PARIS: France, Spain and other western European nations on Saturday braced for a sweltering June weekend that is set to break records and sparked concern about forest fires and the effects of climate change.

Saturday's weather would represent a peak of a June heat wave that is in line with warnings from scientists that such phenomena would now hit earlier than usual because of climate change.

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