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Central Russia battles 'extreme' wildfires fuelled by heatwave

In Russia’s coldest region of Yakutia, fires have burned through an area larger than Portugal, with 50 forest fires currently ablaze.

Thousands evacuated in France as fierce wildfire rages near Saint-Tropez

France dispatches hundreds of firefighters to battle a wildfire that broke out in Var in the south, where several campsites have been evacuated and people asked to avoid congesting the roads.

Raging wildfires in Algeria claims lives

Photographs posted on social media show huge walls of flame and billowing clouds of smoke towering over villages in the forested hills in Algeria, becoming the latest Mediterranean country to be hit by wildfires.

'It's huge': Fire rages on Evia island on sixth day of Greek wildfires

Blaze on Evia ripped through thousands of hectares (acres) of pristine forest across its northern part, forcing the evacuation of dozens of villages.

Huge California wildfire grows, but weather helps firefighters

The Dixie Fire has ravaged 446,723 acres in four counties, up from the previous day's 434,813. That area is larger than Los Angeles, and has surpassed the sweep of the vast Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon.

Thousands evacuated in Greece as fires continue to rage

Thousands of residents and vacationers in areas where fires broke out days ago have fled by land and by sea as firefighters and volunteers battled through the night.

California’s Dixie Fire decimates mountain town of Greenville

The Dixie Fire is the sixth biggest in the state’s history and is still spreading due to hot, bone-dry, gusty weather.

California’s deadly Dixie wildfire destroys businesses and homes

Officials in northern California warn residents of two communities in the path of the raging blaze to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onwards.

Turkey evacuates residents, empties power plant as fire rages

Thermal power plant on Aegean Sea and residential areas emptied as deadly wildfire ravaging Turkey for the past week reaches its outer edge.

Greece 'waging battle of titans' as flames destroy 150 homes

Raging wildfire surrounds a monastery and a dozen villages on Evia Island, just one of over 100 blazes burning in heatwave-hit country.

Firefighters in Turkey tirelessly battle forest fires amid heatwave

Turkish firefighters, locals and volunteers work at full pace to bring the blazes under control in four southern provinces, with at least eight people killed since the wildfires started on July 28.

Battle against wildfires in Turkey's drought-hit areas continues

At least eight people have died as efforts continue to put out forest fires across several parts of the country. Around 10,000 people evacuated in Mugla province.