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Record heat and wildfires have turned summer holidays into nightmares and called into question the future of cherished tourist destinations.

The country’s record-breaking fire season has led tens of thousands of Indigenous people to flee their homes and ravaged forests they rely on for sustenance.

Light rain and cooler temperatures brought much-needed relief over the weekend to Alberta, where nearly 30,000 residents have been forced to evacuate.

Greek Coast Guard vessels were dispatched to rescue visitors and residents trapped in threatened seaside villages on the large island, a leading tourist destination. Some fled in their bathing suits.

The fiercest wildfires have hit only parts of a few islands. But the effects of climate change pose a far wider threat to Greece’s tourism industry.

Officials are warning of major destruction and loss of life after fast-moving fires swept through central Chile’s coastal hills.

As firefighters fought blazes kindled by tinder-dry conditions, the authorities sent tourists and residents on Rhodes to schools, gyms and boats moored at the port for shelter.

A referendum to set up an Indigenous advisory body in Parliament was envisioned as uniting the country. The opposite has happened.

The memorial will list the names of those freed in 1848, a design some say does more to glorify France for abolition than to atone for slavery itself.

Courts don’t make laws. Congress does.