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In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, United States, with the San Antonio Spurs taking French player Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick.
2023-06-22

France suspends 3,000 healthcare workers because they have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a day after mandatory vaccination for health-related sector employees was implemented.
2021-09-16

The British Normandy Memorial in Normandy, France, is officially unveiled on the 77th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
2021-06-6

France reports 1,053 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the country's death toll to 7,560 and 89,953 cases. The new figures include previously unreported deaths in retirement homes.
2020-04-4

A gunman shoots and injures six people at a bar in Marseille, France. The gunman is still at large.
2019-11-1

The Senate of France approves a bill to reform the SNCF railway company. The French state writes off €35 billion of SNCF's €47 billion debt, but remains the sole owner of the joint-stock company with two subsidiaries: operator SNCF Mobility and infrastructure manager SNCF Network.
2018-06-14

France's National Assembly votes to adopt a non-binding resolution to lift European Union sanctions against Russia, applied after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans, as well as center-right and far-left groups voted in favor of lifting the sanctions, while the ruling Socialist Party and The Greens voted against the resolution.
2016-04-28

Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, wins the European Union's prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The Sakharov award ceremony will be held in Strasbourg, France on December 16, 2015 while the laureate remains imprisoned.
2015-10-29

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

An estimated 150,000 people rally against gay marriage in Paris, France, with 100 people arrested.
2013-05-26