French artist seeks war crimes probe on IDF strike
French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri filed a complaint in France on April 3, 2026, requesting a war crimes investigation into an Israeli strike on an apartment building i...
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French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri filed a complaint in France on April 3, 2026, requesting a war crimes investigation into an Israeli strike on an apartment building i...
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On February 27, 2026, newly released U.S. Department of Justice documents revealed a 2014 email from European modeling scout Daniel Siad to convicted sex offender Jeff...
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On February 24, 2026, Bill Gates spoke during a Gates Foundation town hall meeting and acknowledged that he had two extramarital affairs with Russian women while marri...
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Ori Solomon released ahead of trial in Las Vegas illegal biolab case Ori Solomon, 55, has been identified as the property manager of a Las Vegas residence w...
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New Developments in Roman Polanski Allegations Roman Polanski, the French-Polish film director, has faced renewed attention in 2026 regarding historical allegations o...
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Melinda French Gates says Bill Gates must answer questions about Epstein files On February 3, 2026, philanthropist Melinda French Gates addressed newly released docum...
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French Judges Issue Arrest Warrants for French-Israeli Activists Over Complicity in Genocide French investigating judges in Paris have issued warrants for t...
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U.S. President Donald Trump posted a series of messages on his Truth Social platform in which he shared private texts from French President Emmanuel Macron and the NAT...
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Political tensions intensified today at the World Economic Forum in Davos as disagreements between the United States and several European nations dominated discussions...
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French journalist Nora Bussigny conducted a year‑long undercover investigation within anti‑Israel and far‑left activist circles in France. Her findings are published i...
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On September 30, 2025, South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa, was found dead outside the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile hotel in Paris....
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Pavel Durov Arrested By French Authorities Over Platform Allegations On August 24, 2024, French police arrested **Pavel Durov**, the Russian‑born co‑founder...
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Olivier Duhamel, a prominent French political scientist and academic leader, was accused in 2021 of sexually abusing his stepson over many years. The revelations, publ...
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A French schoolgirl later admitted that she had falsely claimed that her teacher, Samuel Paty, was Islamophobic. She said she had not been present in the classroom dur...
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On May 24, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during an official state visit to Israel. Macron placed his hands on the stones...
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One of the clearest documented cases of Israeli intelligence activity that damaged relations with allies involves the use of forged or cloned passports belonging to ci...
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Soraya Manutchehri was a 35-year-old Iranian woman who, according to accounts published by French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, was stoned to death in the vil...
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The Vietnam War was a prolonged armed conflict fought primarily between North Vietnam, led by the Communist Party under Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam, supported by th...
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Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey on April 11, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, to Jewish parents. His father, Michael Joseph Levey, was of French-American...
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The German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact And Its Secret Protocols On August 23, 1939, the governments of Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression t...
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Gaston Méry (10 31 1866 – 6 17 1909), a French journalist and playwright, is among the first documented figures to use the term “racisme” in French nationalist and ant...
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Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (7 14 1816 – 10 13 1882), a French diplomat and writer, published his four-volume work Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines between 1853 ...
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The Vendée Massacres occurred during the War in the Vendée, a counter-revolutionary uprising in western France from 1793 to 1796. The conflict was marked by violent cl...
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1954–1970 — Nasser becomes the dominant leader of revolutionary Egypt and formally assumes the presidency in 1956. His government promotes Arab nationalism, land refor...
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1 July 1916 — British and French forces open the Somme offensive after an enormous artillery preparation. The first day becomes the bloodiest single day in British mil...
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21 February 1916 — Germany launches a major offensive against the fortified Verdun region. French forces commit enormous manpower and artillery to prevent the fortress...
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19 February 1915 — British and French naval forces begin major operations against the Ottoman defenses of the Dardanelles. The Allies hope to force the straits, threat...
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6 September 1914 — French and British forces begin the counteroffensive known as the First Battle of the Marne. The German advance toward Paris is halted and German ar...
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1914–1918 — Austro-Hungarian, Italian, French, Serbian and other forces occupy different parts of Albania. The country largely loses unified central government during ...
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1914–1918 wartime production — Schneider is a major French heavy-industrial and armaments producer whose factories supply artillery and military material to the French...
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1 July 1798 — French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte land in Egypt. The invasion aims to weaken British access to India while expanding French influence in the eastern...
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20 October 1827 — British, French and Russian fleets destroy the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet.
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March–November 1918 as Allied supreme commander — French General Ferdinand Foch receives increasingly broad authority to coordinate Allied armies during Germany's fina...
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11 January 1923 — French and Belgian troops occupy Germany's Ruhr industrial region after Germany falls behind on reparations deliveries. The German government respond...
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22 June 1940 — France signs an armistice with Germany after the collapse of organized resistance in much of the country. Germany occupies northern and western France w...
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1917–1920 as French prime minister — Clemenceau leads France through the final year of the war and becomes one of the dominant figures at the Paris Peace Conference. F...
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10 May 1940 — Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Allied armies move north into Belgium expecting the principal German attack there. Inste...
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7 March 1936 — German troops enter the demilitarized Rhineland in violation of the Versailles and Locarno arrangements. Hitler's forces have orders to retreat if confr...
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8 November 1942 — American and British forces land in French North Africa. The operation brings large American ground forces into combat against the European Axis and ...
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25 August 1944 — French and Allied forces complete the liberation of Paris after an uprising by resistance groups and the arrival of Free French troops. General Charle...
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26 July 1941 — Following Japan's movement into southern French Indochina, the United States freezes Japanese assets. British and Dutch measures follow, and Japanese ac...
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