WAN-Ifra 2016: Around the world in news images
A look back at the last 12 months of news, for the opening of the WAN-IFRA Congress (June 12-14 – Cartagena, Colombia).
Damascus (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 10:53:35 | Syria court sentences Assad-era security official Atif Najib to death
London (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 10:42:40 | Brent North Sea oil tops $90 as Iran-US deal hopes fade
Damascus (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 10:34:45 | Syria court sentences in absentia ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad to death
Zurich (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 10:17:57 | Natural disasters caused $100 bn in economic losses in first half of 2026: Swiss Re
Kyiv (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 09:27:41 | Zelensky says Russia fired N. Korean missiles in attack that killed six
Johannesburg (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 09:02:56 | 14 clandestine miners killed in disused S.Africa mine
Addis Ababa (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 08:28:58 | Rebel authorities in Ethiopia's Tigray state denounce army's drone strikes
Washington (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 01:21:48 | US announces $15.5 mn in aid for quake-hit Colombia
Kyiv (AFP) | 11/08/2026 - 01:19:14 | Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia kills 5, wounds 20: authorities
Kyiv (AFP) | 10/08/2026 - 23:53:03 | Multiple blasts heard in Kyiv after missile alert: AFP
A look back at the last 12 months of news, for the opening of the WAN-IFRA Congress (June 12-14 – Cartagena, Colombia).
Winner of "News Agency of the Year" in 2020, Agence France-Presse has once again been shortlisted in two categories at the AIB Media Awards 2021.
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Jean Marin is appointed CEO. After the vote of the Agence France-Presse Statute in January 1957, he is re-elected every three years and
remained president and CEO until 1975.
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Agence France-Presse's chief executive announced plans on Thursday to cut 125 jobs over five years, saying the measure was necessary in order to stabilise the agency's finances.
The 26th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy awards for war correspondents is being held from 7 to 13 october 2019. The work of AFP journalists in Venezuela, Afghanistan and Gaza will be presented.