Sources: Euro News
The 2024 Summer Olympics conclude with the closing ceremony taking place at the Stade de France in Paris, France. 2024-08-11
Twenty-one people are injured in a bus crash in Corps, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. 2023-03-4
Volkswagen submits an offer of €2.5 billion for French car rental firm Europcar. The deal, which would give Volkswagen 66% of Europcar's shares, has been accepted by the board but still needs to be accepted by regulators in France. Volkswagen previously owned Europcar and sold it to French investment firm Eurazeo for €3.3 billion in 2006. 2021-09-20
France and Germany end talks with the United States to reform the World Health Organization, after the former two's respective health ministries expressed opposition to the attempt from the US at leading the talks, despite the US having decided to leave the organization. 2020-08-7
Two gunmen open fire near a mosque in Avignon, France, injuring eight people. Two of the victims were hospitalised. 2017-07-2
Bruno Le Roux resigns as France's Minister of the Interior amid a jobs scandal involving two of his daughters. Using public funds, Bruno had hired his 15 and 16-year-old daughters as parliamentary assistants while he was serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly. 2017-03-21
At least four skiers are killed in an avalanche at the Tignes resort in France. 2017-02-13
French prosecutors state that they believe "with certainty" that a piece of debris that had washed ashore on Reunion Island came from the missing plane. 2015-09-3
Police in Grenoble, France arrest four people for attempted murder whom they claim protested the fatal shooting of a man by police. 2010-07-18
The Italian Embassy in Iran is attacked by protesters unhappy with Italy's decision to scale back economic dealings and push for tighter sanctions and protests are also held outside French and Dutch embassies. 2010-02-9