Sources: CNN
France's New Popular Front (NFP) party suspends future talks with President Emmanuel Macron to break a political deadlock after Macron refused to implement a leftist-led coalition government despite the NFP receiving the second-most votes in the legislative election, and also calls for nationwide protests against Macron's "parody of democracy". 2024-08-27
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
Alex Batty, a British boy who went missing in Spain in 2017 when he was 11, is found alive in France. 2023-12-14
The French National Authority for Health limits the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged over 55 years old after it was discovered that three patients who suffered blood clots are younger than 55 years old. 2021-03-19
French Health Minister Olivier Véran confirms the first death of a doctor treating COVID-19 patients. 2020-03-22
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
The Eurozone moves out of 18 months of recession because of Germany and France. There was a growth rate of 0.3% in the June quarter. 2013-08-14
Norwegian black metal musician, Kristian "Varg" Vikernes, and his wife are arrested in France on suspicion of alleged plans for a terrorist act after buying 4 rifles at the same time. 2013-07-16
Support for the protests in Turkey spread across Europe with demonstrators gathering outside the EU Parliament in Brussels, and France. 2013-06-4