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Southern Europe burns as 2 firefighters die and France battles blaze 4 times the size of ParisLEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday — as two firefighters died in Greece and crews across southern Europe confronted a punishing mix of heat, drought and strong winds. The deaths on Crete brought a fatal new dimension to a wildfire emergency stretching from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean. At the peak of the evacuations, a third of a million people were driven from homes and vacation sites in France and Spain. In France’s Gironde region, the country’s biggest blaze had not spread during a calm night, authorities said.Iran launches renewed missile attacks as US and Saudis strik