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Riots occur across France a day after President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech on pension reform. The entrance to City Hall in Bordeaux is set on fire.
2023-03-23

A history teacher is stabbed and decapitated near a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Île-de-France, France. The killer is shot dead by police. The anti-terrorism prosecutor investigates the murder, which is described by President Emmanuel Macron as an "Islamist attack". The victim is believed to have shown caricatures of Islam's prophet Muhammad to his students during a lesson.
2020-10-16

The entire board of France's César Awards resigns following controversy over the Academy giving Roman Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy" 12 award nominations, the most out of any film this year.
2020-02-13

The two suspect brothers take a hostage at a sign printing company, Création Tendance Découverte, in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goële.
2015-01-9

Reports indicate that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had high levels of polonium in his body when he died.
2013-11-8

The remains of Yasser Arafat are exhumed as part of an investigation into how the Palestinian leader died in November 2004.
2012-11-27

Palestinian officials announce the body of former leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed to investigate whether his death in Paris in 2004 was caused by poisoning.
2012-11-24

French officials open up a murder case in the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following a "complaint against X" by his widow.
2012-08-28

The Fromelles Military Cemetery is opened in Fromelles in northern France containing the graves of 250 Australian and British soldiers who died in the Battle of Fromelles in World War I and had previously been buried in a mass grave.
2010-07-19

Hamas executions by firing squad of Palestinians accused of aiding Israel is condemned as murder by France, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, urges Hamas to halt plans for further killings.
2010-04-19