Sources: Reuters
France withdraws its case at the International Court of Justice accusing Iran of denying consular protection to two French citizens detained at Evin Prison in Tehran for more than three years. 2025-09-25
French film director Benoît Jacquot is charged with the rapes of actresses Julia Roy and Isild Le Besco between 1998 and 2000, and "rape, sexual assault and violence" committed between 2013 and 2018. 2024-07-4
Two French aid workers are killed in a Russian drone strike near Beryslav in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. Four people are also injured in the strike. 2024-02-1
The French Army announces that they have killed Soumana Boura, a leading member of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the previous day. Boura was involved in the killings of six French aid workers and their two Nigerien guides in a mass shooting in August 2020 in Kouré, Niger. 2021-12-21
About 130 French citizens who joined the Islamic State are expected to be returned to France by their Kurdish captors to face trial. 2019-01-29
"Dheepan", a French film directed by Jacques Audiard, wins the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. 2015-05-24
French film and television actor Louis Jourdan ("Gigi") dies at the age of 93. 2015-02-14
Three French aid workers with Triangle Generation Humanitaire kidnapped in Yemen in May are freed. 2011-11-14
Lawyers for French novelist Tristane Banon say that she will file a criminal complaint accusing former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape. 2011-07-4
Three French foreign aid workers disappear in Yemen's Hadramout province. 2011-05-29