A quarter of a million people have fled their homes mostly in France and Spain from fires raging in southern Europe, as soldiers join battles to halt the blazes.

SAUMOS: More than 10,000 people were evacuated overnight in southwestern France as a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 hectares of land west of the city of…

Black smoke darkened the skies and crackling flames roared through pine trees in a forest in southwest France on Thursday as wildfires have forced more than 20,000 residents and…