Sources: AP
Moody's downgrades France's bond credit rating to "Aa3" from "Aa2" following the collapse of the Barnier government, citing "political fragmentation" as a threat to the country's ability to reduce its public debt and lower its deficit. 2024-12-14
A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia sentences opposition figure Sam Rainsy to life in prison for "attempting to concede territory to a foreign entity". The sentence was delivered "in absentia" because Rainsy has been living in exile in France since 2015. 2022-10-19
France seizes a British trawler fishing inside its territorial waters without a licence, and fines another vessel amid tensions over post-Brexit fishing rights in the English Channel. The trawler is being held at the Port of Le Havre. The French government also says that, beginning November 2, it will impose extra customs checks on British goods entering France. French Seas Minister Annick Girardin says that "It's not war, but it is a fight". 2021-10-28
François Bayrou resigns as France's Minister of Justice amid an ongoing investigation into the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem)'s alleged fraudulent employment of parliamentary assistants. 2017-06-21
French authorities give up to 1000 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, until 8 p.m. local time on 23 February to leave the Calais jungle camp. Those who refuse to leave will be forcibly removed by police. 2016-02-20
Around 200 migrants storm the French port of Calais, near the Channel Tunnel to Britain, after a demonstration in support of migrants living in the nearby Calais jungle camp, with approximately 50 of them boarding the P&O Ferries operated MS "Spirit of Britain" cross-border ferry. The port was closed following the incident. 2016-01-23
Authorities in Millau, France have formally charged two men in last Sunday's machete attack in which three Clermont Auvergne rugby union players were injured. [http:--www.afp.com-en-news-two-youths-charged-over-machete-attack-france-rugby-players (AFP)]date=August 2019 2014-07-23
Support for the protests in Turkey spread across Europe with demonstrators gathering outside the EU Parliament in Brussels, and France. 2013-06-4
Two French soldiers are killed and one injured in a drive-by shooting in southern France. 2012-03-15
Three bodies are found by rescuers at a crash site in Antarctica involving a French helicopter. A fourth person is still missing. 2010-10-29