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		<title>Farmers’ Fury: Protests Block Toulouse and Var Motorways Amid Growing Anger Over EU‑Mercosur Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[French Farmers Take to the Roads Agriculture in France is once again at boiling point.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Violent Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain on Sunday: Orange Warning extended to Four Departments by Météo France</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the same time, almost the entire country is on yellow alert due to thunderstorms]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hit by a Vehicle, Chris Froome, Four-Time Winner of the Tour, Airlifted and Hospitalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chris Froome, four-time winner of the Tour de France, was hit by a vehicle during]]></description>
		
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		<title>Violent thunderstorms this Thursday in France: the Var Remains on Orange Alert, dozens of Departments in Yellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes violent storms accompanied by hail and strong gusts of wind are still to be]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heatwave: Météo France Places 10 Departments on Orange Alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Temperatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Var]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Temperatures of 38 to 39°C were announced for this Monday 10th July 2023 along the]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coronavirus in the Var: The Department Strengthens its Health Restrictions</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2021/07/coronavirus-var-department-strengthens-health-restrictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EPIDEMIC: The incidence rate of the coronavirus in the Var department now stands at 103 against]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bad Weather: Alpes-Maritimes and the Var in Red Alert for &#8220;Rain and Floods&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2019/12/bad-weather-alpes-maritimes-var-red-alert-rain-floods/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meteo France has placed the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var in red alert for &#8220;rain and]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snow, Ice, Floods, Thunderstorms &#8230; 11 Departments of the East and South-East on Orange Alert</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2019/11/snow-ice-floods-thunderstorms-11-departments-east-south-east-orange-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All the Rhone Valley and the Côte d&#8217;Azur are placed on orange alert because of]]></description>
		
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		<title>Call for Vigilance against Cases of Local Transmission of Dengue and Zika in the Var</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2019/10/call-for-vigilance-against-cases-of-local-transmission-of-dengue-and-zika-in-the-var/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Health authorities on Tuesday called for vigilance after the report of two first cases of]]></description>
		
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		<title>He Carries his Unicorn Inflatable on the Roof of his Car, a Verbalised Motorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He was going to make himself incognito with his inflatable on a Var beach Friday,]]></description>
		
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