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At the International Olympic Committee's meeting in Paris, France, it is announced that the French Alps region has been conditionally approved to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and that Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, will host the 2034 Winter Olympics.
2024-07-24

A schoolgirl in Lyon, France, is reportedly sent home for wearing a traditional Japanese kimono as the nation implements a controversial law banning the display of religious symbols in public schools.
2023-09-6

France registers a record 52,010 new confirmed infections over the past 24 hours, according to a statement from the health ministry, taking the nationwide total to 1,138,507 and becoming the world's fifth highest number of cases after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.
2020-10-25

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

The United States, United Kingdom, and France close their Yemeni embassies and evacuate their staff due to terrorist activities and continued unrest.
2015-02-11

Three astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three month visit.
2012-07-17

Workers enter one of the buildings at Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant for the first time since an explosion in the days following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-05-5

Japan attempts to restore electric power to two crippled reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to combat ongoing problems.
2011-03-18

The United States authorises the first evacuation of Americans from Japan.
2011-03-17

Another fire breaks out at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in northern Honshu, Japan.
2011-03-16