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Three people are killed and eighteen others are injured in a fire at an apartment complex in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
2023-08-13

The United Kingdom and France sign a revised border control agreement to stop migrant boats from crossing the English Channel amid record numbers of migrants making the crossing. The agreement will increase the number of officers patrolling the French coast to 300 and have British police officers work with their French counterparts in control rooms and on beaches.
2022-11-14

Jersey rejects 75 French fishing applications, once again raising tensions over disputed fishing rights off Jersey. France condemns the move as French fishermen threaten to impose either a "blockade" of ports, or of lorries travelling to the United Kingdom via the Channel tunnel, as retaliation.
2021-09-29

French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian tells U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that it will take "time and actions" in order to restore confidence and good relations between France and the United States after France condemned the security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced last week.
2021-09-23

Authorities find the bodies of two other men in the two collapsed buildings in Marseille, France, two days ago, bringing the death toll to six.
2018-11-7

French judges clear the Tarnac Nine, accused of performing an anarchist terror sabotage in a controversial trial, of wrongdoing and describe the existence of a terror group as a "fiction". Defence lawyers had accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy's government of misusing counterterror law.
2018-04-13

Paris Zoological Park, France, is evacuated and closed after dozens of baboons escape their enclosure.
2018-01-26

Germany and France call for Britain to negotiate a quick divorce from the European Union.
2016-06-25

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

A French court convicts Venezuela-born terrorist Carlos the Jackal of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s.
2011-12-15