Sources: Euro News
The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security riot police unit to Martinique, following resistance from cost of living and social inequality protesters against French-issued bans on demonstrations. 2024-09-23
Nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron's appointment of Michel Barnier as the new prime minister break out in 130 cities and towns across France, with left-wing coalition New Popular Front claiming that Macron stole the election. 2024-09-7
A man is shot dead by police after trying to set a synagogue on fire in Rouen, France. 2024-05-17
Riots occur in several French towns following the killing of a teenager by a police officer in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France. At least 31 people are arrested, 25 police officers are injured, and 40 vehicles are destroyed in arson attacks. 2023-06-28
Kosovo reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people who travelled from the United States, a person who travelled from France, two people who travelled from the United Kingdom, and four people with no international travel history. 2021-12-26
Thirty-three people are injured, four critically, when a FlixBus overturns at an exit near Amiens, France. 2019-11-3
A Filipino container ship runs aground on a coral reef near Raroia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia. France sends an aircraft to survey the scene in response to a request for help by Raroia's mayor. 2018-06-25
Three French crewman are kidnapped off the coast of Nigeria. 2010-09-22
Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. 2010-07-12
A French police officer dies in a shootout with Basque nationalist group ETA in Paris, the first French officer to do so. 2010-03-17