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The center-right Macron-appointed Barnier government expresses a willingness to work with the far-right National Rally's proposals to strengthen French immigration and crime laws following the murder of a 19-year-old woman in Paris last week. The suspect, who was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland, is a Moroccan convicted rapist who was released from prison this month and was meant to be deported.
2024-09-25

The Department of Health and Social Care confirms the UK's death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 20,000. It joins the United States, Italy, Spain and France as the fifth nation to reach this total.
2020-04-25

France conducts airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq from the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle".
2016-09-30

Fourteen Caribbean nations file a lawsuit against the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands for damages caused during the Atlantic slave trade.
2014-03-11

The United Kingdom and France sign a deal to improve cooperation on nuclear energy.
2012-02-17

Cuba refuses to grant a visa to dissident Guillermo Fariñas so that he could receive the Sakharov Prize in France.
2010-12-15

A French fishing boat rescues US teenage sailor Abby Sunderland in the Southern Ocean.
2010-06-12

French prosecutors seek a suspended prison sentence in the manslaughter trial of the former head of the Concorde programme over Air France Flight 4590 which crashed near Paris in 2000, killing 113 people.
2010-05-21

Dubai police name five new suspects in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January, involving passports from Australia, Britain and France. An Israeli citizen, Zev Barkan, wanted by New Zealand since 2004 for passport fraud, may have used a New Zealand passport.
2010-05-7

Continental Airlines and five men go on trial for their alleged role in the crash of Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde flight, that killed 113 people in 2000.
2010-02-2