Sources: BBC
French police arrests a man suspected of attempted arson upon a synagogue in La Grande-Motte, Occitanie, France. The incident is being treated as an anti-semitic terrorist attack. 2024-08-24
French police report multiple sabotage acts targeting telecommunications operators in parts of the country, affecting 11,000 clients, with the incidents being treated as vandalism. 2024-07-29
A priest is murdered at a church in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France, by the same person who committed the arson at the Nantes Cathedral in July 2020. He is arrested after confessing to the killing. 2021-08-9
At least four skiers are killed in an avalanche at the Tignes resort in France. 2017-02-13
Leaders from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine meet in the Belarusian capital Minsk for peace talks. 2015-02-11
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
The price of oil reaches an eight month high following Iran banning sales to Britain and France on Sunday. 2012-02-20
France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels. 2011-04-20
Police in Grenoble, France arrest four people for attempted murder whom they claim protested the fatal shooting of a man by police. 2010-07-18
Tens of thousands of workers strike in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age in France. 2010-05-27