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France summons the Israeli ambassador to France over recent attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, calling the attacks a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself.
2024-10-11

Algeria withdraws its ambassador from France after France declared its support for the Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal, which was proposed by Morocco in 2007.
2024-07-30

France begins implementing a seven-day quarantine and pre-departure testing for EU nationals, French residents, and anyone travelling to the United Kingdom for essential reasons in order to prevent the spread of the Lineage B.1.617 variant that originated in India as all non-essential travel to the UK is currently banned.
2021-05-31

France's "Yellow Vest" protests over fuel taxes enter their fourth day as around 10,000 people continue to block roads around the country.
2018-11-20

A man drives into a crowd of pedestrians in Antwerp, Belgium, injuring several people. Police arrest the man, who is believed to be North African born and living in France.
2017-03-23

The Piton de la Fournaise (Peak of the Furnace) shield volcano on France's Réunion island in the Indian Ocean erupts for the second time this year. It is one of the world's most active.
2016-09-12

French jet destroys a Libyan plane that breached the no-fly zone.
2011-03-24

Iranian human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is sentenced to 11 years in prison and banned from practicing law or traveling for 20 years; France condemns the punishment as "deeply shocking" and called for the release of Sotoudeh and another activist, Shiva Nazar-Ahari, who was sentenced to four years in prison and 74 lashes.
2011-01-10

Police in Grenoble, France arrest four people for attempted murder whom they claim protested the fatal shooting of a man by police.
2010-07-18

A French police officer dies in a shootout with Basque nationalist group ETA in Paris, the first French officer to do so.
2010-03-17