Wildfires in the US and Europe, Russian strikes in Kyiv, beekeepers in Gaza and the European Aquatics Championships – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Ukraine and Russia accused each other of deadly attacks on Sunday

While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action

As France and Spain battle historic wildfires, comparisons to the second world war abound. “One of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II,” reports the Associated Press. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called the wildfires his country’s “most difficult situation since the second world war”.

The images crossing all our screens certainly feel war-like – emergency aircraft and black smoke fill the skies, frantic civilians seeking shelter, historic towns lying in ruins, charred forests and burned-out vehicles, exhausted and sweat-soaked emergency responders.

Ukrainian President says Ukraine has hit two more oil facilities deep inside Russia

The drone incident was framed as the latest in a series of hybrid attacks across Europe

Lithuania also fears Putin may be planning a ‘false flag’ strike on the Baltics

Kyiv says that Ukraine has been supplied with a third of the air defence missiles it was given in 2025

Kyiv said it does not target civilians but is ramping up long-range strikes

North Korean missiles are bigger than Russia’s

Warehouses in several parts of Ukraine under attack overnight as Russia pounds Kyiv and surrounding regions

Kyiv has not yet acknowledged killing Russian civilians on a Black Sea beach, but as it strikes deeper at Moscow, these tragedies will multiply – and that’s not the only worry, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Ukraine’s foreign minister branded the drone’s pilot as a ‘sadist’ and accused them of knowingly targeting a civilian

Soldier killed four people and injured three in apparent random rampage in Russian-occupied Crimea

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

Far beyond the fires raging across Europe and North America, the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very color of sunlight into something grimly unsettling.

An estimated 20,000 are said to have died in the extreme heat in Europe earlier this year, and heat is climate change’s quiet killer, compared with the dramatic violence of death by fire or flood. In eastern Washington, 600 homes have just burned down, and in both Europe and North America, firefighters have died in the effort to contain the climate-fueled firestorms.

Ukraine’s foreign minister said the attack formed part of a deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians.

Officials said 40 people were injured in the attack on a holiday resort

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable

For the European hard right and the White House, it seemed almost too good to be true: left-liberal Spain punished with a migration crisis of its own making.

The histrionics came right on cue. As thousands of mainly Moroccan citizens streamed into the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta at the tip of north Africa, Spain’s far-right party Vox decried a migrant “invasion”, blaming Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s regularisation and leftist politics. The Trump administration did the same. A senior Israeli diplomat goaded Madrid over its “colonial” territories while Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, called for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen area. Denmark and Finland backed Italy’s move and, by the weekend, 22 EU leaders had penned a letter pointing an implicit finger at Madrid over its presumed failure to “relentlessly combat illegal migration”.

More than 300 drones hit Russian cities and warehouses in overnight attacks, says its defence ministry

The war has upended normal life for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children, with many seeing their homes destroyed. The No Sirens camp, run by Hope for Ukraine, tells Alex Croft that they aim to help restore the joy of childhood that has been lost

Ukraine launched at least 635 drones at targets including a Wildberries warehouse, according to Russian officials

The explosion occurred near an upscale Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow's seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinkskaya Square

Trump's remarks come as Kyiv hits two more Wildberries warehouses and oil facilities in Russia

[L'article Au moins neuf personnes sont mortes lors d’une arrivée massive de migrants en Espagne a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

The attack marks the first suspected use of such a North Korean missile in the conflict for almost a year

It comes after Russia hit Ukraine with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones

Trump's remarks come as Kyiv hits two more Wildberries warehouses and oil facilities in Russia

Kyiv’s attack on an Iranian vessel is a move to bolster US support at a crucial juncture, experts tell Maryam Zakir-Hussain

At least 20 Wildberries warehouses have been attacked since July 18

Overnight attack started a fire at the Ryazan refinery, ramping up pressure on Moscow

Ukraine’s president said Russia had been planning the attack for several days

The drone attacks have deepened Russian fuel shortages