Sources: BBC
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announces that France will ban all pro-Palestinian protests in the country. 2023-10-12
France reports their first three cases of the BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, including one in the Occitania region. 2022-07-22
A commission to investigate sexual abuse by clergy in France reveals that since the 1950s, there have been about 3,000 pedophiles who have committed sex crimes. 2021-10-3
France recalls its ambassadors from the United States and Australia in protest of the security pact, which also includes the United Kingdom. The French Foreign Ministry says that the "exceptional decision" was justified by the seriousness of the pact, which has replaced its own security agreement with Australia. 2021-09-17
Five people who went missing during heavy floods in France two days ago are found dead in river banks in the Italian region of Liguria, while a man is found dead at the border between the two countries. Italy is also affected by floods. A man has died in his car during the floods in the French region of Saint-Martin-Vésubie. 2020-10-4
France shuts down its first nuclear power reactor, at the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant. 2020-02-22
A fire in an apartment block in Paris, France, kills ten and leaves over 30 wounded. The incident is being treated as possible arson. A woman was arrested on suspicion of setting the fire. 2019-02-5
Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is acquitted of pimping charges in France. 2015-06-12
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 find the bodies of eight new-born babies in the village of Villers-au-Tertre in north-east of France. 2010-07-28