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1. Exhausted crews battle wildfire as heat grips southwest France

   

   In Le Temple, a typically quiet country road lined on one side with with corn crops and the other, tight rows of pine forest, turned into a buzzing firefighting base Wednesday afternoon.

2. Dr. Anthony Fauci invokes 5th Amendment, declining to answer questions at Senate hearing

   

   Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3. Canadian film financier Jason Cloth faces fraud charges in U.S.

   

   Canadian film financier Jason Cloth is facing fraud charges in Illinois, where he's accused of defrauding clients out of more than $100 million US.

4. 4 women accuse actor Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct in BBC doc

   

   Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto is facing allegations of criminal sexual conduct, with four women telling BBC in a new documentary that the offences took place when they were teenagers. In a statement released to multiple outlets on Wednesday, Leto says the claims made in the documentary are "absolutely and categorically false."

5. A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires

   

   Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically changed part of the landscape 200 years ago.