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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

Environmental protesters throw pumpkin soup at the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre in Paris, France. The painting is protected by bulletproof glass and was not damaged.
2024-01-28

The International Olympic Committee says that athletes from Russia and Belarus will not receive invitations to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, and will only be able to compete as neutral athletes.
2023-07-13

A security guard is killed at the Qatari embassy in Paris, France.
2022-05-23

France requires shoppers to show their "health pass" in order to enter 126 shopping centres that have a size of more than 20000 m2 in Paris and 12 departments that reached a threshold of 200 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people.
2021-08-16

A fire in an apartment block in Paris, France, kills ten and leaves over 30 wounded. The incident is being treated as possible arson. A woman was arrested on suspicion of setting the fire.
2019-02-5

Violent clashes between French police and protesters last well into the night on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over rising fuel taxes.
2018-11-24

Femen co-founder and activist Oksana Shachko is found dead in her Paris apartment in an apparent suicide. France granted her political refugee status in 2013.
2018-07-23

At least one person is killed after a group of armed men took people hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near the Belgian border. The hostages are thought to be a bank director and his family. French police say the incident may be related to a robbery and not to the November 2015 attacks in Paris.
2015-11-24

A Paris court sentences former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to seven years in jail for money laundering in France for the Medellin drug cartel in the 1980s. [http:--www.google.com-hostednews-canadianpress-article-ALeqM5haoVrce5A9OyQ2Vpqct1UJCFRpIQ (Canadian Press via Google News)] [http:--english.aljazeera.net-news-europe-2010-07-201077124229971856.html (Aljazeera)] [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-world-europe-10542179.stm (BBC)] [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-breakingnews-185396-french-court-orders-more-jail-time-for-noriega ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019
2010-07-7