Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes

According to The Guardian World, wildfires are tearing across southern Europe, forcing thousands of people from their homes and pushing officials to bar spectators from a stage of the Tour de France. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes that have already burned through nearly twenty thousand hectares across Portugal, Spain, France, and Greece. The fires follow a record-breaking early summer heatwave that has left the region, in the words of officials, a powder keg. Strong winds are expected to fan the flames further, and temperatures are forecast to climb again later this week.

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