Hautes-Alpes

A fire broke out on Aug. 20 in the southern Hautes-Alpes region of France, burning at least 140 hectares.

Another broke out on Aug. 20 in the southern Hautes-Alpes region of France, burning at least 140 hectares.

“In the Hautes-Alpes as elsewhere, Emmanuel Macron cannot act like nothing is happening,” the local office of France’s second-largest labor union, the Confédération Générale du Travail, said in a statement.

Macron’s trip to a town in the Hautes-Alpes region of southwest France that that has suffered water shortages gave him a chance to change the topic and briefly escape the daily criticism and protests triggered by his decision to revise the pension system and increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.

The local health authority in the Hautes-Alpes region, home to many ski resorts which attract British visitors, said the variant had also been discovered there.