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France and Belgium announce they are strengthening their cooperation in land defence.
2024-06-17

French prosecutors announce that actor Gérard Depardieu will be tried for the alleged sexual assault of two women in 2021.
2024-04-30

Archaeologists announce the discovery of a human tooth in the "Grotte Mandrin" near Malataverne, France, dating to 54,000 YBP, around 10,000 years before the currently accepted date for the arrival of "Homo sapiens" in Europe.
2022-02-10

The French National Assembly votes 135 to 125 to approve the extension of the COVID-19 Health Pass until at least July 31, 2022. The bill will be debated at the French Senate on October 28 in preparation for adopting the bill on November 15.
2021-10-21

The leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany and France agree on their support for the Iran nuclear deal as the best way to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
2018-04-29

Voters in France return to the polls after last month's presidential election for the first round of a legislative election, to begin choosing the 577 members of France's lower house. Opinion polls and exit polls predict that En Marche!, formed by newly elected President Emmanuel Macron, will pick up a majority of seats.
2017-06-11

A man who was yelling "This is for Syria" while attacking a police officer with a hammer near Notre-Dame de Paris, France is shot and wounded by another officer. Prosecutors open a terrorism probe.
2017-06-6

Germany wants France to shut down the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant near its border as soon as possible following media reports the April 9, 2014, incident was more serious than reported.
2016-03-4

French-led troops in Mali take control of Gao International Airport in the northern town and Islamist stronghold of Gao.
2013-01-26

Iranian human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is sentenced to 11 years in prison and banned from practicing law or traveling for 20 years; France condemns the punishment as "deeply shocking" and called for the release of Sotoudeh and another activist, Shiva Nazar-Ahari, who was sentenced to four years in prison and 74 lashes.
2011-01-10