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France summons the Israeli ambassador to France over recent attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, calling the attacks a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself.
2024-10-11

France's New Popular Front (NFP) party suspends future talks with President Emmanuel Macron to break a political deadlock after Macron refused to implement a leftist-led coalition government despite the NFP receiving the second-most votes in the legislative election, and also calls for nationwide protests against Macron's "parody of democracy".
2024-08-27

Palestinian doctor and rector at the University of Glasgow Ghassan Abu-Sittah is denied entry into France after landing at Charles de Gaulle airport on his way to speak at the French Senate. Last month, he was denied entry into Germany.
2024-05-4

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 British Normandy Memorial in Normandy, France, is officially unveiled on the 77th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
2021-06-6

Algeria reports their first two cases of the Lineage B.1.1.7 variant in a healthcare worker from Algiers and a person who traveled to France.
2021-02-25

France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issue a joint "note verbale" to the United Nations rejecting China's claims to the South China Sea, and supporting the ruling in "Philippines v. China" that said the historic rights per the nine-dash line ran counter to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However the statement says that on "territorial sovereignty" they "take no position".
2020-09-17

In a televised address, Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio confirms the country's first case of COVID-19, a 37-year-old man who had recently travelled back from France.
2020-03-31

At least one person is killed after a group of armed men took people hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near the Belgian border. The hostages are thought to be a bank director and his family. French police say the incident may be related to a robbery and not to the November 2015 attacks in Paris.
2015-11-24

At least 43 people die after a bus collides with a truck near the French town of Puisseguin.
2015-10-23