Fast-moving wildfires devoured fields, forests and homes in France and Spain on Saturday, forcing nearly 300,000 people to evacuate or take shelter as hundreds of firefighters raced to stop the blazes’ approach on major cities like Madrid and Bordeaux.

The fires in Spain and France advanced quickly because of tinderbox conditions worsened by successive heat waves.

Also: the organisation behind huge student protests in India has called off its demonstrations after the country's education minister resigned; and BBC News has learned that police are investigating donations made to Reform UK by a company controlled by the party's deputy leader,

One person died and dozens were injured as fast-moving wildfires in France and Spain devastated tens of thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations.

On Friday, U.S. embassies in the Middle East alerted Americans in the region that options to leave could become more limited.

The United States and Iran traded more attacks across the Middle East after Tehran was said to have rejected a U.S. cease-fire proposal delivered by the leader of Iraq. American forces targeted Iranian military assets and facilities,

The U.S. military launched the 13th night of strikes Thursday against Iran, targeting key military and commercial sites as clashes continued to escalate over shipping routes. The attacks came after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea,

Trump has threatened to escalate attacks even further after nightly missile strikes for almost two weeks.

India’s education minister has resigned in a significant victory for young protesters whose spiraling demonstrations have presented a growing headache for the government of prime minister Narendra Modi.

A man holds a poster as he participates in a demonstration held in solidarity with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests held at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, which demand the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam paper leaks,

Dharmandra Pradhan's resignation hands a major victory to youth protesters who present one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

India’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after weeks of protests over alleged exam leaks and irregularities in the education system

Several people have been injured after a car drove into a crowd during Berlin’s famed LGBTQ+ parade, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital

Several people have been injured at a Berlin Pride event, police say, after reports that a vehicle drove into a crowd in the city centre. An intensive manhunt is currently under way, police say, as they urged people to avoid the area.

Several people have been injured at a Berlin LGBT event, police say, after reports that a vehicle drove into a crowd. An intensive manhunt is currently under way, police say, as they urged people to avoid the area.

Berlin police say a car drove into the Tiergarten park near the route of the Pride march, hitting several people.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks.

Most overt intervention so far from one of Moscow’s closest partners comes as Kyiv piles on pressure with drone attacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attend the 22nd Russia–Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum in Omsk, Russia,. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS OMSK,

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from one of Moscow’s closest partners.

It took a quarter-century of legislating, litigating and more to bring the Gordie Howe Bridge to fruition. Here's the timeline.

While Canada held its own event to celebrate the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, two workers who helped build the bridge recount the work behind the project.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is a major infrastructure project. The Free Press looks at the project by the numbers.

While Canada held its own event to celebrate the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, two men who worked on the bridge recount the project.