Sources: Newsweek
France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at the Eurosatory weapons expo convention. 2024-05-31
Iran's IRIB broadcasts purported confessions from two French citizens accused of espionage. This broadcast comes in the context of the Mahsa Amini protests which began in September as well as the claim by the Iranian government that the protests are an attempt by France and other countries such as the United States and Israel to overthrow the current Iranian Islamic government. 2022-10-6
France reports a record for the second consecutive day of 332,252 new cases of COVID-19, which is also the highest daily total recorded in any European nation since the beginning of the pandemic. 2022-01-5
The Verkhovna Rada passes a law banning registration of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia. 2021-01-29
The European Union announces that it will sign a contract to receive 160 million vaccine doses from Moderna. 2020-11-24
"Le Parisien" claims French ex-head of security Yves Bonnet brokered a secret deal with Fatah in the 1980s offering immunity in exchange for no further terror attacks in France. 2019-08-9
France declares the end of the country's state of emergency which was enforced as a reaction to the November 2015 Paris attacks. The state of emergency gets replaced with a new counterterrorism law signed by President Emmanuel Macron. 2017-11-1
France is deploying more than 10,000 personnel to provide security for the two-week UN Climate Change Conference that opens in Le Bourget in Paris on Monday, November 30, 2015. Around 150 heads of state or government are expected to attend COP21's opening day. 2015-11-26
Stéphane Hessel, influential French diplomat, writer, thinker and inspiration for multiple political movements, dies at age 95. 2013-02-27
Thousands of people protest across France against the government's policy of deporting of Romani people. 2010-09-4