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Forest fires in France begin amid heatwave: 400 hectares burned due to BBQ on trailer
Official daily ‘forest-fire risk’ map is being published again for summer
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French weekly weather forecast June 30 - July 4: heatwave to continue then storms
84 departments are on heightened alert for the start of the week
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Map: the 151 areas of France chosen to get more doctors from September
Areas include parts of Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Creuse, Allier and Nièvre
French MPs want law change on gay blood donors
MPs are looking at changing the law on giving blood to align the rules for gay and bi people with those for straight people.

Heterosexuals must not have had sex that put them at increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases in the last four months (more than one partner, unprotected sex with a new partner, sex with someone with an STD or who had unÂproÂtected sex with someone else or whose sexual behaviour is unknown to you). HomoÂsexuals must declare they have not had sex for a year.
The proposal has support but still needs to go for a full vote.
Campaign group SOS HomoÂphobie said it would end a “stigmatisation†of those who have same-sex relations and that it should be behaviour – not orientation – that matters.