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About 150 tractors are blocking access to the A6 motorway at Villabe, some 40 km (25 miles) south of Paris. Farmers all over France are intensifying their protest ahead of further government announcements due later today. IMAGES
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
Somalis evacuated from Sudan arrive in Mogadishu by plane, with countries scrambling to get their citizens out of the country rocked by clashes between army and paramilitaries. According to the Somalia's foreign minister Abshir Omar Huruse, around 150 of the country's citizens have returned so far. IMAGES
Turkish police forcibly intervene in a Pride march in Istanbul, detaining and loading into buses more than 150 demonstrators. The governor's office had banned the march around Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul but hundreds of protesters carrying rainbow flags press ahead with the rally in defiance of police. IMAGES
More than 150 people are missing and feared drowned in northwest Nigeria after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River. IMAGES N°9AU2ZJ