2026-07-26
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France's Prime Minister, Sébastien Le Corneau, said wildfires have reached a level that has never been seen before.
Around 270,000 people have been evacuated in France and neighbouring Spain,
as fires moved towards the city of Bordeaux and high winds complicated efforts to fight blazes outside Madrid.
France's armed forces gave assistance and Spain declared its first national emergency over a wildfire.
Protesters danced and chanted in the streets of Delhi after India's education minister resigned.
Led by a group called the Cockroach Junta Party.
After a judge called unemployed youth cockroaches,
they were angry about the leaking of important exam papers and the lack of jobs.
Few had expected the government to yield, but protest leaders said they would now end their demonstrations and go home.
Alexander Novak, Russia's deputy prime minister, said the government would maintain a ban on petrol export