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Shanghai, China | March 28-29
Jerusalem (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 14:02:38 | Aid groups petition Israel's top court to halt ban on Gaza, West Bank ops
Washington (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 13:56:01 | Meta, AMD agree to major chips deal: statement
Beirut (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 13:48:00 | Lebanese army says Israel targeted perimeter of its position in south
London (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 13:25:11 | UK fines Reddit nearly $20 mn over children's data failures
Dakar (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 13:10:07 | Senegal PM vows to double penalty for same-sex relations
Geneva (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 13:05:07 | Lebanon fears Israel attack on its infrastructure if escalation with Iran
Paris (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 12:47:55 | Macron tells allies 'sceptical' about any short-term peace in Ukraine
Sao Paulo (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 12:47:18 | Heavy rain in Brazil kills at least 14: authorities
Tehran (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 12:42:27 | Revolutionary Guards conduct military drills in Iran's south: state TV
Paris (AFP) | 24/02/2026 - 11:50:57 | Russian gains in 4th year of Ukraine war exceeded previous 2 years combined: AFP analysis of ISW data
Shanghai, China | March 28-29
Two AFP photographers have been awarded at NPPA Annual Awards for their pictures in the categories "Politics", "Politics Story" and "Breaking News Story".
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”.