00:00More than 320,000 people have now been evacuated across parts of France and Spain as wildfires
00:08continue to ravage southern Europe. In southwestern France, more than 250,000 people have been forced
00:16to flee their homes after evacuation orders were issued in an additional five villages
00:21around Bordeaux on Saturday night, marking France's biggest ever peacetime evacuations.
00:28According to the Gironde Prefecture, the fire had burned around 32,700 hectares as of Saturday evening.
00:36Meanwhile, in Spain, firefighters on Sunday battled a new front of fires near the coastal city of Valencia,
00:43where at least 15,000 people were evacuated. More than 100,000 people have already been evacuated from
00:51Madrid and Castillon, where Portuguese, Italian and other firefighting planes are helping Spanish
00:57teams on the ground. Some 11 planes and helicopters from the EU's rescue fleet had been deployed to
01:03both countries after Paris and Madrid activated the EU's civic protection mechanism, Commission
01:09President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday. German authorities on Sunday named and issued a wanted
01:19notice for a fugitive suspect in the car ramming near Berlin's Pride Festival that left one person dead
01:26and injured at least 29 others. Police and prosecutors asked for help in finding the 21-year-old whom they
01:34identified as Abdul B. According to initial information, a vehicle drove into the crowd
01:40in the Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m. on Saturday, then collided with a tree before the suspect managed to
01:47flee.
01:48Authorities say several people were stabbed and three of those injured remain in a life-threatening
02:03condition. The Berlin Pride Parade, one of Europe's largest LGBTQ plus celebrations, was cancelled after
02:14the incident. The closing party at the Pride Festival known as Christopher Street Day was ongoing nearby at
02:22the time of the attack. Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least eight people and injured dozens
02:32more over the last 24 hours. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said one person was killed
02:39and nine were wounded in a drone attack on Kharkiv and another person was killed in Zaporizhia. According to
02:47Zelensky, all necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site, adding that residential
02:53buildings had been hit. Local media in Ukraine also reported Russian forces attacked the city of
02:59Dnipro on Sunday morning, setting the only store in the city on fire. The latest Russian attacks come
03:07as Ukraine's successful drone attacks have stalled Moscow's army advances in an expanded campaign by
03:13Kyiv that has seen it hit high-profile targets inside Russia, causing fuel shortages and piling pressure
03:21on Vladimir Putin. On Saturday, Ukrainian attacks on holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied
03:27Zaporizhia region killed 12 people, according to Moscow-installed officials.
03:38Greece's Mount Olympus and France's D-Day beaches were among several sites added to the World Heritage
03:44list on Sunday. The World Heritage inscription of Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the 12 Olympian
03:52gods, rewarded a 12-year effort by Greece to secure recognition for its tallest mountain as a mixed cultural
03:58and natural heritage site. Rising almost 3,000 meters from a base near sea level, the mountain
04:05was believed to be the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, while also harboring rich biodiversity.
04:11The French designation covers the five Normandy landing beaches – Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold and
04:18Juneau – where more than 150,000 Allied troops came ashore on June 6, 1944, to liberate Western Europe from
04:25Nazi occupation during World War II. The sites contain extensive remnants, from German fortifications
04:33and bomb-scarled landscapes, to Allied harbor structures and sunken vessels. Also inscribed were
04:39Italy's historic theaters of the Marche region, the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara,
04:45and South Sudan's Boma-Badinghilo migratory landscape, among others.
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