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Paris sends 100 firefighters to battle southwest fires

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Around 100 Paris firefighters were being deployed Saturday to southwest France to help battle raging wildfires, the head of the Paris Fire Brigade told AFP.

Scotland declares 'major' wildfire in Cairngorms national park

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Scottish firefighters fought on Saturday against a wildfire burning through the Cairngorms national park in the north, with the authorities advising locals to e...

Japan records fifth 'cruelly hot day'

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Japan recorded its fifth consecutive "cruelly hot day" on Saturday, a new meteorological term devised this year to warn people of intense heat above 40C, as off...

Meta quits clean energy pledge amid gas-powered data center push

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Meta has abandoned a global pledge by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant confirmed Friday.

New York's noisy food carts go electric in clean air trial

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Walk around New York and you'll likely hear the chugging of petrol generators powering the city's tens of thousands of food carts. But not William Arevalo's.

Fires in Europe: latest developments

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Here are the main developments related to the wildfires raging in western Europe on Saturday:

Fires in Europe: latest developments

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Here are the main developments related to the wildfires raging in southern Europe on Saturday:

Untamed wildfires force over 160,000 to flee in France, Spain

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

France and Spain evacuated more than 160,000 people as out-of-control forest fires raged on Saturday near Madrid and Bordeaux, with the French army drafted in t...

Fires in Europe: latest developments

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Here are the main developments related to the wildfires raging in western Europe on Saturday:

'Difficult night' as France, Spain fires intensify again

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Powerful wildfires that have whipped up whirlwinds were scorching parts of France Saturday, with Spain also battling an inferno as more than 300,000 people acro...

Wildfires send nearly 260,000 fleeing in France and Spain

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Unchecked wildfires raging Saturday in France's southwest and near Spain's capital Madrid have forced nearly 260,000 people to flee and prompted Paris to deploy...

Devastating wildfires send 267,000 fleeing in France and Spain

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Unchecked wildfires raging Saturday in France's southwest and near Spain's capital Madrid have forced 267,000 people to flee and prompted Paris to deploy its mi...

Devastating wildfires send 267,000 fleeing in France and Spain

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Unchecked wildfires raging Saturday in France's southwest and near Spain's capital Madrid have forced 267,000 people to flee and prompted Paris to deploy its mi...

Fires in Europe: latest developments

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Here are the main developments related to the wildfires raging in Spain and France on Saturday:

Thousands sheltered in Bordeaux as France wildfires trigger exodus

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Amid rows of camp beds and stacks of food supplies at a makeshift shelter in Bordeaux, thousands of tourists and locals try to regain their composure after flee...

More than 250,000 have fled wildfires in France and Spain: authorities

Jul 25, 2026 (AFP)

Out-of-control wildfires raging in France and Spain have forced the evacuation of more than 250,000 people in total, authorities in both countries said on Satur...

Women sand miners toil stripped Cape Verde beach

Jul 24, 2026 (AFP)

On a rocky Cape Verde beach, Maria and Vania fill their buckets with black sand the moment that waves recede, transporting it on their heads to a stockpile wher...

In Senegal, a feverish ancestral hunt beckons the rain

Jul 24, 2026 (AFP)

Against a frenzy of drums, chanting and gunfire, a few hundred Serer men parade about in a trance-like state, brandishing the day's hunt -- jackals, monitor liz...

Fires in Europe: latest developments

Jul 24, 2026 (AFP)

Here are the main events related to the fires raging in Europe.

Thousands flee wildfires in southern Europe

Jul 24, 2026 (AFP)

Luggage-clad residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid on Friday as wildfires swept through par...