Temperature records broken in France and red alerts issued in Italy as late summer heatwave continues in southern Europe
Firefighters in Greece have battled more than 200 blazes in the past 48 hours, officials say, as swaths of southern Europe bake in a late summer heatwave that has broken a number of all-time records and triggered red alerts across France and Italy.
Wildfires in Greece, which have killed 20 people in the past three days, have been raging out of control just north-west of Athens and in the far north-east. Authorities have warned that the heat and gale-force winds risk fuelling more and have urged extreme vigilance.
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