ATHENS — As Spain and France began to gain control over devastating wildfires that last week sparked one of their largest peacetime evacuations, Greece was battling multiple blazes on Sunday — and a sense that its odyssey is far from over. Two firefighters, a Greek and a Danish national, died after a pair of helicopters…
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Latest news bulletin | August 2nd, 2026 – Evening
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Rhine River hits record low as drought grips Germany
Record low water levels on Germany’s Rhine River left boats stranded in Cologne, as prolonged heat and drought pushed the country’s busiest waterway to its lowest level on record.
At least five dead and 41 missing after an Indonesian ferry caught fire at sea
A total of 225 people on the ferry were rescued, while some passengers jumped into the sea to escape the fire, according to Basarnas, Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency.
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Trump says he’s cancelling strikes on Iran as ‘perimeters of a deal’ agreed
On Friday, Trump had said he was “losing faith” in the prospect of a peace deal and threatened to hit Iran “very hard.”
UEFA declares to have ‘lost confidence’ in Infantino over ‘shabby, back room, opaque deal’
FIFA president Gianni Infantino came under increasing fire from continental governing bodies on Saturday despite scrapping a widely-derided plan to allow private investment in the World Cup.
Latest news bulletin | August 1st, 2026 – Evening
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Ceuta crisis: 22 EU leaders gang up against Spain’s Sánchez over his migration policy
Twenty-two EU leaders — including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — on Saturday took aim at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration policies for undermining the security of the bloc’s borders. The increasingly isolated Sánchez hit back that his EU partners were responding in a “selfish” and “unlawful” manner to…
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