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France's New Popular Front (NFP) party suspends future talks with President Emmanuel Macron to break a political deadlock after Macron refused to implement a leftist-led coalition government despite the NFP receiving the second-most votes in the legislative election, and also calls for nationwide protests against Macron's "parody of democracy".
2024-08-27

One person is killed and another is hospitalized after a boat carrying more than 60 migrants experienced difficulties as it attempted to cross the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom.
2023-12-15

French President Emmanuel Macron invokes a Constitutional amendment allowing him to circumvent the National Assembly in order to pass a controversial reform bill raising the retirement age in the country from 62 to 64, without the bill going to a vote.
2023-03-16

Archaeologists announce the discovery of a human tooth in the "Grotte Mandrin" near Malataverne, France, dating to 54,000 YBP, around 10,000 years before the currently accepted date for the arrival of "Homo sapiens" in Europe.
2022-02-10

France records its highest number of new daily infections since the end of the lockdown in early May, with an additional 6,111 cases reported over the past 24 hours, making it the second highest ever, after 7,578 new cases set on March 30.
2020-08-27

Iraq sentences three French militants to death for their involvement in ISIS.
2019-05-26

Diplomats from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg meet in Berlin to discuss the consequences of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union.
2016-06-25

France is deploying more than 10,000 personnel to provide security for the two-week UN Climate Change Conference that opens in Le Bourget in Paris on Monday, November 30, 2015. Around 150 heads of state or government are expected to attend COP21's opening day.
2015-11-26

A French journalist is killed, along with eight others, by a mortar in the Syrian city of Homs.
2012-01-11

Bulgarian Romani protest outside the French embassy in Sofia about expulsions of Romani from France.
2010-09-18