Drought

Malawi counts votes after presidential election amid economic crisis

Incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and and his predecessor Peter Mutharika are seeking to win the high-stakes election.

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Malawi presidential elections: Who is running and what’s at stake?

The small African country is still reeling from the fallout of last year’s region-wide drought that devastated harvests.

Drought in Iraq unearths more than 2,000 years old tombs

The newly discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period.

Iraq is facing a water crisis, hit by one of its worst droughts in century

Experts warn that the water crisis in the country’s south will worsen, unless there is urgent government action.

Firefighting efforts continue in Spain's Galicia.

Portuguese firefighters and Spanish military personnel work together to battle a forest fire in the parish of Bouses, Galicia, Spain [Pedro Pascual/Anadolu]

Thousands of firefighters, backed by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft, battled more than 20 wildfires raging across western Spain. [Pedro Pascual/Anadolu]

More than 343,000 hectares (848,000 acres) of land have been destroyed this year in Spain. [Pedro Pascual/Anadolu]

Houses ravaged by an ongoing wildfire in Cernego, Ourense province, Spain. [Brais Lorenzo/EPA]

Firefighters continue their efforts to extinguish the forest fire in Queirugas, Spain. [Pedro Pascual/Anadolu]

Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burnt

Trees burn at Malhada do Rei, Pampilhosa da Serra, Portugal. [Paulo Novais/EPA]

A helicopter drops water on the forest fire at Malhada do Rei. [Paulo Novaid/EPA]

Firefighters battle a forest fire that began five days ago near Aldeia de Piodao, in Arganil, and spread to Silvares, in Fundao, Portugal. [Miguel Pereira Da Silva/EPA]

In Portugal, about 2,000 firefighters were deployed across the north and centre of the country on Monday, with about half of them concentrated in the town of Arganil. [Paulo Novaid/EPA]