Firefighters have kept a vast wildfire in southwest France from advancing overnight, extinguishing flare-ups near Atlantic coast dunes before returning heat and drier air threatens to test their hold on the blaze.

Dan Negrea accused France of "disingenuous grandstanding" and vowed American diplomats will keep walking out during French statements at the U.N.

Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires in Gironde.

"We will not be affording them the benefit of listening to their politicized drivel until they renounce their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric," said a U.S. official.

U.S. diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting Monday over a spat with the French delegation over U.S. human rights.

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By Yves Herman and Janis Laizans BORDEAUX, France, July 28 (Reuters) - France was bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year on Tuesday, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across the southwest piled pressure on crews battling a giant wildfire in the Bordeaux region.

U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration's human rights record