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France introduces new measures to ban homemade masks in educational institutions, requiring school children over the age of six to only wear category 1 masks in schools.
2021-02-8

France reports 45,422 new cases of infections, the highest single-day spike in the country since the pandemic began, according to a statement from the Health Ministry. In turn, the total number of cases topped 1.08 million.
2020-10-24

French Health Minister Olivier Véran confirms the first death of a doctor treating COVID-19 patients.
2020-03-22

A bus from Wales carrying 50 people, including 41 teenagers, tips over in eastern France, injuring 13, two seriously.
2016-07-23

France is deploying more than 10,000 personnel to provide security for the two-week UN Climate Change Conference that opens in Le Bourget in Paris on Monday, November 30, 2015. Around 150 heads of state or government are expected to attend COP21's opening day.
2015-11-26

Bolivia summons the ambassadors of France, Spain and Portugal to explain why their countries blocked President Evo Morales' official jet "en route" to land on the Eurozone last week, amid orders to be searched if Edward Snowden was on board.
2013-07-8

A French journalist is killed, along with eight others, by a mortar in the Syrian city of Homs.
2012-01-11

France's National Assembly votes in favour of a bill criminalising any denial that the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the 1910s was genocide.
2011-12-22

French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux states that Saudi Arabia has warned that Al-Qaeda is targeting Europe particularly France.
2010-10-17

A 4.5 earthquake shakes offshore of Oléron, France, with no reported casualties.
2010-09-28