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epa10813390 A man looks at his mobile in a park in Valence, Southern France, 22 August 2023. Four departments, Drome, Ardeche, Rhone and Haute Loire, activated a red alert due to a heat wave. French meteorological services predict that these next few days, with more than half of the country on heat wave alert, there is a risk of breaking some temperature records in the Rhone valley, where the weekend already exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo