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A wildfire in France’s Provence region continued spreading on Saturday as overnight efforts successfully stopped the blazes from reaching the nearby towns of Correns and Montfort-sur-Argens. Some 1,300 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze, which has flared up again in the Gros Bessillon area, burning approximately 1,250 more hectares since Friday. By the end of the week, authorities said a total of 4,500 hectares had been burnt. Despite the difficulties, 2,500 people were still unable to return home. Meanwhile, authorities say France’s largest wildfire in 70 years has been brought under control near the southwestern city of Bordeaux.…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 15:35 GMT+2 The two figurines, discovered by a team from the University of Tübingen in the lower layers of the cave, are thought to have been made by people of the Aurignacian culture, who lived in the region during the Upper Palaeolithic. The better preserved of the two carvings depicts a bird at rest, possibly brooding. The other shows a bird with outstretched wings, although the left wing has broken off. Archaeologists found the two figurines only about a metre and a half apart. Miniature carvings made from mammoth ivory Both sculptures are so small they…

Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been confirmed dead in an avalanche accident in Pakistan, his climbing company Elite Expeditions said in a social media post on Saturday. The avalanche struck on Thursday, cutting off contact with the international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak in northern Pakistan. “It is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak,” Purja’s company Elite Expeditions said on social media. “We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive,” it added.…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:03 GMT+2 Almost all of the estimated 60,000 migrants who entered Spain’s Ceuta enclave have returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said on Saturday. “The situation has been almost entirely reversed,” Spain’s interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters. Under the watch of Spanish soldiers and police, the last remaining young migrants continued crossing back over the border to Morocco on Saturday morning. To cross into Ceuta, many swam around a small border barrier that juts out into the Mediterranean. At least 67 people died in the attempt, Grande-Marlaska said, including some who drowned and others who were…

Twenty-two EU leaders — including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — on Saturday took aim at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration policies for undermining the security of the bloc’s borders. The increasingly isolated Sánchez hit back that his EU partners were responding in a “selfish” and “unlawful” manner to the sudden influx of some 50,000 unauthorized migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa. While almost all those migrants have now returned to Morocco — and none crossed into the EU mainland — the 22 leaders raised “serious concern” over…

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Published on 01/08/2026 – 9:27 GMT+2 Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight killed at least nine people and injured more than 30 others in what city mayor Vitali Klitschko called a “horrific night” for the capital. According to Klitschko, Russia launched a wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv, causing damage to residential and non-residential buildings and sparking fires across five districts. “Clean-up operations are also underway at the premises of the municipal organisation ‘Kyivmedspetstrans,’ which was hit twice,” Klitschko said. Kyivmedspetstrans is a city agency that operates ambulances and specialised emergency medical transportation. Four of the organisation’s buildings were “partially destroyed”…

Italy caused a stir when it called to shut Spain out of the EU’s visa-free Schengen travel zone after the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco was overwhelmed this week by more than 60,000 migrant arrivals. This crisis is the largest surge of irregular arrivals ever recorded on a single day in EU territory. Although Ceuta is located in North Africa, this crisis has sparked vivid concerns among European governments. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday said Spain should be suspended from the Schengen area, as she described the images from Ceuta showing the migrants arriving as “shocking” and…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 10:48 GMT+2 Two tankers have reported coming under attack near the Strait of Hormuz, a British maritime agency said on Saturday, as tensions between Washington and Tehran over the region continue to build. According to UKMTO, one vessel said it had been “struck by an unknown projectile” while northeast off the coast of Lima, Oman, causing damage to the engine room. No injuries have been reported so far, per the agency. Around three hours later, UKMTO said it had received a report of a second incident, this time northeast of Khasab in Oman. “The Master of…

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