Agence France-Presse (AFP)

French cooperative news agency. Based in Paris, it has roots in the Bureau Havas, created in 1832, which in 1835 became the Agence Havas, the world's first true news agency. The Agence Havas was active until the German occupation of France in 1940, when many of its personnel went underground. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, underground journalists emerged to form AFP. The French government assigned the assets of Agence Havas to AFP, which quickly became one of the world's leading wire news services. AFP operates bureaus in Africa, Asia-Pacific countries, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.

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(1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol.

(2) (Advanced Function Presentation) A page description language from IBM introduced in 1984 initially as Advanced Function Printing. It was first developed for mainframes and then brought down to minis and workstations. AFP is implemented on the various platforms by Print Services Facility (PSF) software, which generates the native IBM printer language, IPDS, and depending on the version, PostScript and LaserJet PCL as well. IBM calls AFP a "printer architecture" rather than a page description language.

1.	(protocol)	AFP - Appletalk Filing Protocol.
2.	(printer, language)	AFP - Advanced Function Presentation.

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Elections will be held on the 26th of January," Dayananda Dissanayake, the commissioner of elections, told AFP by telephone.

Sri Lanka to hold presidential poll in January by AFP / AFP Asian Edition

There were a total of 291 people on board the ferry," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, told AFP.

Hundreds rescued, 29 die as Indonesia ferry sinks by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Canadian air force paratroopers on Monday rescued a teenager adrift overnight on an Arctic ice floe and threatened by polar bears, an official told AFP.

Canadian teen survives Arctic ice floe, polar bears by AFP / AFP American Edition