Sources: BBC
French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will remove its ambassador from the country following a deterioration in relations. 2023-09-24
The French Haute Autorité de santé approves the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years. 2021-12-20
France says that a planned deal between Mali's military junta led by Assimi Goïta and the Wagner Group to bring Russian private military contractors into Mali was "incompatible" with the current French military presence. 2021-09-14
France begins implementing a seven-day quarantine and pre-departure testing for EU nationals, French residents, and anyone travelling to the United Kingdom for essential reasons in order to prevent the spread of the Lineage B.1.617 variant that originated in India as all non-essential travel to the UK is currently banned. 2021-05-31
Fourteen people are on trial in France for their involvement in the 2015 attack on the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo". Three are being tried "in absentia". 2020-09-2
France and Germany end talks with the United States to reform the World Health Organization, after the former two's respective health ministries expressed opposition to the attempt from the US at leading the talks, despite the US having decided to leave the organization. 2020-08-7
One Dutch person and two Afghans are remanded in custody for manslaughter and assistance to illegal immigrants staying in France, after they sold places in inflatable boats for them to reach Great Britain, causing the death of an Iranian woman on 9 August. 2019-10-11
Forest fires in Catalonia, Spain kill four people, with fires also in France, Portugal and Romania. 2012-07-23
A sword-wielding teenager takes up to half a dozen children and a teacher hostage at a nursery in Besançon, eastern France. He is later arrested. 2010-12-13
The United Nations condemns France's crackdown on 40 gypsy camps. 2010-08-12