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“202 residents and some patients from a hospital had been evacuated.”
“some 90 fires had broken out on Wednesday in the country, with 81 brought under control.”
“up to 4°C of warming by the end of the century.”
“two firefighters had died on the island of Crete 'during an operation to contain a rural forest fire'.”
“The fires have forced 220,000 people from their homes and emptied some tourist hotspots, raising fears of a major blow to the region's vital tourism industry.”
“the chamber of commerce estimating that 39,000 businesses have been affected.”
“Business liquidations in Bordeaux and Libourne rose 37% year-on-year, according to the chamber.”
“Twenty-three French departments, including the wildfire-hit Landes and Gironde regions, will be placed on orange heatwave alert on Thursday, national weather service Météo-France said on Wednesday.”
“69 other departments will be on yellow alert.”
“Only four departments, in Brittany and the Manche region, will remain on green alert.”
“Eleventh-hour talks are under way between the European Union, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to secure a stop-gap loan of $4bn (£2.44bn) to pay for Ukraine’s gas needs.”
“The council on Monday published a calendar setting a first round of Haiti's presidential and legislative elections for December 13 with a runoff vote on February 21. It also set the publication of final results for March 7.”
“Haiti has not held elections since 2016.”
“Some 12% of Haiti's population live in makeshift camps or with host families.”
“CEP President Jacques Desrosiers told Reuters late last year that the council had evaluated hundreds of voting centres”
“The United Nations is facing a profound financial and confidence crisis, with US President Donald Trump's administration accusing it of spending recklessly, spreading itself too thin and failing to deliver satisfactory results.”
“On July 30, the 15 members of the Security Council are due to hold their first closed-door, anonymous vote on their preferences among the candidates.”
“He or she will take office on January 1, 2027.”
“This time around, everyone agrees that the race is incredibly important for the future of the UN, but the contest itself has been quite cautious,”
“The Strait of Hormuz are international waterways, and they continue to launch against the ships in that international waterway,”
“Kuwait's government said a desalination plant was attacked for the second day running, causing a fire, in what it called a direct strike on vital civilian infrastructure.”
“No. 2 on the U.S. bestseller list (Literary Hub, April 5, 2026), I Who Have Never Known Men has sold 501,677 copies across North America and is racing ahead with 515,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Altogether, 1,044,410 books have been s…”
“1,044,410 books have been sold worldwide, with 40 foreign rights deals and soon a film co-produced with Disney Studios.”
“The revival of I Who Have Never Known Men began in 2019 when Vintage Publishing republished the apocalyptic novel, which had achieved only limited success in the UK in 1997.”
“Jacqueline Harpman—winner of the 1996 Médicis Prize for Orlanda (jointly with Jean Rolin for L’Organisation)”
“A finalist for the Femina Prize, the book had attracted attention at the time”
“ILGA-Europe ranked Armenia 45th this year on its list of 49 countries – just four spots above Russia in last place.”
“While Yerevan’s figures put the number at around 100,000, Gevorkyan said many Russians subsequently left for other countries while between 35,000 and 55,000 stayed in Armenia.”
“A 2024 Stanford University publication estimated it at between 500,000 and 1 million, calling it Russia’s “largest wave of emigration since 1917”, during World War I.”
“In 2018, a mob of more than 30 people attacked nine members of the LGBTQ community in the village of Shurnukh in southeastern Armenia. Some of the people attacked were activists and employees of Pink Armenia, the country's largest LGBTQ or…”
“In 2023, Adriana, a 28-year-old trans woman, was brutally murdered at her home, and her Yerevan apartment was set on fire.”
“The reality TV star-turned-business mogul joined the billionaire’s club in 2021 as she appeared for the first time on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires, with SKIMS partly to thank.”
“The budget airline said the new system “is not ready” for the large volume of people travelling to Europe over the summer and urged EU governments to “suspend the rollout” of the system.”
““Passengers and families should not be used as guinea pigs for a half-baked passport control system that risks creating long queues, missed flights and unnecessary stress at airports this summer,” McMahon said.”
“This follows a cluster of aviation industry groups calling on the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, on 1 July to pull back on rolling out the new biometric system.”
“The groups described the situation as at a “critical point”, with schools across Europe set to break up for summer and families heading on their annual holidays.”
“Antibot4Navalny, a group of anonymous anti-Kremlin activists named after the late Russian opposition figure, detected a first campaign in June. This involved mocked-up versions of well-known media outlets, including AFP, popping up online …”
“The group detected a second campaign in July, which saw politicians accused of corruption and sex offences in posts purporting to come from leading German media such as public broadcasters ARD and Deutsche Welle. Two parties were not targe…”
“The narrative being spread from Russia into Germany, with a budget running into the millions, is then deliberately re-broadcast by the AfD in a targeted way.”
“The BfV domestic spy agency said it was aware of the campaign on social networks and had noted similarities with the Russian group.”
“Henrichmann acknowledged that Germans are 'a bit more cautious' when it comes to tackling state-backed disinformation, and called for the country's spies to be given stronger powers.”
“Seeking a reasonable understanding with another country does not mean you're working for it, Ulrich Siegmund, the party's top candidate in the region, told reporters.”
“The Guards' branch in the northwestern province of Zanjan said three of its members were killed in a US attack there.”
“Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Thursday that two oil tankers attempting to transit the strait with US support turned back after one of them caught fire.”
“Egypt had been spared until Wednesday, when an attack at a gas import hub sparked a fire that damaged two ships.”
“Two dead in shopping mall hit by Japan quake Three other people were in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest, public broadcaster NHK reported -- one at the mall and two others at a factory in Yatsushiro city where a smokestack collapsed.”
“The powerful tremor at 4:27 pm (0727 GMT) Tuesday afternoon -- measured at 7.1 magnitude by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) -- toppled buildings, sparked fires and reportedly killed one other person in a house collapse.”
“The US Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 6.8.”
“A succession of aftershocks followed, including one with a magnitude of 6.1 at 5:08 pm.”
“After nightfall, regional officials said 10 people were unaccounted for at the mall, NHK reported.”
“Kumamoto was hit by two devastating earthquakes in 2016 -- one of magnitude 6.5, followed two days later by one of magnitude 7.3 -- which killed 273 people and injured more than 2,800.”
“The archipelago, home to around 125 million people, typically experiences hundreds of jolts every year and accounts for about 18 percent of the world's earthquakes.”
“the waterway, which usually accounts for a quarter of the world’s maritime oil trade”
“oil prices breached highs of $120”
“France hustled 197,000 people from areas around Bordeaux – including vacation spots crowded this time of year – in what was "probably" the biggest peacetime evacuation the country has seen, its interior minister said.”
“In Spain, where 60,000 people were evacuated from villages west of Madrid, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the priority was "to save lives" as he visited the fire zone. Officials in Madrid had earlier given a higher estimate of around 70…”
“Fires currently raging across France have burned nearly 98,000 hectares (242,000 acres) – a "historic record", Nunez said.”
“In the southwest alone, the flames have consumed more than 32,000 hectares – three times the surface area of Paris – and destroyed at least 100 buildings, authorities said.”
“Two French firefighters died earlier this week near Bordeaux.”
“A separate wildfire near the eastern Spanish city of Valencia killed one person before firefighters brought it under control.”
“Le Provencal was originally built as a hotel 100 years ago, but stood derelict for 20 years before Caudwell spotted the building on a cycle ride along the coast – and for another 20 years after that.”
“Caudwell has committed to giving away 70 per cent of his wealth to charity, and thinks every billionaire in the world should do the same.”
“It is the early hours of the morning and 73-year-old Caudwell – a fitness enthusiast – is fresh from a two-hour cycle from Monaco, but these factors do not dim his energetic enthusiasm for Le Provencal.”
“One Direction gets shunted almost fully, save for a stylish orchestral rendition of two of their strongest tracks, Night Changes and History (see Louis Tomlinson’s version of the former at Radio 1’s Big Weekend earlier this summer for a re…”
“Harry Styles plays Wembley Stadium Friday 3 and Saturday 4 July; go to the official website”
“The set blends tracks from his four-album discography, opening with a heavy tilt towards nostalgia with singles Watermelon Sugar and Adore You within the opening act, although he begins the show with Are You Listening Yet?, the punk-disco …”
“On the French version of Hotels.com, searches for rooms in the Danish capital of Copenhagen have jumped by 246 percent since the first heatwave struck France in May.”
“Those for Dublin in Ireland have risen by 151 percent.”
“Oslo has seen booking growth of 154 percent year-over-year”
“Helsinki 124 percent”
“Our recent visitor surveys show that around one in five foreign tourists considers cooler summer temperatures to be one of the reasons for choosing Norway”
“he’s booked out ‘his table’ [...] for every day until his 100th birthday”
“he founded The Comedy Store in 1979”
“he told the Mail on Sunday in 1998”
“The international oil benchmark Brent crude surged past $100 a barrel for the first time since May, up 7%, while world leaders expressed alarm after Yemen's rebels hit oil tankers in the Red Sea.”
“wait times for UK nationals to go through the EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES) in the Italian capital have gone from 7 minutes to 20 minutes on average.”
“We are very worried about the summer,”
“sometimes what used to be a 10-minute queue... [now] takes over 30 minutes.”
“More than 110 million entries and exits have been recorded in the system, and over 44,000 entry refusals have been notified, including more than 1,100 concerning individuals posing a threat to internal security.”
“France ran a broad wealth tax, in its modern ISF form, from 1988 until 2018, when it was replaced by a narrower property-only levy. Eric Pichet’s study of the ISF estimated that it triggered roughly €200bn of capital flight and cost the Fr…”
“Norway increased its wealth tax at the top end in 2022. On Civita’s figures, 261 residents worth more than NOK10m left that year and another 254 the next, more than double the pre-hike rate.”
“Christine Blandhol’s Princeton research puts the long-run output loss at about 1.3 per cent.”
“Sunday Times Rich List figures show that 111 of Britain’s 350 richest people already live off the British mainland, and one in six names from the list two years ago has gone completely.”
“The fire erupted Tuesday in the Var region and spread at an unexpectedly fast pace, forcing some 400 people to evacuate and devouring 2,550 hectares (6,300 acres), an area roughly twice the size of London's Heathrow airport.”
“Nearly 1,000 firefighters and specialised water aircraft battled to contain the blaze in the region that lies along France's Mediterranean coast between the cities of Marseille and Nice.”
“More than 2,300 homes were without power, the prefecture said overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.”
“Nearly 40,000 hectares have burned in France since the start of the year, "far more than was burned during the whole of last year", according to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez.”
“Another major blaze burned 200 hectares and destroyed homes in the Var region between Sunday and Monday near Les Arcs-sur-Argens.”
“In the Alps, a lightning-sparked blaze that began five days ago had burned 130 hectares in a remote area of the Écrins mountain range.”
“Thanks to all those City PM readers – close to 2,000 of you – who entered our online reader survey last week.”
“Heathrow carries 70mpassengers per year”
“He is expected to say that an estuary airport – which is backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson – could be built in around 10 years”
“with the demand for semiconductors evident in its May trade surplus, with the products accounting for 40 per cent of total exports”
“at least nine ships had turned back from crossing the strait after the Houthi blockade announcement, including three that had taken on oil at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Yanbu terminal”
“four times the size of Paris”
“On July 25, David Avril and his wife Mary‑Line – the owners of the property – converted the facility into a refuge for the animal victims of the fires.”
“We managed to rescue about a hundred cats, dogs, horses – even a hedgehog and a squirrel”
“Dogs are kept three or four to a pen at the kennels instead of the typical two”
“Highs of 31 to 35C are expected in large parts of the country”
“Around one million European workers left the United Kingdom, many of them in vital jobs, particularly in healthcare.”
