2026-07-26
11 分钟The Economist.
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France's Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said wildfires have reached a level that has never been seen before.
Around 270,000 people have been evacuated in France and neighboring Spain as fires move 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 Janta Party, after a judge called unemployed youths 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.
A car plowed into a crowd at a gay pride event in Berlin, killing at least one person and injuring 16 others.
Police are hunting for the driver, whom they suspect has links to, quote, the Islamic scene.
Kai Wegner, the city's mayor, described the incident as an attack on our free and open society.
Germany has seen several attacks on crowds using vehicles in recent years.
Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced
that he will run in Brazil's presidential election in October.
Javier Malay and Benjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of Argentina and Israel, have endorsed his candidacy.
Bolsonaro's blood flows here, the senator said.
His father was sentenced to 27 years in prison for trying to overthrow Brazilian democracy.