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UNESCO on Sunday added the iconic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy to its World Heritage List, marking the culmination of a project launched nearly two decades ago. Stretching for more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) of France’s northwestern coast, Allied forces landed on the beaches on June 6, 1944 to fight a decisive battle to … Read more

A dense blanket of smoke has hung over Bordeaux since last Friday as a massive wildfire burns its way through southwestern France. As the flames creep closer to the city, FRANCE 24 puts residents stunned by the scale of the disaster and fearful of what comes next. Source link

France’s interior minister said Monday that a monster wildfire has stopped growing after forcing 220,000 people out of their homes in the country’s southwest but cautioned that it isn’t yet beaten. He spoke after French President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis meeting Monday focusing on the massive firefighting effort in the Gironde region and on … Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis meeting Monday focusing on monster, uncontrolled wildfires that have forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes, amid a first glimmer of hope that the spread of the largest blaze may have slowed. FRANCE 24’s James André reports. Source link

Shelters in France and Spain on Monday overflowed with exhausted locals and holidaymakers forced to flee blazes so massive some were forming their own mini weather systems, as authorities warned a new heatwave was set to descend on parts of the region. The fires tearing through forests in southwest France, around the prized wine-making region … Read more

German investigators on Sunday searched for a man who allegedly drove a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing one person and insulting many others, before allegedly stabbing additional people with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamist extremist terror attack. Source link

What you need to know One person was killed and three others suffered life-threatening injuries after a car plowed into a crowd at one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ Pride events. Police have identified a suspect linked to the ‘Islamic scene in Berlin’ No arrests have been made, but search operations have been launched and over … Read more

For a healthy young woman in South Africa, the greatest risk of contracting HIV may come from someone she wants to trust, but whom she cannot. He may not know about his partner’s HIV status, he may not always be able to insist that they use condoms, and he may have little control over whether … Read more