Sources: BBC News
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia has received a shipment of Fath 360 tactical ballistic missiles from Iran, and expects their deployment "within weeks". Iran denies the claim, calling it "psychological warfare". In response, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany announce new sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles. 2024-09-10
A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic. 2019-05-22
Voters in France return to the polls after last month's presidential election for the first round of a legislative election, to begin choosing the 577 members of France's lower house. Opinion polls and exit polls predict that En Marche!, formed by newly elected President Emmanuel Macron, will pick up a majority of seats. 2017-06-11
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
French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million-year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. 2011-08-2
France accuses Iran of shunning nuclear dialogue, while the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton branded Iran the number one challenge today for world security. 2010-04-17