ILLE-SUR-TET, France (AFP) — Wildfires across southern Europe forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted authorities to ban spectators from Monday’s Tour de France stage that was threatened by one inferno.
Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes that have devastated more than 50,000 acres of land — an area nearly three times the size of Manhattan — across Portugal, Spain, France, Greece and other countries.
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