Sources: CNN
French President Emmanuel Macron announces an emergency summit in Paris, France, between European leaders following a controversial speech given by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference in which he criticized European leadership as the worst threat to Europe, particularly for imposing too much censorship and too little control over migration. 2025-02-15
Five people are killed during a shooting spree between Dunkirk and Loon-Plage, in Nord Department, France. A man is detained. 2024-12-14
A man is shot dead by police after trying to set a synagogue on fire in Rouen, France. 2024-05-17
Two prison guards are killed and three others are critically injured in an ambush of a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France, to free an inmate with ties to a drug dealing gang. 2024-05-14
Voters in France go to the polls to elect their next President. 2022-04-10
Two men armed with knives take a priest, two nuns and two parishioners hostage in a church near Rouen in the French region of Normandy. French police kill the hostage-takers after the 86-year-old priest, Jacques Hamel, was killed by slitting his throat. 2016-07-26
A large fire 12 mi west of the French city of Bordeaux ravages more than 350 ha of forest. 2015-07-25
Voters in France go to the polls for municipal elections with candidates from the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement performing well. 2014-03-23
France's top rabbi, Gilles Bernheim resigns after admitting he does not hold a philosophy degree as claimed and had engaged in plagiarism. 2013-04-11
Japan protests to France about the sale of DCNS helicopter landing equipment to the People's Republic of China. 2013-03-18