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 kilometres (50 miles) of France’s northwestern coast, Allied…
French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in northern Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters. The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with…
#Spain faces two “decisive” days to contains monster #wildfires blazing near #Madrid and #Valencia said the country’s interior minister, ahead of a new #heatwave that could complicate firefighting missions. Tens of thousands of people have already been forced to evacuate.
German police said a 21-year-old man with a record of Islamist extremist activity was shot dead on Sunday, a day after he allegedly drove a minivan into people near Berlin’s Pride celebrations, killing one person. The ramming attack happened in…
Locals and volunteers facing France’s worst wildfires in years are increasingly attempting to fight the blazes themselves before the arrival of overstretched, fatigued firefighters.
More than 42,000 hectares have now burned in Gironde, southwestern France as wildfires push closer to Bordeaux. Authorities say 240 homes have already been destroyed by the flames, which are now also threatening some of France’s most sensitive defence and…
Spanish authorities said they planned to start to allow some people evacuated from wildfires near Madrid to return on Monday, in a sign of progress in fighting some of the worst forest fires in the country’s history. FRANCE 24’s Sarah…
The fires tearing through forests in southwest France, around the region of Bordeaux, and in central Spain around the capital Madrid have been some of the worst in decades. Climate change which has brought successive heatwaves and a lack of…
Iran and the United States have paused their attacks, offering Gulf shipping and global oil markets a respite after weeks of escalating strikes around the Strait of Hormuz.
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…