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More than 1,000 people have been evacuated in the Spanish regions of Valencia (south-east) and Aragon (north-east) where forest fires have already burnt some 900 hectares, according to local authorities. Four hundred firefighters, rescue workers and military personnel, fifteen planes, seaplanes and helicopters worked to extinguish the flames, according to the Valencia rescue service. A nearby field hospital was set up and the Red Cross opened a reception centre for evacuees in a gymnasium in the town of Segorbe. Spain was hit last summer by some 500 fires that burned over 300,000 hectares of land, making it the most affected European country, according to the European Forest Fire Information System. IMAGES
Hundreds of people rally in Sydney for COP26 Global Day of Action. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Glasgow to hammer out how to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting temperature rises to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius. IMAGES
Mary Harris, mère célibataire et médecin urgentiste le jour, aide en parallèle ses patients en phase terminale à mourir et partir selon leurs propres termes. Sa double vie étant mise en péril, Mary va devoir se battre pour conserver son rôle d'ange de la mort.
The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
Indian rescue crews scour mud-caked tea plantations and villages with little hope of finding more survivors from successive landslides that killed around 200 people. Days of torrential monsoon rains have battered the southern coastal state of Kerala, with blocked roads into the Wayanad district disaster area complicating relief efforts since Tuesday 30 July. IMAGES
People in London take part in the "Restore Nature Now" protest, supported by Extinction Rebellion (XR), National Trust and WWF. British actress Emma Thompson and Nemonte Nenquimo, Indigenous activist and member of the Waorani Nation from the Amazonian region of Ecuador, marched together, holding a banner. IMAGES
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