Sources: BBC
Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. 2025-11-30
Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people. 2024-05-14
Over 182,000 demonstrators march in cities across France, protesting the surge in antisemitic incidents since the outbreak of the war. 2023-11-13
France reports their first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a man who travelled from South Africa to the Haut-Rhin region and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-12-31
Authorities arrest two French journalists for allegedly attempting to blackmail King Mohammed VI of Morocco. 2015-08-28
France orders an official investigation into the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 which had a French copilot flying the aircraft at the time of its crash. 2015-01-31
A coach crash in southern France kills two tourists and injures 30. 2013-08-11
Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps, two days following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers. 2012-07-14
About 700 anti-nuclear activists hold a die-in on the border of France and Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan. 2011-04-25
Female poet Simin Behbahani says the government of Iran has issued her with a "travel ban" after confiscating her passport at Tehran International Airport as she was about to travel to France. 2010-03-8