Photo by AFP’s Joseph Eid chosen by the BBC as one of the "Five moments that captured 2014"
As we approach the end of 2014, BBC Radio 4's The World at One is looking back at the biggest events of the year through the eyes of photographers.
Damascus (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 10:57:43 | Syria says 18 wounded including four policemen in Damascus blasts
Damascus (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 10:21:53 | France says Macron safe, continuing visit after Damascus blast
Damascus (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 10:11:44 | Two blasts near Damascus hotel where French president spent night: security source to AFP
Damascus (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 09:47:20 | Explosion heard in Damascus during French president's visit: AFP
Beijing (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 09:33:19 | Landslide in northwest China kills 5, 12 missing: state media
Quetta (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 08:47:11 | Gunmen kill 9 police officers near dam project in southwest Pakistan: officials
Beijing (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 07:07:21 | China's coast guard says drove out Japanese vessel near disputed island
Beijing (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 07:03:54 | Tolls from China storms, rain rise to 15 dead, 9 missing: state media
Beijing (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 06:09:07 | China's Xi calls for 'all out' rescue operations after floods
Tokyo (AFP) | 07/07/2026 - 05:52:14 | Japan coast guard says expelled Chinese ships from waters near disputed islands
As we approach the end of 2014, BBC Radio 4's The World at One is looking back at the biggest events of the year through the eyes of photographers.
The Guardian picture desk has chosen Turkish photographer Bulent Kilic, of AFP, as the hotly contested agency photographer of the year. Here’s a look back over 2014 through his lens, showing unrest in Ukraine, the refugee crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border and the harrowing MH17 air crash.
BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service interviewed, on thwo separate occasions, Julian Rademeyer, the editor of the Foundation's Africa Check website, and Edem Srem, the winner of the Foundation's African Fact-Checking Awards, for their programme 'More or Less'.
Agence France-Presse is putting in a place an exceptional coverage plan for the US presidential election - blogs, social network posts, live reports and multimedia packages will provide both breaking news coverage and behind-the-scenes reports.
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jean-Pierre Vignolle, at the age of 77.
According to a study led by Forbes and Statista last November, AFP gets the 7th place among the 49 French ranked companies, and the 65th place among the 400 worldwide companies overall. AFP is also the first media that appears in the ranking.
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.
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.
As part of its series of exclusive multimedia special reports, AFP is broadcasting a special report on Antarctica to mark the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, as well as the 60 year anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty signed on December 1st 1959 in Washington.