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Added on the 17/08/2021 10:17:32 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
In Gonfaron, in France's southern Var region, firemen tackle blazes fanned by the mistral wind. More than 600 firefighters from the Var and neighbouring departments (Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Gard) as well as from the south-west are mobilized. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron checks Notre Dame's new spire and speaks with people in charge of the cathedral's restoration. exactly one year till it is scheduled to reopened on Dec 8th, 2024. The UNESCO-listed building was badly damaged by fire in 2019. IMAGES
Images of a fire at an industrial site in the port of La Rochelle, western France. According to the Charente-Maritime prefecture, the fire broke out at around 8.00 am on a cereal loading conveyor belt, which carries the grain to the top of the silos, at a height of 40 metres. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives at the site of a fire which claimed nine lives at a holiday home for people with mild mental disabilities. Two people are still missing near Colmar, in eastern France, in the deadliest fire in France for seven years. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives at Garges-lès-Gonesse in the Paris suburbs, where the town hall was set on fire during the night during urban violence that erupted after the death of Nahel, a teenager killed by police after refusing to stop for a speeding check. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).