Sources: ABC news
The International Olympic Committee says that athletes from Russia and Belarus will not receive invitations to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, and will only be able to compete as neutral athletes. 2023-07-13
France begins to require people who want to attend cinemas, museums, sporting events and other cultural venues or events with more than 50 people to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result amid an increase in the number of cases caused by the Delta variant. 2021-07-21
The United Nations Security Council has resoundingly rejected a United States bid to extend a global arms embargo on Iran. In a Security Council vote, United States only got support from the Dominican Republic for its resolution to indefinitely extend the arms embargo on Iran, leaving it far short of the minimum nine "yes" votes required for adoption. Eleven members on the 15-member body, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, abstained while Russia and China opposed extending the ban but did not need to use their vetoes. 2020-08-14
Thirty-three people are injured, four critically, when a FlixBus overturns at an exit near Amiens, France. 2019-11-3
A flight plan transmission computer system fails in France, causing disruption to international flights across Western Europe. 2019-09-1
John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, is taken to hospital in Switzerland with a broken leg following a cycling accident in the nearby French town of Scionzier. Kerry had been in Geneva negotiating with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. 2015-05-31
Famous actor Gérard Depardieu decides to give up his French citizenship and move to Belgium for a permanent residence to avoid taxes. 2012-12-17
French investigators report that flight recorders recovered from the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 nearly two years after the crash are still readable. 2011-05-16
France sends two planeloads of aid to opponents of the Libyan regime in Benghazi. 2011-02-28
Former dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega is extradited from the United States to France. 2010-04-26