{"id":1125785,"date":"2026-08-02T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1125785\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:36:30","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-european-wildfires-a-woolly-mammoth-and-a-migrant-influx-at-spains-ceuta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1125785\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in pictures: European wildfires, a woolly mammoth and a migrant influx at Spain’s Ceuta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    \n Fires burned across much of Europe, an earthquake in Japan killed dozens, record-low water levels in Bulgaria exposed the remains of a woolly mammoth, and tens of thousands sought to cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta before eventually returning home:\u00a0FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the week’s most striking images.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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    This photograph shows an area engulfed in flames during a wildfire near the village of Asomatos on the Greek island of Crete on July 30, 2026. \u00a9 Costas Metaxakis, AFP <\/p>\n

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    Migrants attempting to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta gather on a hilltop during clashes with Moroccan security forces near the town of Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, on July 31, 2026. \u00a9 Abdel Majid Bziouat, AFP <\/p>\n

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    Smoke rises over the city center of Kyiv after a Russian missile attack on August 1, 2026. \u00a9 Dan Bashakov, AP <\/p>\n

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    Former French international football player Zinedine Zidane during a press conference presenting him as the new head coach of France’s national football team on July 28, 2026. \u00a9 Lou Benoist, AFP <\/p>\n

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    This aerial view, taken from a Civil Security helicopter, shows firefighters beside a fire truck working to bring under control a fire ravaging a field near Ares, southwestern France, on July 28, 2026. \u00a9 Baz Ratner, AFP <\/p>\n

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    A powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan left 34 people dead on July 28, 2026, including several who perished in the destruction of the Aeon Mall Kumamoto shopping centre in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture. \u00a9 Yuichi Yamazaki, AFP <\/p>\n

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    This photograph shows an area ablaze during a forest fire near the village of Asomatos, on the Greek island of Crete, on July 30, 2026. Two firefighters died on Wednesday while battling the wildfire. \u00a9 Costas Metaxakis, AFP <\/p>\n

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    This handout photograph released on July 30, 2026 shows the remains of an ancient mammoth in Bulgaria as record-low water levels on the Danube River exposed parts of the riverbed near the village of Ryahovo. Specialists have so far identified a jaw bone, tusk fragments, part of a shoulder blade and a femur. Woolly mammoths co-existed with early humans, who hunted them for food and used their tusks and bones as tools. \u00a9 Handout photo, Rousse Regional Historical Museum\/Teodor Mechev via AFP <\/p>\n

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      \n Spain deploys military as hundreds cross into Ceuta from Morocco
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      \n More than 48,000 migrants return to Morocco after thousands cross border into Spain
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