Sources: BBC
Over 182,000 demonstrators march in cities across France, protesting the surge in antisemitic incidents since the outbreak of the war. 2023-11-13
Six people are killed, two are missing and five more injured after a gas explosion causes two buildings to collapse in Marseille, France. 2023-04-9
Restaurants, bars, and cafés are reopened in France for outdoor dining for the first time in six months. Museums, theatres, and other cultural venues are also reopened as the curfew is changed to 9:00 p.m. as part of an easing of restrictions. 2021-05-19
At least 15 armed assailants ambush two vans on a highway in Burgundy, France carrying millions of euros worth of jewels. It was the latest in a string of big jewel heists in France. 2015-03-11
A gunman kills three people with a Kalashnikov rifle in a shooting attack in Istres, France. 2013-04-25
President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou confirms that French special forces are protecting one of the country's biggest uranium mines, owned by the French company Areva. They are also said to be "strengthening security". 2013-02-4
French troops take Timbuktu while Tuareg forces of MNLA claim they control the city of Kidal in the north of Mali. 2013-01-29
France’s Constitutional Council strikes down the government’s plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy. 2012-12-29
French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million-year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. 2011-08-2
Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide, is arrested in France. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-1-hi-world-europe-8545120.stm (BBC)] [http:--www.france24.com-en-20100302-widow-slain-rwandan-leader-arrested-france (France 24)]date=August 2019 2010-03-2