France suffers second day of sabotage train delaysTens of thousands of rail passengers faced a second day of cancelled trains as saboteurs paralysed the network ahead of the Paris Olympics ...
27 Jul, 2024, 07.05 PM IST
Olympics opening ceremony saw no major reported issues: French officialFrance's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, praised security forces for a "event without incident" during the opening ceremony of the Olym...
27 Jul, 2024, 12.00 PM IST
Security concerns rise over Paris Pride ahead of electionsAs France heads to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could bring the far-right to power, there ...
30 Jun, 2024, 12.17 AM IST
Protesting French farmers plan blockade of ParisFor days, nationwide protests have flared in the European Union's largest agriculture producing country, with farmers angered by insufficie...
29 Jan, 2024, 02.52 PM IST
German tourist stabbed to death in Paris 'terror' attackA person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded tw...
03 Dec, 2023, 07.59 AM IST
French school killer claimed attack for Islamic State groupA man who killed a French schoolteacher claimed to be acting for the Islamic State (IS) group in a video recorded before the attack. The at...
17 Oct, 2023, 05.54 PM IST
Eleven missing after fire breaks out in disabled people cottage in FranceEleven missing after fire breaks out in disabled people cottage in France. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said there were likely several...
09 Aug, 2023, 04.44 PM IST
Grandmother of dead French teen urges calm as mayor's home attackedViolent protests in France continue after the fatal shooting of a French teenager by the police. President Macron's government has deployed...
02 Jul, 2023, 09.03 PM IST
France deploys 45,000 police, armored vehicles amid riotsUnrest has flared nationwide, including in cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille as well as Paris where Nahel M., ...
01 Jul, 2023, 06.40 AM IST
Knife attacker injures several people, including children, in French Alpine townA man armed with a knife attacked a group of children aged around three years old at 9:45 am (0745 GMT) on Thursday at a park near the lake...
08 Jun, 2023, 05.00 PM IST
Thousands protest French government's immigration plansThousands marched in French cities in protest against the planned changes to immigration laws and evictions of illegal migrants from Mayott...
30 Apr, 2023, 07.56 AM IST
Wildfire in southwestern France: 6,000 people evacuatedThe blaze forced the evacuation of about 6,000 people and destroyed at least sixteen houses. A major highway near the city of Bordeaux was ...
10 Aug, 2022, 08.07 PM IST
Wildfires rage in southwestern France amid new heatwaveFrance, like the rest of Europe, is coping with heatwaves and drought that have triggered multiple wildfires across the continent over the ...
10 Aug, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
UEFA says sorry to fans for Champions League final chaos"UEFA wishes to sincerely apologise to all spectators who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events in the build-up t...
04 Jun, 2022, 10.42 PM IST
EU agrees to offer protection to Ukraine refugeesEU interior ministers agreed in a Brussels meeting to activate a temporary protection mechanism drawn up two decades ago -- in response to ...
03 Mar, 2022, 09.52 PM IST
New military letter warns Emmanuel Macron over 'survival' of FranceThe letter posted on the Valeurs Actuelles website late Sunday echoes the tone of a similar letter published by same magazine last month, w...
10 May, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
France draws up bill on surveillance of jihadist websites"The last nine attacks on French soil were committed by individuals who were unknown to the security services, who were not on a watchlist ...
28 Apr, 2021, 04.37 PM IST