Sources: Euro News
France's left-wing political parties establish an electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, ahead of the French parliamentary elections. 2024-06-11
A teacher is killed and another teacher and a security guard are seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a high school in Arras, Hauts-de-France, France. The Chechen attacker is arrested by police. 2023-10-13
Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, the opposition presidential candidate, dies from COVID-19 on a plane en route to France for treatment, a day after the election. 2021-03-22
France extends its curfew to eight departments, including Bouches-du-Rhône, which includes Marseille, where a 6:00 p.m. curfew has been imposed after 21 people tested positive for the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in the United Kingdom. 2021-01-9
The Japanese bulk carrier "Wakashio", which stranded on a reef in Mauritius last month, breaks in half. Approximately 1,000 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean. Most of the oil had been pumped out before the ship broke in half in the afternoon. Around 166 tonnes of oil remained after the break, and authorities are working to remove it. Scientists call it the biggest environmental disaster ever in Mauritius. France says it will help with the cleanup. Japan's ministry of environment announced that it will send officials and other specialists to look at the damage. 2020-08-15
A Polish national who was wounded during a terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France, dies of his injuries, raising the death toll to five. 2018-12-16
Authorities in France and French Polynesia meet to discuss rescue plans for MV "Thorco Lineage", a freighter hauling zinc that is grounded with eighteen people on board on a coral reef near Raroia, Tuamotus. 2018-06-26
A 200-year-old letter dated 20 October 1812 in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Moscow Kremlin fetches €187,500 (£151,000, $233,800) at a French auction in Fontainebleau. 2012-12-2
The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each. 2012-01-13
French riot police take over the Grandpuits Total S.A. oil refinery which had been blockaded by strikers for more than ten days. 2010-10-22