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Spain declares first national wildfire emergency as blazes rage, while France battles mass evacuations

News Desk24th July 202626th July 2026

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Spain has declared a national emergency for the first time in response to wildfires after a series of rapidly spreading blazes around Madrid and th...

Spain faces escalating wildfire crisis as Sánchez warns climate emergency cannot be ignored

News Desk22nd July 202624th July 2026

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Spain’s largest wildfire of the year has now burned more than 32,000 hectares in the central province of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha), becoming one of the biggest blazes...

Spain’s largest wildfire of 2026 spreads beyond 26,000 hectares as new heatwave fuels fears

News Desk20th July 202622nd July 2026

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Spain’s biggest wildfire of the year continued to burn out of control for a fifth consecutive day on Monday, destroying more than 26,000 hectares of...

More than 12,000 hectares destroyed as Aragón faces escalating wildfire crisis

News Desk17th July 202620th July 2026

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A wildfire that has been burning across northeastern Spain for the past two days has grown into one of the Aragón region’s largest and most...

Sánchez praises firefighters and calls for climate action as identification of wildfire victims begins

News Desk13th July 202620th July 2026

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the scene of one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires in recent history on Monday, calling for a national commitment to...

At least 12 dead as devastating wildfire tears through southern Spain during heatwave

News Desk10th July 202612th July 2026

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LATEST: Almeria wildfire stabilised as investigators work to identify victims and missing. A devastating wildfire that swept through a hamlet in southern Spain has killed...

Firefighters contain much of Costa Brava wildfire after tourists evacuated and thousands confined

News Desk3rd July 20266th July 2026

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Update: On Sunday the regional Catalan government lifted the lockdown that had confined 12,000 residents to their homes as firefighters contained the blaze that had...

Spain records over 1,000 heat-related deaths as first half of 2026 becomes hottest on record

News Desk2nd July 20266th July 2026

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Spain recorded more than 1,000 heat-related deaths in June as an intense early-summer heatwave swept across Europe, while the country experienced its hottest first six...

Heatwave crisis deepens across Europe with Spain among hardest hit

News Desk23rd June 202628th June 2026

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Spain remained at the centre of a severe European heatwave on Tuesday, with much of the country enduring temperatures above 40C and meteorologists warning that...

Pope Leo calls for respect for migrants, end to rearmament in historic speech to Spanish parliament

News Desk8th June 202615th June 2026

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Pope Leo XIV used the first papal address ever delivered to Spain’s parliament on Monday to warn that the world is facing a ‘profound spiritual...

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