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A fire damages the spire of the 11th-century Rouen Cathedral, in Normandy, France, while undergoing restoration. No further damage or injuries are reported.
2024-07-11

France advises its citizens against traveling to Iran, Lebanon, Israel Palestine due to the risk of military escalation.
2024-04-12

The French National Assembly votes 135 to 125 to approve the extension of the COVID-19 Health Pass until at least July 31, 2022. The bill will be debated at the French Senate on October 28 in preparation for adopting the bill on November 15.
2021-10-21

Defence minister Sadio Camara asks Mali's main Islamic body, the High Islamic Council, to mediate peace talks between the government and the local branch of al-Qaeda, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The move is strongly opposed by France.
2021-10-19

France bans far-right Identitarian nationalist group Génération Identitaire. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin says the movement incites "discrimination, hatred and violence".
2021-03-3

Voting takes place in the first round of the French Socialist Party presidential primary to select a candidate to run in this year's presidential election.
2017-01-22

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) opens a humanitarian camp for migrants in the Grande-Synthe suburb of Dunkerque, France.
2016-03-7

French very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellite Pléiades-HR 1B is launched successfully via a Russian Soyuz STA rocket out of the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana.
2012-12-2

Leaders from Germany, France and the United Kingdom hold an emergency meeting at the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit after panic selling of Irish debt spreads to Spain and Portugal.
2010-11-12

Tens of thousands of workers strike in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age in France.
2010-05-27