French president Emmanuel Macron has called a crisis meeting focusing on uncontrolled wildfires that have forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes. The move comes amid a first glimmer of hope that the spread of the largest blaze may have slowed. In the Gironde region of south-west France, where flames have burned an […]
Continue ReadingA Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the Nato member’s airspace that president Nicusor Dan called “inadmissible and intolerable”. Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine and Russian drones have repeatedly […]
Continue ReadingA raging wildfire in southwest France led to the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight on Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 in one region alone as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued overnight […]
Continue ReadingA raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight on Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more […]
Continue ReadingA car drove into a crowd during Berlin’s famed LGBT+ parade on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital hours after it had begun. Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. People stand on the street following the cancellation of […]
Continue ReadingBerlin police called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured. They did not say how many people had been injured. Police called on everyone in a post on X to leave the premises of the event […]
Continue ReadingLarge forest fires burned out of control in south-western France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 200,000 people from their homes. Dozens of firefighters were injured, authorities said, but no deaths were reported in either country. Some 141,000 fled homes in the Gironde and Landes departments in France, the Interior […]
Continue ReadingSarah Ferguson’s charity has been shut down following scrutiny of her links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sarah’s Trust which introduced philanthropists to good causes in need of funding was formally wound up last month after being first registered with the Charity Commission in 2018. The commission’s website lists the trust as being “removed”, […]
Continue ReadingSpain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]
Continue ReadingFlooding in India’s north-eastern state of Assam has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said. The river, one of Asia’s largest that originates in the Tibet region and flows about 560 miles through Assam, flooded villages, swept away homes and forced […]
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