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Wildfires spread across Brazil's most populous state of Sao Paulo, prompting highest-level alerts in 30 cities and filling the capital's skies with smoke. IMAGES
Images of wildfires and heavy smoke on hillsides in Greece seen from Mount Pentelicus, between Athens and Nea Makri. Authorities ordered the evacuation of hospitals and homes near the capital as wildfires spread. IMAGES
A fire burns at night atop the Cerro El Cable mountain in Colombia's capital, as the country endures record temperatures. IMAGES
Firefighters rush to the scene after a new wildfire broke out in the region of Kavala in northeastern Greece, with the emergency services battling fresh blazes across the country. The very hot and dry conditions which increase the fire risk will persist until Friday, according to meteorologists. IMAGES
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE
Plumes of smoke rise above the now-evacuated fire-ravaged village of Kiotari on the Greek island of Rhodes as the blazes continue to ravage the island for a fifth consecutive day. Thousands of locals and tourists fled the Aegean island over the weekend in what authorities called the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation. IMAGES
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