More than 10,000 evacuated in southwestern France

More than 10,000 people were evacuated overnight ​in southwestern France as a ‌rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 hectares of land west of the ​city of Bordeaux, officials ​said.

Wildfires have burnt more ⁠land in Europe already ​this year than the annual average ​in the past two decades, data shows, as the world’s fastest-warming continent […] ...