Close to 100 wildfires raging across the Alberta region of Canada have forced more than 29,000 people to flee in what officials have called an “unprecedented situation” for the province.
Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes evacuated thousands of locals and tourists from villages in the southeast of the Aegean island, where wildfires were raging out of control for a fifth day. - An 'unprecedented situation' -
Local officials on Rhodes said on Saturday they had moved 30,000 people threatened by wildfires to safety including 2,000 who had to be ferried off beaches.