Shefali Khan and Aakash Gulzar: Winners of the Marai Photo Grant 2026 Announced
The 2026 Marai Photo Grant winners have been announced.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 18:50:12 | Pope to return to Rome on plane offered by Spanish king: Vatican
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 18:38:30 | Plane sent from Madrid to Canaries to take pope home: Iberia
Islamabad (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 18:26:22 | Mediator Pakistan says Iran-US peace deal text 'agreed'
New York (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 18:25:56 | SpaceX shares up more than 20 percent in market debut
New York (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 18:00:39 | Elon Musk world's first trillionaire after SpaceX debut: Bloomberg
New York (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 17:52:12 | SpaceX shares rise 11 percent in first trading on Wall Street
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 17:41:37 | Pope exits plane on Spain's Canary Islands due to technical problem: AFP journalist
Tehran (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 17:15:22 | US-Iran deal 'never been closer': Iranian FM
Moscow (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 16:40:41 | Putin says Ukraine drone strikes aim to divide Russians
Washington (AFP) | 12/06/2026 - 16:38:33 | Iran agrees to dismantle nuclear program under deal: White House official
The 2026 Marai Photo Grant winners have been announced.
Vast tracts of Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans have been cleared for plantations supplying a maker of "carbon-neutral" packaging, an investigation by AFP and The Gecko Project has found.
AFP’s board approved the 2025 accounts at its meeting of April 16, 2026.
Loïc Venance and Valéry Hache have been honoured at the 2026 edition of the AIPS Sport Media Awards, organised by the International Sports Press Association.
The famous photojournalism competition has announced the regional winners of its 2026 edition. AFP photographer Luis Tato has been recognised in the Stories category for Africa for his coverage of Madagascar's protests.
April 2 is the International Fact-Checking Day, a celebration to acknowledge the tireless work done by organisations across the world to promote information integrity and fight disinformation and manipulation, in a time of mounting pressures.

Spectee and AFP have entered a partnership to bring Spectee’s crisis-related user generated content (UGC) to AFP’s global customer base.
AFP hosted the second meeting of the European DS4Skills consortium on 5 March. Launched in January 2025, this project, supported by the European Commission under the Digital Europe programme, aims to develop a shared data space dedicated to training pathways and the evolution of professions in Europe.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) with partners France Médias Monde and Oštro have entered the production phase of CLIC, a European social media initiative to tackle disinformation. By fusing the rigour of professional journalists with the massive reach of popular content creators, the aim is to widen the audience for fact-checking content.