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Firefighters in France hold back vast wildfire as heat returns to test their grip

July 28, 2026 admin

Firefighters kept a vast wildfire in southwest France in check overnight into Tuesday (July 28, 2026), bringing flare-ups near Atlantic coast dunes under control in a crucial reprieve before returning heat and falling humidity threaten to test their hold on the blaze. The fire remained stabilised at 6 a.m. after a calm night and the…

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France deaths rose by 30% during heatwave

July 3, 2026 admin

Public Health France said in a new report there had been “an increase of 29.1%, corresponding to 2,025 additional deaths compared with the previous week” while noting that the figure was probably “an underestimate”. | Photo Credit: Reuters France endured a rise of nearly 30% in the number of deaths recorded during the week of…

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Europe’s deadly heatwave scorches eastern flank, takes aim at Ukraine

June 29, 2026 admin

People cool off under a water curtain as Poland faces extreme heat, in Warsaw, Poland, June 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The most severe heatwave ever recorded in Europe roasted central and eastern parts of the continent on Monday (June 29, 2026) and began to creep over Ukraine, which scrambled to prepare its war-ravaged…

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France records around 1,000 additional deaths amid extreme heat wave leading to European records

June 28, 2026 admin

France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said on Sunday (June 28, 2026), as Europeans elsewhere were suffering through yet another day of new temperature highs that sparked wildfires in Germany and had Berlin police using water cannons to cool down…

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France heatwave’s first major outage leaves 68,000 homes without power

June 24, 2026 admin

People cool off in the Trocadero fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower as temperatures rise in Paris during a heatwave affecting a large part of France, June 23, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Europe’s record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in northwestern France on Wednesday (June 24, 2026),” authorities said, in the…

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Forty drown in France as people seek relief from heatwave

June 23, 2026 admin

Forty people have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas in France since the weekend, the prime minister said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026), as people tried to escape a heatwave ‌sweeping across much of Europe. Britain, Italy and Spain are also sweltering in extreme heat, with record temperatures in some regions disrupting schools and transport…

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Europe sweats through new heatwave, with worse to come

June 22, 2026 admin

France banned alcohol in red-alert areas on Sunday (June 21, 2026), Spain and Germany cancelled or postponed sports events and Britain warned of “tropical nights” as Europe sweltered through a heatwave threatening to break June temperature records. Less than a month after a May heatwave that set records in several European countries, the continent is…

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France restricts public alcohol consumption, outdoor sports as heat wave bakes parts of Europe

June 21, 2026 admin

A woman with a hand fan stands on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower as temperatures rise in Paris during a second heatwave affecting a large part of France. | Photo Credit: Reuters France is putting emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricting public alcohol consumption and cancelling some outdoor sports events…

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France restricts public alcohol consumption, outdoor sports as heat wave bakes parts of Europe

June 21, 2026 admin

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