Sources: Le Monde
French prosecutors announce that actor Gérard Depardieu will be tried for the alleged sexual assault of two women in 2021. 2024-04-30
A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia sentences opposition figure Sam Rainsy to life in prison for "attempting to concede territory to a foreign entity". The sentence was delivered "in absentia" because Rainsy has been living in exile in France since 2015. 2022-10-19
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 French Haute Autorité de Santé approves the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. 2021-03-12
Former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya dies from COVID-19 at a hospital in Paris, France. 2020-12-18
At least 10 people have been killed by flash floods in the Aude region of south-western France. A bridge also collapsed in the locality of Villegailhenc, while all roads are inaccessible in Carcassonne. 2018-10-15
A Filipino container ship runs aground on a coral reef near Raroia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia. France sends an aircraft to survey the scene in response to a request for help by Raroia's mayor. 2018-06-25
François Bayrou resigns as France's Minister of Justice amid an ongoing investigation into the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem)'s alleged fraudulent employment of parliamentary assistants. 2017-06-21
In a response to a cyberattack on TV5Monde, the French Minister of Culture and Communications Fleur Pellerin has called for an emergency meeting of the heads of various major media outlets and groups based in France, to take place sometime today at an undisclosed location. 2015-04-10
France's defense ministry says it aided a recent raid by Mauritania against al-Qaeda in North Africa in a failed search for a French hostage. 2010-07-23