Sources: Newsweek
A gynaecologist from Bonneville, France is sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients. 2025-07-5
France's top administrative court upholds a ban on female footballers wearing Islamic headscarves. 2023-06-29
The Public Health Institute of Chile approves the usage of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children over the age of six. 2021-09-6
A female police administrative officer is killed in a stabbing attack at a police station in Rambouillet, France. The attacker is then shot dead at the scene. It is being investigated as a terrorist attack. 2021-04-23
Taiwan receives their first shipment of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-3
Multiple people are injured in Lyon, France, by a bomb filled with bolts. 2019-05-24
A Swiss Boeing F-A-18 military jet crashes in France while on a training mission, injuring the pilot. The Swiss defense ministry has said it did not know what caused the accident. 2015-10-14
Police in France discover the bodies of Sakine Cansız, one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and two other Kurdish activists who were all shot dead in a Kurdish information center in the capital, Paris. 2013-01-10
2011 Syrian protests: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom summon Syrian ambassadors to condemn the government's recent violent crackdown on people protesting against the Bashar al-Assad regime. 2011-04-27
Tens of thousands of workers strike in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age in France. 2010-05-27