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The French National Assembly approves President François Hollande's request to extend the current state of emergency for three months. The Senate must still approve the measure.
2015-11-19

The French Senate passes a bill that makes it illegal for citizens to deny the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.
2012-01-23

2010 strikes in France: Further, larger strikes are planned against government attempts to increase the age of retirement for the country's workers.
2010-10-24

French trade unions plan two further days of protest on October 28 and November 6.
2010-10-22

France faces another day of strikes with a quarter of petrol stations not having any fuel.
2010-10-21

France braces itself for another day of strikes against proposed cuts to pensions that the Senate will consider later this week.
2010-10-20

French strikes intensify ahead of Wednesday's Senate vote on pension reform, with a thousand petrol stations running out of fuel, rail strikes intensifying and truck drivers performing go-slows on highways.
2010-10-18

2010 strikes in France: Thousands of students join millions more people on the streets of France for a fifth day of protests against government pension reform plans; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is running out of fuel amid calls by the government for people "not to panic".
2010-10-16

2010 strikes in France: French trade unions launch a new round of strikes over plans by the President Nicolas Sarkozy to lift the pension age to 62, with transport services and schools to be badly affected.
2010-09-23

France passes a resolution banning full face veils after a 246-1 vote in the Senate. The law must still be reviewed by the Constitutional Council before coming into effect.
2010-09-14