France's largest wildfire in decades now 'under control', interior minister says

French officials said Saturday that firefighters have stopped the spread of the country's largest wildfire in more than seventy years, though the blaze is still not fully under control, France 24 reports. It comes after weeks of wildfires across France tied to a series of deadly heatwaves that scientists link to human-made climate change.

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