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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

Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states.
2024-06-3

A knife attack outside the former headquarters of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France, leaves two people wounded. The building is now used by a television production company, and the two wounded victims are workers of the company. The suspected perpetrator and six other people are taken into custody. The interior minister Gérald Darmanin says that the stabbing is an Islamic extremist terror attack.
2020-09-25

Interpol reports that in six weeks it has detected more than a dozen people wanted for terrorism offences crossing the Mediterranean Sea using tourist routes. The joint operation involved Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia.
2019-09-19

A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic.
2019-05-22

French President François Hollande promises to investigate claims that French Army soldiers were involved in sexual child abuse in the Central African Republic.
2015-05-1

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

France announces it will increase the number of its soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic as sectarian violence worsens.
2014-02-14

France announces that it plans to intervene in the conflict in the Central African Republic.
2013-11-26

Goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilalé, shot in the Togo national football team attack prior to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, is to return to France after emergency surgery in Johannesburg.
2010-03-1