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Firefighters in Portugal, Greece and Spain battled major wildfires on Sunday as heat, wind and dry ground strained emergency crews across southern Europe. The largest deployment focused on Portugal’s central Vouzela area. More than 1,200 firefighters worked there with nearly

A fast-moving wildfire in southern France has burned about 4,500 hectares in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, after spreading from the area around Trévillach. The fire began on Saturday evening in rough terrain west of Perpignan. Strong Tramontane winds, dry vegetation and

The Home Office and Border Force recorded 11,884 migrants reaching the UK in small boats across the English Channel from January to June 2026, down 41 percent from the first half of 2025. Authorities counted 19,982 arrivals in the same

A fast-moving wildfire forced nearly 3,000 people from campsites, homes and businesses in southern France after flames spread from Sainte-Marie-la-Mer to Canet-en-Roussillon near Perpignan. Firefighters deployed aircraft and ground crews on Thursday as strong wind pushed the blaze through a

EU countries returned 34,550 people to third countries in the first quarter of 2026, an 8.1% rise from a year earlier, Eurostat said. The figure covers non-EU citizens returned after receiving an order to leave. The same data showed 108,475

Six people were killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in Stade, a northern German town west of Hamburg, on Monday. Police said the attack happened at a mother-and-child residence on Dankersstrasse. Five victims died at the scene,

More than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since June 21 as a severe heatwave continues to expose millions to dangerous temperatures. The World Health Organization said the deaths were linked to high heat across the region, where

Europol said its latest mapping of organised crime found that 76% of the 821 criminal networks identified in 2024 no longer rank among the European Union’s most threatening groups. The update still lists 731 high-threat networks. It says 198 networks

Switzerland’s Beznau nuclear power station shut down both reactor units after high temperatures in the Aare River limited cooling at the site. The river reached about 25 degrees Celsius during a heatwave, a level that does not allow normal cooling

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he will resign from office and oversee a transfer of power by September, opening a new leadership process inside the governing Labour Party less than two years after its general election victory. Starmer said