PARIS (Reuters) -France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between ...

A blaze in southern France forced the closure of the Marseille airport, and weather agencies issued warnings for other parts ...

The heatwave in France significantly increased the number of deaths from drowning, with 429 swimming accidents resulting in 109 drownings between June 1 and July 2, the health authorities and the ...

The worst heat was felt in southern Europe, while punishing temperatures were forecast to reach 104 degrees Fahrenheit in ...

Researchers from European health institutes reported in 2023 that as many as 61,000 people may have died in Europe's ...

Sixteen departments have been placed on red alert, the highest level of warning, and 68 on orange alert as France faces the ...

Italy limited work outdoors, France shut schools and Turkey battled wildfires on Tuesday in a European heatwave that ...

Paris was on red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and ...

France has issued heatwave warnings for half of all mainland counties, including 19 maximum "red alerts". RFI explains how the French system works and what the different alert levels mean in practice.

As countries across Europe contend with a potentially lethal heatwave this week, one area in France has set a new record. On Thursday afternoon, the town of St-Jean-de-Minervois in southern France ...

France has been blazing this week. It recorded its highest temperature ever on Friday, 113 degrees. But temperature records have been rising all over the country, including in Deauville, Normandy.

The scorching temperature easily surpassed, by more than 3 degrees, the previous record of 111.4 degrees (44.1 Celsius) set in the southern town of Conqueyrac in France’s historic 2003 heat wave ...