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A fire burns at night atop the Cerro El Cable mountain in Colombia's capital, as the country endures record temperatures. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
Images of smoke coming from the forest near La Teste-de-Buch seen from the peak of the Dune of Pilat, in Arcachon Bay, southwest France where two fires have already ravaged some 7,700 hectares since Tuesday. IMAGES
As the mercury edges towards the 40-degree mark in France, with record temperatures for the month of June expected to be broken, Parisians try to cool off in the shade of the trees on the banks of the Seine, in the centre of the capital. IMAGES
French health minister, Brigitte Bourguignon, visits the residents of a nursing home in Poitiers, as France's record pre-summer heatwave spreads across the country. IMAGES
An Argentine court allowed two French rugby players held for almost two months on rape charges, to return home pending the conclusion of their case. Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou -- both 21 -- were arrested in Buenos Aires two days after winning their first international caps against Argentina in Mendoza in early July. IMAGES
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