Ségolène Le Stradic

Companies will no longer be allowed to advertise goods and services through cold calls without previous consent from consumers.

To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.

Several migrants who crossed into Ceuta attributed their arrival to lax Moroccan border protocols. But Europe’s anti-immigrant blamed Spain’s migrant-friendly policies.

Under French rules, homeowners must clear vegetation within roughly 50 yards of their houses. In the forests affected by France’s worst fire in decades, that didn’t happen.

Firefighters have contained vast fires in both countries, but winds are high and temperatures rising. Spain’s prime minister said the next 12 hours would be “decisive.”

Officials said they had contained the spread of vast fires in both countries, but warned that rising temperatures and high winds meant the situation was still fluid.

Faced with unprecedented blazes, firefighters in both countries are using a brief window of opportunity to bring the flames under control before temperatures spike.

With firefighters stretched thin, volunteers put themselves at risk, using water tanks, hoses and tractors to hold back flames from villages and farms in southwestern France.

Daniel Siad, who was found dead on Monday, repeatedly introduced Jeffrey Epstein to young women, according to messages he exchanged with Mr. Epstein. Mr. Siad had denied wrongdoing.

The day after a court decided the far-right leader Marine Le Pen could run for office again, cheers and boos met her campaign kickoff in a rural stronghold.

First estimates published by the national health agency listed hundreds more deaths per day compared with the daily death rate in previous months.

The Paris police chief, Patrice Faure, said that alcohol restrictions were intended to ease pressure on the health services.

As temperatures pass record levels in France, the heat wave-related death toll continues to rise.

Crowds are filling the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty people drowned while swimming in other waterways.

Few schools in Britain or France have air-conditioning to keep children cool in soaring temperatures, leaving parents, teachers and officials divided about what to do.

Plus, why some tech companies are telling workers to cut back on A.I.

French politicians, including those on the far right, are embracing a Jewish Resistance fighter murdered by the Gestapo in 1944.