PARIS: France has requested assistance from the European Union to help it deal with a major wildfire near the country’s Atlantic coast, said President Emmanuel Macron on Friday. “The situation remains extremely tense with the fires hitting our country, particularly in Gironde,” wrote Macron on X. “France has requested the activation of the European Union’s civil protection mechanism.

France has been tackling a significant number of forest fires. Last week, President Emmanuel Macron said France had not faced this many outbreaks of fire across the country since…

SAUMOS: More than 10,000 people were evacuated overnight in southwestern France as a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 hectares of land west of the city of…