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Germany widens Zelensky says North Korea to send up to 50,000 troops to Russia Spain turns back travellers from Italy as Ceuta row deepens Germany widens drone defences after sightings over Patriot base Pentagon presses arms makers for faster deliveries as interceptor stocks thin Israeli army seals off Christian village Taybeh after settler attacks Apple tests Chinese memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks Chinese model Kimi K3 escapes containment in test World's seas hit hottest July on record as El Niño strengthens Ottawa approves federal aid as 102 wildfires burn in British Columbia Nagasaki marks 81 years as Takaichi leaves non-nuclear pledge open Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing as China steers capital into AI BOJ debates faster rate hikes as weak yen lifts import costs US and Israel target Hezbollah's finances Pope Leo XIV calls for ceasefire and humanitarian corridors in Sudan Thai police say school shooter had viewed violent content online Costa Rican diplomat emerges as front-runner to lead the UN Australia widens curbs on Chinese rare-earth investors as US buys into miner US conditions could sink Saudi civil nuclear deal Vucic threatens to cut water to Kosovo's largest hydropower plant Turkey resumes Black Sea transits as shipowner prepares case against Ukraine Cheap Chinese open-weight models reshape the global AI market Myanmar's junta rejects ASEAN call to free Aung San Suu Kyi Sony and TSMC to invest $6.3bn in Kumamoto image-sensor plant North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says Alleged crime boss Kinahan charged in Dublin after extradition from Dubai Data-centre backlash spreads from British towns to the Texas oil patch Lake Mead falls to its lowest recorded level Chinese provinces push deeper into African agriculture and mining Turkish parliament to pass Kurdish settlement law before summer recess DR Congo hands 15 prisoners to rebel alliance under Doha framework Iran resumes public executions UN expert says no one should be deported to Haiti Study links early social media use to weaker school results California city takes network offline after cyberattack halts 911 dispatch China's Xuelong 2 begins first ice station survey in central Arctic Moody's warns AI race leaves banks dependent on tech suppliers Up to 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by US-Iran war Dollar near two-month low as US inflation data looms US and Israeli physicists hail China's glueball evidence as triumph FIFA rejects calls for Infantino to resign as Tebas declares his era over Biden's cancer is spreading and very painful, his son says

Symbolic image: British Columbia declares emergency as wildfire drives 20,000 from Okanagan Valley

Symbolic image

British Columbia declares emergency as wildfire drives 20,000 from Okanagan Valley

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A fast-moving wildfire near Okanagan Lake has forced more than 20,000 people from their homes in British Columbia. The province declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

The Bald Range fire near Okanagan Lake in southern British Columbia was first reported early on Friday evening, 7 August, and has since burned more than 10,000 hectares. Provincial premier David Eby said on Saturday that it remains "extremely active", that homes and property have been lost and that some residents were trapped as conditions changed. Air evacuations are under way for people cut off, and CTV News reported that more than 50 residents were flown out of the community of Faulder.

Province declares state of emergency

Emergency management minister Kelly Greene declared the provincial state of emergency as the fires grew, Reuters reported. Prime minister Mark Carney said on X that Ottawa stands ready to support the province and praised firefighters.

The deadly reach of the smoke

Smoke from blazes in northern Ontario turned Toronto's sky orange and reached the US east coast weeks earlier. The Guardian reports that landscape fire smoke kills 1.5 million people a year, according to a 2024 Lancet study, and that plumes from Canada's 2023 fires were linked to 82,000 early deaths in a study in Nature.

Other opinions

All available sources are Western: Reuters and The Telegraph foreground the evacuation, The Guardian and Le Monde the climate.