A new wildfire in western Spain near the Portuguese border has burned 11,000 hectares in 24 hours and forced 800 people to evacuate, officials said on Thursday.

More than 250,000 people were evacuated from their homes in France and another 116,000 were forced to flee the area around Madrid in Spain due to the devastating wildfires

Wildfires threatening areas near Madrid have stopped spreading and there are "almost no flames", Spanish authorities said Thursday as a new fire in western in Spain forced the…