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Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia warned the G7 earlier this year that it would sell off Eurobonds and French bonds if the G7 proceeded with the seizure of US$280 billion in Russian frozen assets to give to Ukraine.
2024-07-10

Japan wins the 2023 World Pastry Cup in Chassieu, Lyon Metropolis, France.
2023-01-21

President Emmanuel Macron announces that the country will began to ease its strict lockdown measures beginning November 28, allowing shops to reopen with strict hygiene measures. If health conditions in the country continue to improve, France will lift its lockdown on December 15, allowing cinemas, theatres, and museums to reopen.
2020-11-24

France's defense ministry reports its first armed drone strike. On Saturday, a Reaper drone strike killed seven in central Mali.
2019-12-23

France withdraws its ambassador to Italy, for the first time since the Second World War, amid an ongoing verbal row and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio’s decision to meet with members of the French yellow vest movement.
2019-02-7

The Vatican is replacing Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., with French-born Archbishop Christophe Pierre, currently the Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico. Viganò, who is 75, the statutory retirement age, in 2015 arranged the unexpected meeting between Pope Francis and controversial Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who refused to follow her state's law on same-sex marriage.
2016-03-17

France’s Constitutional Council strikes down the government’s plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy.
2012-12-29

France and Belgium agree to break up and partially nationalize Dexia, Belgium's largest bank.
2011-10-10

French fishermen off the coast of Malta repel an attempt by Greenpeace to obstruct their operations, sinking several Greenpeace Zodiac boats and injuring a Greenpeace activist.
2010-06-6