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By&nbspLucy Davalou&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 15/08/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2•Updated 16:36 Europe is continuing to battle a series of devastating wildfires as the continent faces more sweltering conditions and worsening droughts, with thousands forced to flee their homes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In France, authorities said a further 100 residents and holidaymakers evacuated from around the town of Luglon in the southwestern Landes department on Saturday as a fire that broke out on Thursday continued to burn. In an update on Saturday morning, the Landes Prefecture said the blaze had burned through around 1,580 hectares so far and that it was “particularly active” to…

A wildfire on Croatia’s coast has left at least 10 people in intensive care and dozens more injured after fire crews battled overnight with “one of the worst” blazes in the country’s history, according to officials. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Around 2,000 had been evacuated from nearby villages as the fire ripped through the surrounding hills, damaging homes and destroying cars in the early hours of Friday. As access reopened mid-morning, the AFP news agency saw the blackened remains of several burnt out cars along roads near Omiš, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat…

Published on 13/08/2026 – 16:16 GMT+2•Updated 16:20 An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said the blast at Europe’s biggest port happened late on Thursday morning and that a crime scene has been set up to try to establish what caused it. The explosion happened at a refinery and fuel terminal run by Gunvor Energy in an industrial section of the vast port premises. Dutch broadcaster NOS said that a maintenance team had been working on a section of pipes there. Rotterdam…

Three Moroccan nationals who arrived in Ceuta during the recent mass crossing from Morocco have been arrested over their alleged involvement in sexual assault offences, against a backdrop of courts and law-enforcement agencies investigating several complaints filed since the end of July. The alleged victims are also migrants. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The arrests come after several underage Moroccan girls reported having been sexually assaulted after crossing the border and staying in the autonomous Spanish city. By 11 August, the National Police had recorded six complaints lodged by minors, the force confirmed to the maldita.es news portal. Both the complainants and the…

Hungarian lawmakers approved former supreme court chief András Baka as the country’s new president on Tuesday following the contested removal last month of the previous head of state as pro-EU conservative Prime Minister Péter Magyar pushes to loosen his predecessor’s lingering hold over state institutions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Parliament, where the ruling Tisza party holds a two-thirds majority, elected Baka, who served 17 years as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), with 140 votes in favour and six votes against. Tisza nominated 73-year-old Baka for the largely ceremonial role on Saturday. Magyar said Baka’s life served “as…

Published on 10/08/2026 – 16:52 GMT+2 The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) said on Monday it had thwarted a Russian intelligence operation aimed at discrediting Sweden and which involved an “agent” working in a foreign diplomatic mission in Sweden. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The counter-espionage agency said in a statement it had “gathered information on, and taken measures against, a Russian intelligence operation aiming at influencing Swedish decision-making and discrediting Sweden, NATO and the EU.” According to Säpo, the “intelligence operation has been planned and directed by the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR for some time.” It did not identify the diplomatic mission…

Published on 09/08/2026 – 14:45 GMT+2 The fire that broke out last Thursday in Niebla has forced the evacuation of the population centres of cities west of Sevilla: Berrocal, El Membrillo, El Pozuelo and Marigenta, according to Andalusia’s Forest Firefighting Service (INFOCA). The burnt area now exceeds 4,000 hectares, and around 400 people have been evacuated. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Overnight, 150 forest firefighters worked on the ground. Andalusia’s regional minister for the Presidency, Health and Emergencies, Antonio Sanz, said that the Level 2 fire remains extremely complex 48 hours after it started, due to constant wind shifts and the spread of…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he hopes to see an end to the war in Ukraine, but doubts it will happen soon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “If you ask me, and as a political veteran, I can tell you that I’m not sure about it, and I’m very much afraid that we’ll have another difficult winter,” Vučić said during a joint press briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is visiting Belgrade. “But I just hope, without any real facts behind these hopes, that this will end tomorrow,” he added. Zelenskyy arrived to Belgrade on Friday for his first official visit to…

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average.

Published on 06/08/2026 – 16:55 GMT+2 A record number of people have been referred to an anti-terrorism programme in England and Wales, the UK Home Office has announced. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Official data released on Thursday showed that from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, a total of 10,293 referrals were made to the government’s Prevent programme, up 39% compared to the year prior and marking the highest number of referrals over a 12-month period since records started in April 2015. The Prevent Scheme Prevent is an early intervention scheme designed to stop people turning to terrorism. According to the…