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Tens of thousands forced to flee as wildfires continue to rage on the Spanish island of Tenerife and in Canada’s North West Territories

Barbara Matic and Lara Cvjetko, the country’s two most decorated judo athletes, seeded 1 and 2 at the event, meeting in the final.

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people and left more than 100 wounded on Saturday, according to authorities. Reporting from Chernihiv, FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze says the attack came just as many residents were leaving church on the Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

The military-ruled state is known for sometimes violent religious and ethnic intolerance, as well as restrictions on freedom of press and speech.

A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris’s emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday.

A new study showed that artificial intelligence (AI) can estimate a healthy individual’s age from a chest radiograph.

William Lima and Jessica Pereira both fought hard to take home gold for their country at day one of the Judo tournament in Croatia.

Hundreds of firefighters have been responding to the blaze on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife as extreme weather brings a 40-degree heatwave to Switzerland

A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific killer of children.

A theatre festival in the Estonian border city of Narva is showcasing the contemporary issue of free speech with participating countries from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Ukraine.

Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) wants Poles to vote on four key topics, including migration, border security, the retirement age, and the privatisation of state companies.

A bloody rivalry between two drug gangs in Marseille on France’s Mediterranean coast has claimed the lives of dozens of people this year, targeted in brazen attacks sometimes carried out by teenagers, according to police.

An out-of-control wildfire on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife has burned thousands of acres and affected nearly 8,000 people who are either evacuated or confined, authorities said Thursday.

The Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group, his lawyer said Thursday.

The huge wildfire ravaging the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife that has burnt through more than 2,600 hectares of land is the “most complex” blaze to hit the Canary Islands in four decades, the regional government said Thursday.

The airport has urged passengers to arrive “no later” than 2.5 hours before their flight time today.

Favourites from Berlin and Cannes have been added to the list of this year’s European Film Awards (EFA).

French prosecutors on Wednesday charged four people with involuntary manslaughter over the deaths of at least six migrants whose boat sank in the English Channel last weekend, a judicial source told AFP.

Around 250 firefighters on Wednesday battled a wildfire raging “out of control” on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife that forced road closures and the evacuation of five villages, officials said.

Billed as one of Europe’s top music events, the Sziget Festival wrapped up in Hungary on Tuesday after six days of partying.

A prominent Bulgarian businessman was shot dead in broad daylight in Sofia.

A ‘powerful’ inferno with ‘huge potential’ to spread is raging on the Spanish holiday island.

‘I wish we had this in England.’

The German government approved a draft law Wednesday legalising the purchase and possession of cannabis for recreational use, with the health minister pushing back against criticism of the controversial plans.