00:02Wildfires are continuing to burn across several parts of Europe, with firefighters battling
00:07major blazes in Belgium, France, Germany, Croatia and Greece amid persistent heat and
00:13dry conditions.
00:15A fire in Belgium's High Fence Nature Reserve more than doubled in size over 24 hours at
00:22the weekend to around 3,000 hectares, making it the largest in the country's recorded history.
00:28On Saturday afternoon, local media reported that 600 people had been asked to evacuate
00:35in Belgium's Liège province. Authorities said more than 250 firefighters and other emergency
00:42service workers were deployed on Saturday night. Meanwhile, across the border in Germany, emergency
00:48services made significant progress in fighting a fire in the Hürtgen Forest that forced around
00:542,000 people to evacuate on Friday. Residents were able to return home on Saturday evening,
01:01according to local German media. In Spain, firefighters continued to battle a massive blaze that has
01:08been ongoing for more than a week in Aragon's northern Huesca province. The flames are threatening
01:14a 1,000-year-old monastery. More than 290 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were intercepted
01:26on Saturday by Moroccan authorities near the border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, according
01:32to local media. One Moroccan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called the intervention
01:39a routine operation to prevent attempted irregular migration. One migrant from Sudan explains
01:46that he is looking for opportunity.
02:07On Wednesday, Moroccan authorities had announced another potential influx of migrants to Ceuta,
02:14following a new wave of online disinformation, saying the border would be open. This comes
02:20two weeks after around 72,000 people rushed into the tiny territory, although the vast majority of them
02:28have since been returned to Morocco.
02:34Twelve people have died and at least 10 were seriously injured when a Polish tour bus crashed
02:40in northeast Hungary in the early hours of Sunday. The accident took place on a motorway when the bus,
02:47which was transporting pilgrims back from Serbia to Poland, veered into a ditch and overturned on its side.
02:54Media quoted police as saying the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel.
02:59Interior Minister Gabel Posfaj announced that the man has been taken into custody.
03:05Five of those injured were fighting for their lives, a Polish diplomat told a press conference.
03:11According to disaster management authorities, there were 57 passengers and two drivers on the tour bus,
03:18which was headed towards Nirecaza. After receiving on-site treatment, the injured were transported to hospitals
03:25across four different cities. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medjar and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
03:31both expressed their condolences to the families of the victims.
03:39The death toll is rising from the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Indonesian island
03:45of Flores on Saturday. According to the latest report, the earthquake has left 53 people dead
03:51and dozens injured. Rescue teams continue to clear roads blocked by landslides and search for survivors
03:58inside hundreds of damaged houses and buildings. Three helicopters in a rescue boat are participating in the emergency operations.
04:08Meanwhile, approximately 5,000 people have been displaced as more than 1,300 homes and other buildings
04:14have sustained severe damage from the earthquake and nearly 1,000 aftershocks that followed.
04:20The initial 7.7 magnitude earthquake just 15 kilometers below the surface was the deadliest in the country since 2022.
04:31It was followed by a second earthquake elsewhere in Indonesia measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale
04:37according to the latest estimates.
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