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A fire burns near the Greek village of Avgaria, where Greek, Serb and Slovak firefighters are conducting an operation to slow and stop the spread of the flames. IMAGES
Firefighters try to put out a blaze as regional authorities in Brazil declare a state of emergency amid "out of control fires" in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands. IMAGES
Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as officials said 10 people were feared dead in forest fires in the central Valparaiso region, where blazes are threatening hundreds of homes. 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
On the outskirts of the Greek capital of Athens, firefighting helicopters drop water on blazes as they struggle to tame deadly wildfires burning through the country for a sixth day. So far, 20 people have been killed in the blazes. IMAGES
Firefighting helicopters drop water on a fire on Greece's Mount Parnitha near Athens, in the largest forest adjoining the capital, threatening a national park for a second day. A fire department spokesman told state television ERT there was an "explosion of fire" in a forest ravine early on August 24 that renewed the threat to inhabited areas. IMAGES
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