Thousands have been evacuated from homes and resorts in France and Spain as wildfires continue to tear through the southwest of Europe.

Firefighters battled flames in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and Turkey and were tamping down smoldering forests in southwest France where 224,000 people had been forced to flee.

Fires in France and Spain have forced roughly 330,000 people to evacuate. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average.

Wildfires are rampaging through vast areas of land in southwestern Europe, forcing France and Spain to evacuate more than 325,000 people from their homes. Some of the worst fires in France since World ...

France recorded around 1,000 additional deaths during the worst three days of a record-breaking European heatwave, turning a weather emergency into a public-health warning about aging populations, ...