Sources: CNN
Organized demonstrations and walkouts of scientists take place across 30 cities in the United States and France in protest of the Donald Trump administration's grant budget and employment cuts to several government scientific agencies. 2025-03-7
President of France Emmanuel Macron announces that the country will send Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and train its pilots by the end of 2024. 2024-06-6
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
Guadeloupe confirms its first case of COVID-19, a 36-year-old woman returning from a cruise with relatives who recently visited Metropolitan France. 2020-03-13
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 French frigate "Chevalier Paul" leaves the port city of Toulon, though the shipping authorities declined to confirm a media report that it was headed to Syria. 2013-08-29
A Chinese-made training airplane K-8 crashes during an air force flying exhibition in Venezuela, the two pilots ejected successfully. The French-made military helicopter Cougar sent to rescue the pilots also crashes, no one is injured. 2012-11-27
France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels. 2011-04-20
France detains Rwandan doctor Eugene Rwamucyo, wanted by Interpol since 2006 and accused of involvement in the Rwandan Genocide. 2010-05-27