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  1. New evacuations ordered in southwestern France wildfires as heat wave conditions return

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    French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.

  2. Major earthquake hits part of southern Japan

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    An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, stopping rail services and briefly triggering warnings for tsunamis and aftershocks.

  3. As Trump threatens wildfire smoke tariffs, Canada looks to reduce fire risk

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  4. Police believe at least 3 suspects involved in deadly Seattle festival shooting

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    Police now say there were at least three suspects involved in a food festival shooting near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend, and that one of them was among those killed in the violence.

  5. Huge fires in France and Spain force evacuation of 330,000 as another heat wave looms

    A person in a soot-stained yellow uniform stands with their mask down and their goggles up.

    Fire crews and planes are wrestling to bring a monster wildfire in southwest France under control before a forecast jump in temperatures complicates the firefighting effort.