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More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says. "It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation," Borrell tells journalists. SOUNDBITE
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
The two gigantic fires that have been raging since 12 July in Gironde (south-west France) have burnt more than 19,000 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of 34,000 people, according to the sub-prefect of Arcachon, Ronan Léaustic. SOUNDBITE
More than 1,000 people evacuated from an area threatened by a violent forest fire wake up in a gymnasium in Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the Var department of France. The facility had already welcomed "fire survivors" during the 2017 fires. The prefecture specifies that among the "thousands" of evacuees are holidaymakers from six campsites in the region. IMAGES
Boats come and go at the beach in the resort city of Marmaris, in Turkey, as people are to be evacuated from the wildfires. The European Union sent help to Turkey and volunteers joined firefighters in battling a week of violent blazes that have killed eight people and put pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. IMAGES
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