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Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
2025-11-30

A court in Paris, France, sentences Lebanese Canadian lecturer and professor Hassan Diab to life in prison over the bombing of a Parisian synagogue in 1980. Diab was tried in absentia and he remains in Canada under the request of arrest and extradition from French authorities.
2023-04-21

In Madagascar, twenty people, including two French nationals, are charged with crimes including criminal conspiracy, criminal association, rebellion against the president and possession of illegal weapons, for allegedly plotting to kill president Andry Rajoelina.
2021-12-6

Former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya dies from COVID-19 at a hospital in Paris, France.
2020-12-18

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

A gunman shoots and injures six people at a bar in Marseille, France. The gunman is still at large.
2019-11-1

Paris, France, implements a pollution-reduction program that bans residents from driving cars built before 1997, and motorcycles built before 2000, on weekdays inside the city limits between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
2016-07-1

Train services in the Channel Tunnel are suspended after a freight train fire on the French side. Everybody on the train is safely evacuated, traffic is resumed two hours after.
2012-11-29

President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, shot by troops yesterday, is flown to France.
2012-10-14

Cuba refuses to grant a visa to dissident Guillermo Fariñas so that he could receive the Sakharov Prize in France.
2010-12-15