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Former National Liberation Front of Corsica leader Alain Orsoni is assassinated by a gunman at his mother's funeral in Vero, Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, France.
2026-01-12

Arson attacks on TGV infrastructure disrupt rail services in France.
2024-07-26

Wildfires break out in southwestern France and Spain amidst a heat wave in Europe.
2022-07-16

France's "Autorité de la concurrence" fines Google a record €500M ($593M) for breaching an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate "in good faith" licensing deals with publishers and news agencies for any re-use of copyrighted content. The fine amounts to about 1.1% of the company's yearly profits.
2021-07-13

Nationwide protests organised by the French Confédération Générale du Travail union attract over 18,000 people in Paris, including many supporters of the Yellow vest movement.
2019-02-5

The pro-autonomy coalition party Pè a Corsica obtains 45% of the votes in the first round of the Corsican Assembly elections preceding the replacement of the departments of Haute Corse and Corse-du-Sud and the region of Corsica, France, with a single territorial collectivity. Two "miscellaneous right" parties and La République En Marche! also achieve the 7% election threshold to reach the second round.
2017-12-3

Firefighters battle wildfires across southern France, including one in Corsica.
2017-07-25

With most of the votes counted, the opposition conservatives of former president Nicolas Sarkozy's party win in six of the country’s 13 regions and lead in the Paris region. The ruling Socialists of President François Hollande's party capture five regions. The winner in Corsica is not affiliated with a major party. France's far-right National Front (FN) fails to win a single region but did record its best showing in its history. Voter turnout was 58 percent. Definitive results are expected Monday.
2015-12-13

A gunman kills three people with a Kalashnikov rifle in a shooting attack in Istres, France.
2013-04-25

Five children die in a house fire in the town of Saint-Quentin in northern France.
2013-03-31