Thousands of workers mark May Day by holding protest rallies in France, Spain and Germany amid the coronavirus pandemic.

France imposes a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north amid a rise in the number of coronavirus cases.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty by a court on charges of corruption and influence peddling.

The UN human rights chief calls on France to withdraw a controversial part of a draft security law that would place restrictions on filming police.

Pakistani lawyers wage a protest rally against Islamophobia in France and call for the shut down of the French embassy.

The Russian foreign minister says Moscow will soon impose retaliatory sanctions on German and French officials over opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

Bahraini top cleric has called on Muslims to take a firm stance against French president's anti-Islam remarks

Iran summons the French chargé d’affaires to protest the anti-Muslim comments of the European country’s officials in support of the offensive cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel’s approval of the construction of new settler units in the occupied West Bank is the result of normalization deals between Arab regimes and Tel Aviv.

Two people die and 30 others are missing in heavy flooding that hit southern France and northern Italy.