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A long queue of cars drive along the only road south to evacuate from Fort McMurray, after four neighborhoods of the city in Canada's major oil-producing region, were ordered evacuated as an out of control wildfire drew near and the skies filled with smoke. IMAGES
Firefighters scramble to contain a raging inferno northwest of Athens as Greece's emergency services continue to battle a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country that has left 20 dead. Civil protection ordered the evacuation of Ano Liosia in northwest Athens, a district of over 25,000 people, with people from the neighbouring town of Fyli rushing to flee the advancing flames. IMAGES
Firefighters battling a vast wildfire on Tenerife are facing another very difficult night after severe weather conditions worsened the blaze, displacing over 12,000 people on the Spanish holiday island, regional officials said. IMAGES
Footage released by Sudan's army shows a vehicle set on fire in Khartoum, in an attack it blames on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Air strikes and artillery exchanges rocked the Sudanese capital as paramilitaries and the regular army traded attacks on each other's bases. IMAGES
Russia's emergencies ministry releases footage of a fire raging through an office building in western Moscow, saying that over 120 people have been evacuated. The blaze covered an area of 1,000 square meters, the ministry says, adding that more than 340 people and around 100 pieces of equipment were battling the fire. IMAGES