"We will not be affording them the benefit of listening to their politicized drivel until they renounce their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric," said a U.S. official.

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said the wildfire situation is the "toughest since the Second World War."

A mother from Tennessee slept through wildfire evacuation operations in southwest France, and now she's trapped with her kids as the blaze threatens the city Bordeaux.

Dan Negrea accused France of "disingenuous grandstanding" and vowed American diplomats will keep walking out during French statements at the U.N.

By Yves Herman and Janis Laizans BORDEAUX, France, July 28 (Reuters) - France was bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year on Tuesday, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across the southwest piled pressure on crews battling a giant wildfire in the Bordeaux region.

Zinedine Zidane had been waiting for this moment a very long time. Absent from management since he left Real Madrid in May 2021, Zidane has rarely spoken to journalists or made me