Sources: Newsweek
French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu says that France will use €195 million in interest from Russian assets to fund a military aid package to Ukraine. 2025-03-9
President Bernardo Arévalo announced that the remains of Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias, would be repatriated to Guatemala. Asturias is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. 2024-06-9
The Public Health Institute of Chile approves the usage of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children over the age of six. 2021-09-6
The United Kingdom's National Health Service begins a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the BNT162b2 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. Seniors over the age of 80 and certain healthcare workers will be among the first to receive the vaccine. 2020-12-8
The European Medicines Agency announces that they will launch a review for vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. 2020-10-6
The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran as no longer in force. He also warns that the United States "is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences" for other countries that do not enforce the sanctions. Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia oppose the snapback sanctions. 2020-09-19
France is put on high alert due to concerns of ISIL revenge attacks. 2019-10-27
Paris Zoological Park, France, is evacuated and closed after dozens of baboons escape their enclosure. 2018-01-26
An experimental vaccine for dengue fever has been developed in Manila. 2014-07-11
Tens of thousands of Kurds pour into the streets of Diyarbakir, Turkey, for the funeral of Sakine Cansız, the co-founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, who was killed in Paris, France, on January 9. 2013-01-17