Sources: Euro News
South Africa says it is no longer invited to the upcoming G7 summit in Haute-Savoie, France, after an initial invitation, with differing statements from its officials on the reasons for the decision. 2026-03-26
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom issue a joint statement condemning the Iranian attacks on commercial vessels and expressing their "readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait". 2026-03-19
Iran's IRIB broadcasts purported confessions from two French citizens accused of espionage. This broadcast comes in the context of the Mahsa Amini protests which began in September as well as the claim by the Iranian government that the protests are an attempt by France and other countries such as the United States and Israel to overthrow the current Iranian Islamic government. 2022-10-6
The United Nations Security Council has resoundingly rejected a United States bid to extend a global arms embargo on Iran. In a Security Council vote, United States only got support from the Dominican Republic for its resolution to indefinitely extend the arms embargo on Iran, leaving it far short of the minimum nine "yes" votes required for adoption. Eleven members on the 15-member body, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, abstained while Russia and China opposed extending the ban but did not need to use their vetoes. 2020-08-14
French Health Minister Olivier Véran confirms the first death of a doctor treating COVID-19 patients. 2020-03-22
A gunman shoots and injures six people at a bar in Marseille, France. The gunman is still at large. 2019-11-1
Iraq sentences three French militants to death for their involvement in ISIS. 2019-05-26
In Cambo-les-Bains, France, ETA performs its final act of dissolution in the presence of politicians such as Gerry Adams, Jonathan Powell, Brian Currin and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. 2018-05-4
Stéphane Hessel, influential French diplomat, writer, thinker and inspiration for multiple political movements, dies at age 95. 2013-02-27
African troops are to be deployed in Mali to fight alongside French and Malian soldiers within a week. 2013-01-15