10:10 | Saudi Arabia intercepts 10 drones in east: defence ministry
Washington (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 00:35:20 | US green-lights delivery and sale of Iranian oil already at sea
Jerusalem (AFP) | 21/03/2026 - 00:22:18 | Israel military says new wave of missiles fired from Iran
San Francisco (AFP) | 20/03/2026 - 23:30:49 | US jury finds Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders: media
Seoul (AFP) | 20/03/2026 - 23:20:53 | 10 dead in fire at South Korea car parts plant: Yonhap
Emmanuel Hoog, President and CEO of AFP, this morning announced the appointment of Michèle Léridon as the Agency's Global News Director
News agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has awarded the 2014 Kate Webb Prize for frontline journalism to Philippines reporter Patricia Evangelista for her courageous coverage of a Moslem insurgency and the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
Michel Moutot, an AFP journalist since 1985, receives the Albert
Londres prize for his reporting of the Kosovo conflict throughout 1998.
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award goes to Fabio Bucciarelli and the "National Press Photographers Association" (NPPA) honors four AFP photographer-reporters in its annual "the Best of photojournalism" competition.
Spanish photographer José Manuel López has won prizes in three news categories in the Px3 Paris photo awards* for his coverage of the massacre of young men in the Syrian civil war. His shocking images of bodies pulled out of the Quweig river in Aleppo earned him a gold medal in the category “Press-General News”, a silver medal in “Press-War” and third place in the overall “Px3 Paris photography prize”.
This award, in association with Shutterstock, honors Britain's most talented photographers and videojournalists, and recognise outstanding photography from the world of news, royalty, sport, business, fashion and entertainment.
Re-elected as AFP chairman on October 24, 2003.
A work of reference illustrating the photography service's expansion.
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Emmanuel Marcovitch, Deputy Managing Director of AFP, has been appointed as the agency’s Administrative and Financial Director.
AFP & VALOTA HAVE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT FOR DELIVERING AFP’S NEWS CONTENT TO DIGITAL SIGNAGE SCREENS GLOBALLY THROUGH VALOTALIVE.COM SERVICE.