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AP Top News at 4:34 a.m. EDT

Firefighters in France hold back vast wildfire as heat returns to test their gripLEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — Firefighters kept a vast wildfire in southwest France in check overnight into Tuesday, bringing flare-ups near Atlantic coast dunes under control in a crucial reprieve before returning heat and falling humidity threaten to test their hold on the blaze. The fire remained stabilized at 6 a.m. after a calm night and the burned area was unchanged at 420 square kilometers (162 square miles), the Gironde prefecture said. The emergency now stretches across southwestern Europe. Fires in France and Spain have forced roughly 330,000 people to evacuate, while Spain entered its fourth heat wave of the summer Tuesday with several blazes still out of control, including the largest ever recorde
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