Speech by Mr. George Penintaex, Secretary General of the Alliance of MediterraneanNews Agencies (AMAN) at the 3rd Metting of Environmental Journalists fromNews Agenccies in the Mediterranean

Dear friends and colleagues,
I am very glad to be back in Barcelona and the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), this time for the 3rd Meeting of Environmental Journalists from News Agencies in the Mediterranean.

(The complete speach)

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AFP appointing new managing director
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AFP appointing new deputy global news director
Marc Braibant has been appointed AFP deputy global news director. (Read more)

AFP photographer killed in Kabul
AFP Chief Photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, was killed in Kabul on April 30 (Read more)

AFP expanding fact checking with Facebook
AFP announced that the agency is extending Facebook fact-checking collaboration to three more countries.
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ANSA appointing new CEO
Stefano De Alessandri has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of ANSA. ars.
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ATA signs cooperation agreement with Greek news agency ANA
The exchange of photos and news was on the focus of the cooperation agreement (Read more)

ATA signs cooperation agreement with Bulgarian news agency BTA.
The Albanian Telegraphic Agency, ATA, and Bulgarian News Agency, BTA, (Read more)

TANJUG News Agency Director visits ATA for first time
The further increase of cooperation between the Albanian Telegraphic Agency  (Read more)

ATA participates in EANA Spring Conference in Bucharest
ATA was represented in the EANA Spring Conference hosted by AGERPRES (Read more)

CNA - New Board Chairman
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EFE  - Journalist Fernando Garea named as Spanish news agency EFE's new president
Madrid, Jul 27, (EFE).- Renowned Spanish journalist Fernando Garea on Friday (Read more)

SANA launches monthly awards for excellence for editors and photographers
SANA launched the monthly internal award of Excellent Journalist and Photographer (Read more)

SANA holds training courses for university students
In cooperation with Damascus University and the Faculty of Media, (Read more)

SANA broadcasts video reports
SANA began broadcasting video reports in the SANA Video page on its website (https://www.sana.sy/?cat=726). (Read more)

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Best Photo Winner 2018 goes to LUSA

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Photo taken by Jose Sena Goulao
A young girl, one of 48 migrants rescued, is lifted on board the Portuguese Navy  Viana do Castelo Oceanic Patrol Ship, off the coast of Pozzallo, Sicily, Italy, 27 October 2017. Reports state that 48 migrants were rescued on 27 October 2017 by the Portuguese Navy in the Mediterranean landed in Pozzallo on 28 October 2017 and were handed over to the Italian authorities 19 hours after being picked up from a vessel at risk of fire. 

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Best Photo Winner 2017 goes to ANA-MPA

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Photo taken by Yiannis Kolesidis
Refugees and migrants struggle during a food distribution at a refugee camp, at the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), near Idomeni, northern Greece, 10 March 2016. After Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia have sealed their borders to the migration flow, tens of thousands of people are left stranded in Greece, where most migrants enter the European Union to continue on to countries in Europe.

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2016 - Best Photo Winner goes to  AA

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Photo taken by Õzge Elif Kızıl
Refugees arrive in Greece's Lesbos Island
Volunteers help a refugee man and baby as refugees hoping to cross into Europe, arrive on the shore of Lesbos Island, Greece after crossing the Aegean sea from

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