Sources: CNN
French president Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman reach an agreement to build a "Dragon Ball Z" theme park worth €6 billion (US$7 million) in Paris, France. 2026-08-24
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
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
The death toll of the heavy floods in France rises to 14, while another person is missing. 2018-10-17
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
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
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
The Basque nationalist group ETA announces a ceasefire in its struggle for Basque independence from France and Spain. 2010-09-5