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A firefighter walks through a charred forest near Blagon, during wildfires, southwestern France, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

2 firefighting helicopters collide midair near Athens as Europe’s wildfire emergency rages

August 2, 2026 at 10:46 a.m.

Two Greek firefighting helicopters collided in midair Sunday while battling a wind-driven wildfire west of Athens, sending one aircraft crashing to the ground, footage showed.

Firefighters battle a blaze outside Lanton, during wildfires in southwestern France, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

France battles wildfire 4 times the size of Paris as soaring heat threatens new surge

July 29, 2026 at 8:03 a.m.

Firefighters in southwest France battled an uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris on Wednesday as temperatures were forecast to hit 104 F, threatening to turn a calm night...

A group hold a firehose and try to suppress a fire near Lacanau, as wildfires rage outside Bordeaux, France, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

France orders 4,000 more evacuated as fires displace a third of a million across southwest Europe

July 28, 2026 at 10:29 a.m.

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of...

Firefighters battle a wildfire in San Martin de Valdeiglesias, west of Madrid, Spain, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

What to know about the historic wildfires in France and Spain

July 27, 2026 at 2:40 p.m.

Heat waves and scant rainfall in Europe have contributed to historic wildfires in France and Spain that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in one...

Archaeological workers wearing hard hats dig 4 meters (13 feet) underground during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

June 2, 2026 at 7:12 p.m.

Among the objects found under Notre Dame Cathedral are a fourth-century coin stamped with the face of the Emperor Constantine, and shards of medieval pottery painted on the inside with...

In this undated image from the Free Ramy Shaath Facebook page, Ramy Shaath poses for a photo Jan. 2, 2015, in Cairo, Egypt. (Free Ramy Shaath Facebook page via AP, File)

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath says France is seeking to deport him

May 16, 2026 at 12:59 p.m.

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath said French authorities are seeking to deport him on the grounds that he is a threat to public security, accusing France of targeting him over his...

A barrier is set in front of the British cruise ship Ambition, as French authorities have ordered 1,700 passengers and crew to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak, in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Caroline Blumberg)

France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

May 13, 2026 at 4:11 p.m.

Over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship were ordered to remain on board after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness, French authorities said Wednesday.

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

May 13, 2026 at 6:16 a.m.

A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring...

French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting titled Madame Alphonse Daudet is on exhibit at the Musée d’Orsay museum’s new permanent gallery dedicated to so-called MNR artworks, pieces recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris, Monday, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France reckons with Nazi-looted art in a new Paris museum gallery

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

France is reckoning with one of the longest silences in its postwar memory: the looted, sold and lost art of the Nazi era — and the French hands that helped...

FILE – Laurence des Cars, director of Le Louvre museum, poses before a hearing at the Culture commission of the Senate, three days after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist, Oct. 22, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva, File)

Louvre Museum’s director resigns in wake of jewels heist in Paris

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s director. She had been under fire in the wake of a stunning and embarrassing heist of the...

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