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A Paris official has said she holds the US partially responsible for the record-breaking heatwave in France. The comments were made as part of a scathing rebuke to American tourists, immigrants and expats who have been criticising France for its lack of air conditioning across the country. Over the past week, the transatlantic discourse online has also been heating up, with some Americans – many living in desert and tropical climes in the southern US – mocking the French and Western Europeans for not being able to withstand temperatures to which they are accustomed to every year. “Dear American journalists...

A senior Paris official has blamed the United States in part for France's deadly heatwave. Audrey Pulvar, the city's deputy mayor for international relations, has raged at Americans mocking France's limited air conditioning - and claimed their greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. "Dear American journalists and social media 'influencers': for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room..." "As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France,...

No, an army of liberal arts college grads haven’t invaded France. But like the last time the country was invaded, a politician wants to torpedo freedom of speech. Paris’s deputy mayor has triggered outrage by demanding that white people be banned from discussing racism. No, really. Left-wing Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar, 49, has clear views on the topic. “(White people should) be asked to keep quiet and be silent spectators during discussions around racism attended by Black and ethnic minority people,” Pulvar said. She added: “People who suffer discrimination for the same reasons and in the same way feel the...