GREECE: Advancing flames devoured forests and homes as dozens of wildfires raged across Greece today, leaving 20 people dead over the past three days, while major blazes also burned near the Turkish border in the north-west and on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.

Greece’s largest forest fire was burning out of control for the fifth day near the city of Alexandroupolis in the north-east, while another major blaze on the north-western fringe of Athens was torching homes and heading into Parnitha national park, one of the last green areas near the Greek capital.

ZIMBABWE: Polls opened in Zimbabwe today as President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeks a second and final term as the nation’s leader.

The main contest is expected to be between Mr Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. 

COLOMBIA: Peasant farmer leader Marcos Fidel Jimenez Bohorquez was murdered on Tuesday.

Denouncing the murder, the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace of Colombia said Mr Bohorquez “was kidnapped and later murdered on the road between Sancho Quemado and Mina Nueva, in the municipality of Segovia, Antioquia.”

SPAIN: The leader of Spain’s conservatives, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, will have the first chance to form a new government following last month’s inconclusive national election, the speaker of Spain’s parliament said on Tuesday.

Mr Feijoo’s Popular Party won 137 seats in the July 23 election but fell well short of the 176 seats needed for an absolute majority. If Mr Feijoo fails, then acting prime minister, the Socialist Party’s Pedro Sanchez, would most likely get his turn to stay in power for four more years.