Barcelona, July 5, 2026 (AFP) - Infernos devastate forests as Europe's temperatures rise again

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2026-07-05

Wildfires raged across southern Europe on Sunday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and prompting Tour de France officials to ban spectators from a stage of the race. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes that have devastated more than 19,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land -- an area more than twice the size of Manhattan -- across Portugal, Spain, France and Greece. And temperatures are on the rise again, predicted to re......

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