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Two French aid workers are killed in a Russian drone strike near Beryslav in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. Four people are also injured in the strike.
2024-02-1

Benoît Maria, a French human rights activist who helped indigenous people in Guatemala, is shot dead while driving near San Antonio Ilotenango in Quiché.
2020-08-11

About 130 French citizens who joined the Islamic State are expected to be returned to France by their Kurdish captors to face trial.
2019-01-29

Denmark's Prince Henrik announces he won't be buried next to Queen Margrethe II in the Roskilde Cathedral where Danish royals have been buried since 1559. The 83-year-old, French-born Henrik has been dissatisfied with his non-equal role as Prince consort. The 77-year old Margrethe, who had a specially designed sarcophagus made for the couple, accepts Henrik's decision, according to a royal house spokeswoman.
2017-08-4

French taxidrivers, air traffic controllers and school teachers go on strike over working conditions and competition from non-traditional services such as Uber.
2016-01-26

French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the Germanwings flight that crashed in southern France have all been identified, and their bodies can be returned home to their families.
2015-05-19

A French air traffic controllers strike causes the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout Europe.
2015-04-8

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb release Serge Lazarevic, a French hostage seized three years ago in Mali.
2014-12-9

A French appeals court upholds a 2009 conviction of the Church of Scientology on fraud charges.
2012-02-2

Two freed French journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, return to France after being held captive in Afghanistan by the Taliban for 18 months.
2011-06-30