At least one person has died, and more than 250,000 have been forced to flee their homes as wildfires ravage Western Europe in July, spreading across France, Spain, Greece, and the United Kingdom. Source link
Ege-Cap Ferret, France — French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to go back to their homes in southwest France, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner in their battle against the flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris. The … Read more
Fire crews in France and Spain continued to battle raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of more than 300,000 people in the two countries. Authorities in France’s Gironde region, where the wine region city of Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more localities as shifting winds and arid conditions complicated the … Read more
The U.N. refugee agency said forced displacement of people due to conflict or persecution fell in 2025 for the first time in a decade. But the agency warned in its annual report Thursday that 118 million people who had to flee their homes or nations is still alarmingly high. A look at the agency’s Global … Read more
“My house is demolished.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Imad Komeyha and his family spent 12 hours traveling from northern Lebanon back to Kfar Sir, a village in the south, only to find their house in ruins, laid to waste amid Israeli airstrikes. He had … Read more
Israel says the buffer zone is necessary to keep the threat of Hezbollah’s rockets away from its border, and its Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned that the hundreds of thousands of families displaced from the south will not be able to return to their homes, or what is left of them, until the safety … Read more
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IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Sandstorm hit camps housing displaced families in Gaza 00:27 UP NEXT Why Ali Larijani’s death is a bigger deal than it may seem 00:57 Snow piles up against door after Michigan blizzard 00:16 Israel says it killed Iran’s … Read more
A humanitarian crisis is looming in Lebanon where more than 750,000 people have been displaced in the 12 days since the U.S. and Israel began their war with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, figures released by the Lebanese government show. The pace of displacement was “unprecedented,” along with the “panic, also, that … Read more
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