A fierce forest fire broke out in the Banan District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Sunday. 

At least 26 people died and dozens of others were injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria.

Turkey is set to reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, justice minister said, after President Tayyip Erdogan raised the death penalty following wildfires earlier this week.

Spain, France and other western European nations on Saturday sweltered under a blistering June heatwave that has sparked forest fires and concerns that such early summer blasts of hot weather will now become the norm.

A deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit Cyprus in decades kills at least four people.

Forest fires ripped through Argentine Patagonia, leaving at least seven people injured and 15 more missing.

Nine people are killed and 10 hospitalized as a series of forest fires swept through parts of eastern Ukraine.