AFP CONFIRMS PIONEERING ROLE IN HD
AFP EXTENDS HD VIDEO PRODUCTION - ALREADY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN - TO SPANISH
Mexico City (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 20:46:06 | Mayor shot dead in southern Mexico: prosecutors
Washington (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 19:13:21 | Trump says US will get Iran's enriched uranium when 'all is calm'
Washington (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 18:57:15 | Trump says Iran peace deal to be signed Sunday, opening Hormuz
Washington (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 18:05:16 | Washington arts center says Trump's name removed from facade
Washington (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 16:42:00 | Trump to participate in G7 working session with Zelensky: official
Tehran (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 15:19:42 | Iran says deal with US won't be signed Sunday: state media
Islamabad (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 13:18:35 | Mediator Pakistan says US-Iran peace deal likely finalised within 24 hours
Tehran (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 12:55:47 | Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei to be buried July 9: state TV
Beirut (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 09:47:26 | Lebanon reports Israeli strikes in south after Israeli warning
Jerusalem (AFP) | 13/06/2026 - 09:18:43 | Israeli military warns of imminent strikes on south Lebanon
AFP EXTENDS HD VIDEO PRODUCTION - ALREADY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN - TO SPANISH
AFP is launching its iPad application in English at the annual conference of the Online News Association; a new offering, free of charge, providing access to a selection of fast, accurate news from around the world.
The jury praised a series of pictures shot by 35-year-old Carl for AFP. They included a series of pictures of the student riots in London, another shows a demonstrator calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and another is of a policeman caught in the act of moving a cat away from the doorstep of 10 Downing Street with his boot.
AFP’s global news coverage in text, photos, and graphics will continue to be made available to Japanese clients via JIJI Press, under an agreement signed in Paris by AFP Chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog and JIJI President Masahiro Nakato last wednesday.
“We must secure public funding for the Agency”
AFP will supply the Chinese news agency Xinhua with photos for its multimedia telco products in the fast growing Chinese mobile market, under an agreement signed by the two agencies.
Agence France-Presse and Indonesia's national news agency Antara signed an agreement Tuesday to launch multimedia services in the Indonesian language.
Christophe Vogt, 45, has been appointed deputy chief news editor. He joined AFP in 1995 as correspondent in Frankfurt where he covered the Bundesbank. As a reporter in Paris over the next decade, he covered economics, including notably the birth of the euro currency.
Over his five years at AFP, Erik Monjalous implemented a policy of diversifying and adapting sales for new platforms and new media.
The Arab revolutions from Tunisia to Yemen have underscored the importance of the social networks for newsrooms the world over. Therefore in the context of current events in Syria, AFP is painstakingly collecting and verifying data from the social networks on a daily basis.