French President Emmanuel Macron says his country is in its toughest wildfire crisis since World War Two, as firefighters race to control the blazes that have incinerated homes and forests.
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The country is again braced for hotter temperatures, with the worst-affected Gironde region set to hit 37 degrees Celsius Wednesday, while 220,000 people have been evacuated by authorities.

The UN's climate chief Simon Stiell has warned climate-driven disasters are reaching 'nightmare proportions'.
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