Sources: BBC News
French authorities issue a warning as temperatures reach as high as 40 °C amid ongoing wildfires. 2022-07-11
Voters in France go to the polls to elect the first round of the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly. 2022-06-12
A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic. 2019-05-22
A French court does not order the custody of Suleyman Kerimov but sets a €40 million bail and tighter controls. Kerimov was arrested on November 21 in a money laundering and tax fraud case. 2017-12-6
The pro-autonomy coalition party Pè a Corsica obtains 45% of the votes in the first round of the Corsican Assembly elections preceding the replacement of the departments of Haute Corse and Corse-du-Sud and the region of Corsica, France, with a single territorial collectivity. Two "miscellaneous right" parties and La République En Marche! also achieve the 7% election threshold to reach the second round. 2017-12-3
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
The President of Russia Vladimir Putin says a war with Ukraine is unlikely but refuses to hold more meetings with France, Germany and Ukraine over the ceasefire. 2015-02-23
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