Month in Pictures

RESIDENTS FLEE AS FIRES REACH ATHENS SUBURBS

Yorgos Papaioannou spent four hours using a garden hose to try to save his newly-built home from a blazing wildfire, until police patrolling his suburb north of Athens ordered him and his girlfriend to leave.

PERSEID METEOR SHOWER OVER KUKLICE

Two hundred stacked digital images of long exposures show Perseid meteors crossing the sky over the stone pillars in Kuklice, near the eastern city of Kratovo, Republic of North Macedonia.

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CARGO SHIP ‘CRIMSON POLARIS’ BREAKS IN TWO

A handout photo made available by Japan’s 2nd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters shows Panamanianflagged cargo ship ‘Crimson Polaris’ off Hachinohe port in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

FIREFIGHT INVOLVING WESTERN FORCES AT KABUL AIRPORT

An Afghan guard was killed in a firefight at Kabul airport when Afghan guards exchanged fire with unidentified gunmen which also involved U.S. and German soldiers.

MESSI GETS HERO’S WELCOME IN FRANCE

Six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi received a hero’s welcome after flying to France on Tuesday to join Paris Saint Germain (PSG) following his shock departure from Barcelona.

MIDNIGHT HAWKS IN ACTION AT THE LOTOS GDYNIA AEROBALTIC 2021

The Finnish Air Force ‘Midnight Hawks’ aerobatic team perform during the air show ‘Lotos Gdynia Aerobaltic 2021’ in Kosakowo, north Poland.

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U.N. CLIMATE REPORT URGES CUTS TO METHANE EMISSIONS

In four decades of climate negotiations, the world has focused intensely and exclusively on the most abundant climate-warming gas: carbon dioxide. A new report by the United Nations now recommends reduction in methane.

U.S. TO EXPAND EVACUATION FLIGHTS FROM KABUL

The U.S. State Department is expected to announce that its evacuation flights out of Kabul will now be able to land in Europe because of an overflow of people in Qatar.

SHARK SWIMS CLOSE TO A BEACH IN BENIDORM

A blue shark swims near of the coast in Poniente beach, in the touristic city of Benidorm, eastern Spain. Authorities closed the beach as they try to take the shark to deep sea.

HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN LANDING GEAR OF MILITARY FLIGHT FROM KABUL

The U.S. Air Force said that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding human remains that were found in the wheel well of one of its C-17s that flew out of Kabul amid the chaos of the Taliban taking over the Afghan capital.

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WILDFIRE BREAKS OUT EAST OF ROME

Residents were evacuated from small communities around 40 km east of Rome when a wildfire broke out as the Italian capital faced extraordinarily high temperatures.

SICILY RECORDS EUROPEAN RECORD TEMPERATURE OF 48.8°C

Temperatures reached 48.8°C in the province of Siracusa according to Sicily’s SIAS agency in what looks set to be a new European record.