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Aerial images of the burnt areas in Gironde, where two fires have destroyed 20,800 hectares of forest over the past 10 days and led to the evacuation of over 36,000 people. IMAGES
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin pays tribute to "the firefighters, the military, the elected representatives, the police and the gendarmes who are fighting" against the forest fires in Gironde. The deputies in the National Assembly rise to applaud. SOUNDBITE
The two gigantic fires that have been raging since 12 July in Gironde (south-west France) have burnt more than 19,000 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of 34,000 people, according to the sub-prefect of Arcachon, Ronan Léaustic. SOUNDBITE
Des Canadair larguent de l'eau sur le feu de forêt à La-Teste-de-Buch, en Gironde. Deux incendies ravagent la région depuis sept jours et ont brûlé 14.000 hectares de végétation. IMAGES
A video released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine shows firefighters trying to extinguish fires in the Mykolaiv region, in southern Ukraine, after shelling hit residential buildings. IMAGES
Firefighters resume the search for possible other victims in the rubble of the buildings which burned in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the eastern Pyrenees region of southern France, killing eight people. They also secure the site. IMAGES
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