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French police report multiple sabotage acts targeting telecommunications operators in parts of the country, affecting 11,000 clients, with the incidents being treated as vandalism.
2024-07-29

President Emmanuel Macron announces the extension of the "light lockdown" to the rest of the country, which includes a school closure from April 12 to April 26, a one-month domestic travel ban, and closure of non-essential businesses beginning April 3 in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-03-31

Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, the opposition presidential candidate, dies from COVID-19 on a plane en route to France for treatment, a day after the election.
2021-03-22

Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam dies of a heart attack in Paris, France.
2020-03-31

Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial in France on pimping charges.
2015-02-2

Former Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel loses his appeal against a five-year prison sentence for forgery and breach of trust, handed down in 2010.
2012-10-24

Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.
2011-12-9

French authorities seek to make contact with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb over the kidnapping of five French nationals and two others in Niger, now believed to have been taken to northern Mali.
2010-09-23

The United Nations condemns France's crackdown on 40 gypsy camps.
2010-08-12

The trial of alleged "rogue trader" Jérôme Kerviel of Société Générale begins in Paris.
2010-06-8