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About 130 French citizens who joined the Islamic State are expected to be returned to France by their Kurdish captors to face trial.
2019-01-29

Authorities search for Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the attacks. Raids are reported to have taken place in Grenoble, Toulouse, Jeumont and the Paris suburb of Bobigny. This contradicts previously published official information that all the perpetrators of the attacks were dead.
2015-11-16

A French air traffic controllers strike causes the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout Europe.
2015-04-8

A French priest is kidnapped in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria.
2013-11-14

Four French hostages held in Niger by an Al-Qaeda offshoot since 2010 are released.
2013-10-29

A car bomb detonates outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, resulting in injury to two guards and extensive damage to the embassy.
2013-04-23

Elizabeth Price is awarded the 2012 Turner Prize for her 2012 twenty-minute video installation "The Woolworths Choir of 1979".
2012-12-3

French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen announces that it will cut 8000 jobs from its domestic operations as a result of a downturn in Europe.
2012-07-12

A French appeals court upholds a 2009 conviction of the Church of Scientology on fraud charges.
2012-02-2

Gunfire at a combat post in Afghanistan killed a French soldier and wounded an Afghan translator.
2010-06-19