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France’s largest peacetime evacuation ends — with new fires erupting elsewhere

Firefighters held a vast wildfire inside its perimeter in southwestern France on Saturday, allowing about 198,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation, even as renewed fires forced thousands from their homes elsewhere in France and Greece. In the Mediterranean Var, a fire thought to have stopped advancing raced across 10 […]

By Thomas Adamson, Nicolas Garriga and The Associated PressAugust 1, 2026

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