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French maritime minister Annick Girardin says that France is prepared to impose "retaliation measures" against the United Kingdom over its new guidelines on requiring French fishing vessels to obtain permits to sail by the Channel Islands.
2021-05-4

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

A Greek Orthodox priest is critically wounded after being shot twice while closing his church in Lyon, France. The attacker fled the scene. The victim, a Greek national, is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
2020-10-31

French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn announces she will run for the Parisian mayoral position on the La République En Marche! ticket, after the party's original candidate Benjamin Griveaux withdrew yesterday due to a sexting scandal.
2020-02-16

During a session of the United Nations Security Council, the United States repeat its "unapologetic" support for the ongoing Iranian protests. Russia denounces the "veiled [U.S.] attempt to use the current moment to continue to undermine" the JCPOA. France calls to "be wary of any attempt to exploit this crisis for personal ends".
2018-01-5

A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people. Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student.
2017-03-16

Voters in France begin voting in the first round of regional elections just three weeks after the deadly Islamic State militant attacks in Paris. Exit polls show strong gains for the far-right National Front which is leading in six regions and reshape the political landscape after decades of domination by the centre-left and the centre-right coalitions. Midday voter participation is 16.27 percent, marginally higher than five years ago. There are 44.6 million eligible voters.
2015-12-6

France launches a series of airstrikes on Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump.
2015-11-15

France rejects criticism from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination over its Romani removal strategy.
2010-08-27

At least 25 people die during flooding in the Var department of Côte d'Azur, Southern France.
2010-06-16