Sources: BBC
French President Emmanuel Macron tells major world leaders gathered at an AI summit in Paris that France is "back in the AI race". His remarks came following the announcement that the country would be receiving AI private investments worth a total of €109 billion (US$112 billion) over the coming years. 2025-02-10
A fire at a retirement home in Bouffémont, Val-d'Oise, France, kills three people and leaves nine others injured. 2025-02-1
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announces that France will ban all pro-Palestinian protests in the country. 2023-10-12
The Gloucestershire Constabulary arrest a man near Cheltenham, Cotswolds, England, as a prime suspect in conspiring to transport 30 illegal immigrants from France to the United Kingdom on an inflatable boat, of which all but three died when the boat capsized in transit along the English Channel in 2021. 2022-11-29
France surpasses 10 million cases of COVID-19, becoming the sixth country to reach the milestone. 2022-01-1
Kosovo reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people who travelled from the United States, a person who travelled from France, two people who travelled from the United Kingdom, and four people with no international travel history. 2021-12-26
France's Valneva SE vaccine enters phase 3 of clinical trials. 2021-04-21
A court in France sentences five women to prison terms for their roles in the failed bombing. A Syrian man, thought to have been killed in Iraq in 2017, is sentenced to life "in absentia". 2019-10-15
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
French police dismantle Romani camps in Saint-Étienne by order of the president. 2010-08-6