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Australia declared a state of disaster in Victoria as fast-moving bushfires destroyed homes and scorched vast tracts of forest during a searing heatwave, with authorities warning dangerous conditions persist even as some fronts ease. Temperatures surged past 40C across the southeast this week, and hot, shifting winds fanned some of the most perilous fire weather since the Black Summer of 2019-2020. One of the fiercest blazes tore through almost 150,000 hectares near Longwood, a region known for dense native forests. Premier…

Wildfires swept through thousands of hectares of bushland in Australia’s most-populous state on Tuesday, prompting highest-level evacuation alerts for communities on the central coast of New South Wales as a severe heatwave worsened conditions. The alert covered the Phegans Bay and Woy Woy area, about 45 kilometers north of Sydney, a region that forms part of a coastal population catchment of more than 350,000 people. Authorities urged residents to leave immediately where a safe path was available. "Leave now if the path…

Flames erupted across northern Algeria on Thursday as the country observed a national day of mourning for dozens of people killed in recent forest fires to cover the Mediterranean. The North African country has been…