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- France faces fifth heat wave with temperatures near 40 °C as Météo-France placed 22 departments on an orange alert and warned fire danger will stay high.
- France’s health agency recorded 5,700 excess deaths in June and 2,800 in May-June from extreme heat.
- The United Kingdom issued a heat-health alert for England, forecasting 36 °C, while European Forest Fire Information System rated fire conditions “very extreme” southern Britain, north-western France and the Alps-Balkans.
