More than 2,000 people have died in Spain and Portugal in recent weeks amid record-breaking temperatures, accompanied by massive wildfires that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. 

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.

A wildfire raged out of control on the outskirts of Athens, damaging houses and cars, the Fire Department said.

Wildfires edged towards mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico and engulfed an enclave of multi-million-dollar mansions in southern California.

Firefighters in New Mexico begged holdout residents of a mountain village to evacuate on Sunday, before the United States' largest active wildfire races up a valley that is their only way out.

Thousands of people told to flee the largest wildfire burning in the United States have chosen to stay and defend generational homes in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

Firefighters face strong winds and bone-dry conditions as they battle a rapidly growing wildfire in central Arizona.

Wildfires devastate forests and homes in Chila's Araucana region with firefighters battling to keep back blazes.

Firefighters have been deployed to combat forest fires in nine of Argentina's 23 provinces.

Three people are missing and feared dead after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado.