AFP updates guidelines on using Social media
International news agency AFP has published a new guide on how its journalists should use social networks including tighter rules on making accounts secure.
Moscow (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 12:09:45 | Ukrainian strike more than 1,000 km from border kills six, wounds 26: Russian governor
Tehran (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 12:03:27 | Iran Guards warn civilians to stay away from US forces in region
Brussels (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 12:01:12 | EU accuses TikTok of exposing children to risks online
Madrid (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 11:52:53 | Top priority is avoiding 'convergence' of wildfires around Madrid: minister
Geneva (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 11:39:55 | UN urges evacuation of 6,000 sailors stranded in Hormuz strait
Bucharest (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 10:47:12 | Romania shoots down drone in its airspace for first time: president
Madrid (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 10:43:24 | Spain requests four planes from EU to fight wildfires
Kyiv (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 10:38:36 | Blasts in Kyiv after missile warning: AFP journalists
Kyiv (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 10:30:26 | Zelensky says Ukrainian strikes hit warehouses supplying Russian army
Beijing (AFP) | 24/07/2026 - 10:29:22 | China restricts exports to 14 EU entities
International news agency AFP has published a new guide on how its journalists should use social networks including tighter rules on making accounts secure.
Emmanuel Giroud, 46, has been appointed head of the Cairo bureau and will take up the post in August. Hired onto AFP's international desk in 1996, he has worked in Lyon, Ajaccio and Nairobi. Emmanuel also ran the Islamabad bureau for several years and was chief of the Europe desk in Paris prior to this latest appointment.
AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.
AFP will be transmitting photographs from the 100th Tour de France in virtual real time thanks to innovative satellite technology which will allow transmission from motor cycles following the race. AFP is installing auto-pointing satellite terminals which can transmit at rest or on the move. They will allow photographers to send their images at any moment and in virtual real time, and will be particularly effective in stretches of the Tour where the phone network is insufficient to carry the agency’s production.
AFP is sending a 40 strong team to the Confederations Cup, which runs from June 15 to 30 in Brazil and is seen as a rehearsal for next year’s World Cup.
AFP and Relaxnews, which already offer their AFP-Relaxnews service in English and in French, are launching the service in Brazil on June 26.
AFP photographers scooped two gold medals, one silver and two bronze as the agency’s photographers dominated the annual Sportsfolio photo festival in Narbonne, France.
The international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has awarded the 2013 Kate Webb Prize for frontline journalism to Indonesian investigative reporter Stefanus Teguh Edi Pramono for his searing reportages on the bloody civil war in Syria and his eye-opening investigation into the murky underworld of the Jakarta drug trade.
AFP’s cutting edge photo coverage of the London Olympics is the focus of its exhibition at the Sportfolio Festival in the French Mediterranean city of Narbonne which runs from June 1 to 18.
AFP will broadcast live video of France’s first same-sex wedding, which will be held in the southern city of Montpellier today, Wednesday May 29. Two AFP cameras – one inside and one outside the city hall – will cover the wedding, which has attracted huge international interest.