https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A 17-year-old suspected of having lobbed a grenade into a crowded bar in the southeastern French city of Grenoble has been arrested and is in police custody, a prosecutor told AFP on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250222/teen-suspect-in-french-bar-grenade-attack-in-custody Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:17 +0100 teen-suspect-in-french-bar-grenade-attack-in-custody France said on Sunday it would not recognize Russia's election in the Crimea peninsula, four years to the day after Russia formally annexed the territory from Ukraine in a move slammed by the West as illegal. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180318/france-does-not-recognise-russian-vote-in-crimea Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:01:14 +0100 france-does-not-recognise-russian-vote-in-crimea France and Germany on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian opposite number to ensure that a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is enforced, warning there has been little let-up in the violence. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170829/merkel-macron-urge-russia-and-ukraine-to-abide-by-commitments-and-back-ceasefire Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:03:41 +0200 merkel-macron-urge-russia-and-ukraine-to-abide-by-commitments-and-back-ceasefire Ukraine's ambassador to France has voiced his "shock" at the new 2016 edition of a French atlas which features a map showing "Crimea as being part of Russian territory." https://www.thelocal.fr/20151014/crimea-russia-anger-as-french-atlas-places Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:35:21 +0200 crimea-russia-anger-as-french-atlas-places France's foreign minstry has deplored a group of opposition MPs who are paying a visit to the peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150724/french-mps-under-fire-for-trip-to-crimea Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:41:38 +0200 french-mps-under-fire-for-trip-to-crimea France will not make a decision on whether to scrap a controversial €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) deal to sell two Mistral warships to Russia until October. Paris hsa come under pressure to cancel the sale because of Russian agression in the Crimea. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140320/france-delays-dedcision-to-scrap-russia-warship-deal Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:18:00 +0100 france-delays-dedcision-to-scrap-russia-warship-deal French president François Hollande reacted angrily on Tuesday to Moscow signing a treaty that makes Crimea part of Russia, demanding a strong response from the EU. The French foreign minister earlier threatened to call off a deal to sell two warships to Russia. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140318/france-could-cancel-warship-deal-with-russia Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:16:00 +0100 france-could-cancel-warship-deal-with-russia The French president François Hollande made it clear to Vladimir Putin that annexing Crimea would be "unacceptable", as the West steps up the pressure on Russia over its actions towards Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140312/hollande-to-putin-annexing-crimea-is-unnacceptable Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:11:00 +0100 hollande-to-putin-annexing-crimea-is-unnacceptable Despite France's anger over Russia's stance towards the Crimea the country's president François Hollande said a controversial sale of two state-of-the art warships by France to Russia was still on course. But the French government will boycott the Winter Paralympics in Sochi. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140307/french-officials-to-boycott-sochi-para Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:00:00 +0100 french-officials-to-boycott-sochi-para The French foreign minister Laurent Fabius expressed his deep concern about the growing tensions in Crimea on Friday, which one expert told The Local was a "dangerous" situation that now affects all of Europe. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140228/ukraine-france-eu-tension-russia Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:12:00 +0100 ukraine-france-eu-tension-russia