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15/04/2016 - 00:21

AFP board approves 2015 accounts at its meeting on 12 April 2016
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15/04/2016 - 00:16

Fabrice Lacroix appointed AFP deputy managing director

Fabrice Lacroix, 43, currently deputy managing director for management and means at France Télévisions, appointed deputy managing director at AFP from 18 April 2016.
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15/04/2016 - 00:10

AFP announces a series of appointments
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14/04/2016 - 23:58

AFP launches AFPTV Sports, a new video offer dedicated to sports news

Agence France-Presse will offer video coverage of sports news and major sporting events from April 4.
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14/04/2016 - 23:51

AFP photojournalists awarded six prizes in the 2016 Pictures of the Year contest
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14/04/2016 - 23:42

AFP wins four World Press Photo prizes

Four AFP photojournalists have won prizes in the 2016 World Press Photo awards.
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20/02/2016 - 14:47

AFP’s 2016 budget : sport and video are the priorities

AT THE AFP BOARD MEETING ON 2 FEBRUARY 2016, CHAIRMAN EMMANUEL HOOG PRESENTED THE WAYS AND MEANS THAT WILL ALLOW THE AGENCY TO ENSURE THE NECESSARY INNOVATIONS IN 2016 TO DEVELOP THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF VIDEO AND SPORT (WHICH IS DOMINATED IN 2016 BY THE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES) AND THE COVERAGE OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
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20/02/2016 - 14:44

Burundi : AFP demands the release of two detained journalists

AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog on Friday demanded in a letter addressed to President Pierre Nkurunziza the release of journalists Jean-Philippe Rémy and Phil Moore who were arrested Thursday in Burundi.
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20/02/2016 - 13:40

Getty Images and AFP renew leading content partnership

Longstanding partnership continues to provide news rooms around the world with unrivalled coverage of news, sport and entertainment imagery and video.
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20/02/2016 - 13:33

AFP to open a bureau in North Korea

Under an agreement signed in Paris on Tuesday January 19 with KCNA (the Korean Central News Agency), Agence France-Presse will open a permanent bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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