A further 55,000 people have been evacuated from six towns in France, as wildfires which have caused devastation across the country pick up pace.

French authorities ordered on Friday the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourism hotspot on the Atlantic Coast, sending boats ⁠to remove people from an area threatened by a major wildf...

Carlos Novillo, the Madrid regional government's emergency management chief, said Friday the wildfire near the capital was "at its peak and is currently beyond the capacity of firefighters to contain"...