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Kurds riot near the Place de la République in Paris, France, damaging shops and setting fires. The Paris Police Prefecture reports 11 arrests and at least 30 minor injuries in relation to the violence. The riot followed a peaceful protest in response to yesterday's mass shooting at a Kurdish cultural center that killed three people.
2022-12-24

Ten people are killed and 14 others are injured in a residential building fire in Vaulx-en-Velin, Lyon Metropolis, France.
2022-12-16

France's GDP contracts 8.3% in 2020, the country's worst economic performance since World War II.
2021-01-29

France reports a record 52,518 new infections in the past 24 hours, raising its cumulative case total to 1.46 million.
2020-11-2

A Greek Orthodox priest is critically wounded after being shot twice while closing his church in Lyon, France. The attacker fled the scene. The victim, a Greek national, is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
2020-10-31

France surpasses one million COVID-19 cases after a record 42,032 new infections are reported in the last 24 hours, becoming the second European Union country to reach the milestone after Spain and the seventh country in the world to reach the same level.
2020-10-23

People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms. Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected.
2018-03-22

France bans the breeding of killer whales and dolphins in captivity and orders aquariums and water parks to expand their pools within three years following a campaign by animal rights groups.
2017-05-7

France deports twenty Russian football fans including Alexander Shprygin, the leader of the All-Russia Supporters Union, following violence at the England–Russia match in Marseille.
2016-06-16

A French court convicts Venezuela-born terrorist Carlos the Jackal of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s.
2011-12-15