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France's left-wing political parties establish an electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, ahead of the French parliamentary elections.
2024-06-11

A teacher is killed and another teacher and a security guard are seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a high school in Arras, Hauts-de-France, France. The Chechen attacker is arrested by police.
2023-10-13

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

France extends its curfew to eight departments, including Bouches-du-Rhône, which includes Marseille, where a 6:00 p.m. curfew has been imposed after 21 people tested positive for the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in the United Kingdom.
2021-01-9

A 200-year-old letter dated 20 October 1812 in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Moscow Kremlin fetches €187,500 (£151,000, $233,800) at a French auction in Fontainebleau.
2012-12-2

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz returns to Mauritania after being in France for five weeks recovering after being shot by a soldier on 13 October.
2012-11-25

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each.
2012-01-13

2011 Mauritanian protests: Hundreds of people demonstrating during a "day of rage" against the regime of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz are tear gassed by police, while others are arrested and opposition MPs deterred from joining the protests.
2011-04-26

French riot police take over the Grandpuits Total S.A. oil refinery which had been blockaded by strikers for more than ten days.
2010-10-22