Body found following the weekend’s storms in the Var - The body of a 77 year old man missing since Saturday in the Var during the weekend floods has been found. Police discovered the body within a kilometer from his home. The death toll from the weekend is now five with two people still missing in Cassis in the Bouches du Rhone and Saint Maximin in the Var.
Due to ongoing drought, the Var department has placed nearly 150 communes under water vigilance and four under official drought alert. ...
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Meteo France have placed the Var on a top-level red alert for forest fires today. Two other nearby departments, the Bouches-du-Rhone and the Vaucluse ...
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The Var department will be placed under red alert for wildfires on Wednesday the 16th of July, due to a "very high" risk, worsened by strong Mistral a...
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Commemorations took place yesterday in Nice to mark the anniversary of the attack in July 2016 in which 86 people lost their lives...
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French TV host and producer Thierry Ardisson has died in Paris at the age of 76 from liver cancer, his family announced. ...
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