AFP wins five National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) awards
Two AFP photographers have been awarded at NPPA Annual Awards for their pictures in the categories "Politics", "Politics Story" and "Breaking News Story".
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Tehran (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 10:04:39 | Iran Guards say 'downed' US drone entering airspace
Tehran (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 09:45:41 | Iran supreme leader says region will 'no longer serve as shields' for US bases
Beijing (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 09:33:48 | China urges 'parties concerned' to observe ceasefire after US strikes on Iran
Paris (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 06:37:19 | France logs its hottest May day on record: weather agency
Seoul (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 06:27:15 | North Korea fires 'unidentified projectile' into Yellow Sea: Seoul
Jaipur (AFP) | 26/05/2026 - 04:44:05 | Rubio says Hormuz strait will reopen 'one way or the other'
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Two AFP photographers have been awarded at NPPA Annual Awards for their pictures in the categories "Politics", "Politics Story" and "Breaking News Story".
Spectee and AFP have entered a partnership to bring Spectee’s crisis-related user generated content (UGC) to AFP’s global customer base.
MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) Pan Arab will be holding the final award ceremony and conference for the 12th edition of ‘Arab Startup Competition’ on March 29 in Beirut Lebanon. The competition brings 67 teams from the Arab world to compete in three main tracks, for a grand sum prize of USD 160,000.
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”.