Sources: Euro News
His appointment coincides with country-wide protests and strikes against austerity measures previously announced by Bayrou, with protestors calling to "block everything". Eighty thousand police officers and gendarmes are deployed nationwide, with at least 200 people arrested as of 10 a.m. local time. 2025-09-10
Thirteen people are injured, including one critically, when a 93-year-old man falls ill and drives into a restaurant terrace in Narbonne, Occitanie, France. 2025-05-31
A French citizen is detained in Moscow, Russia, under suspicion of collecting military information. 2024-06-6
A priest is murdered at a church in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France, by the same person who committed the arson at the Nantes Cathedral in July 2020. He is arrested after confessing to the killing. 2021-08-9
The French government issues new rules that would allow all vaccinated travellers from the European Union and seven other "green" countries to enter the country without showing a negative testing result beginning on June 9. 2021-06-4
France records its highest number of new daily infections since the end of the lockdown in early May, with an additional 6,111 cases reported over the past 24 hours, making it the second highest ever, after 7,578 new cases set on March 30. 2020-08-27
Amid a continental heat wave, France records its highest ever temperature of 45.9 C in Gallargues-le-Montueux. 2019-06-28
The body of 26-year-old French photojournalist Camille Lepage was found in the Bouar region. The French presidency released a statement saying she was "murdered" and announced that a team of investigators will be dispatched to the scene. 2014-05-13
Air traffic controllers in France go on strike in protest at a plan to unify European airspace. 2010-07-21
French prosecutors launch an investigation into alleged illegal campaign funding for French President Nicolas Sarkozy. 2010-07-7