France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between June 1 and July 2 ...

A blaze in southern France forced the closure of the Marseille airport, and weather agencies issued warnings for other parts ...

The heatwave in France significantly increased the number of deaths from drowning, with 429 swimming accidents resulting in 109 drownings between June 1 and July 2, the health authorities and the ...

Sixteen departments have been placed on red alert, the highest level of warning, and 68 on orange alert as France faces the ...

Paris was on red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and ...

Italy limited work outdoors, France shut schools and Turkey battled wildfires on Tuesday in a European heatwave that ...

France has issued heatwave warnings for half of all mainland counties, including 19 maximum "red alerts". RFI explains how the French system works and what the different alert levels mean in practice.

France Suffers In Historic Heatwave France has been blazing this week. It recorded its highest temperature ever on Friday, 113 degrees. But temperature records have been rising all over the ...

France braces for another heatwave this week as its national weather service revised the country's all-time record-high temperature to 46 degrees Celsius (115 degrees F), which was recorded last ...

Merde! Scorching temperatures in France’s southern region are stomping on the nation’s legendary wine industry, with the hot weather expected to squeeze output by up to 20%, experts warn.

As southern France emerges from months of searing heat, the country is scrambling to avert getting caught out by a winter cold snap again. Skip to content.

Large swaths of Europe, including France, sweltered over a 10-day heatwave ending July 2. Scientists said 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the extreme weather.