BARCELONA: Firefighters in central Spain on Wednesday battled a wildfire that has burned over 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in one of the country’s largest blazes on record. The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a deadly blaze devastated a small expat community in southern Spain. That small but extremely virulent fire killed 13 people, including several foreigners, in one of the southern European country’s deadliest wildfires.

Two huge blazes in central and northeastern Spain have destroyed more than 30,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of almost 2,000 people as the country continues to…

Fire breaks out amid Spain's third heatwave of the summer, with temperatures forecast to rise above 40C.