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Israel’s plans to open up tenders for the construction of some 1,200 settlement homes in a strategically important part of the occupied West Bank have sparked fresh condemnation by major Western powers

In our roundup of travel stories this week: why mosquitoes are getting better at outsmarting humans, the sun-kissed island known as the “Turkish Maldives,” plus the mysterious case of the missing Korean trash cans

One person killed and hundreds evacuated in Croatia as blazes also hit Germany, Greece and Spain

A forest fire in the south of France has revealed a cache of 400 historic shells and munitions in the village of Le Porge, according to local authorities

France has hit out at a Reform UK plan to return migrant boats using the Navy, saying the proposals would violate its sovereignty and breach international law

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux. The blaze in the Gironde region has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced 220,000 people to evacuate

France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chief

Coming days are ‘absolutely critical’ for firefighters before temperatures rise again this week, officials say

Former France midfielder Zinedine Zidane will take over as national team head coach, the French Football Federation posted on X on Tuesday

• ‘Most severe’ since World War II: French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was battling the “most severe” situation since World War II. As of early Tuesday, military engineers were working alongside firefighters to battle the blazes in the hard-hit Gironde region