Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday morning aided firefighters battling to contain the country’s biggest wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border.
Wildfires have ripped through Europe this summer after successive severe heatwaves, fuelled by climate change, have intensified drought and left vegetation tinder-dry. Fires have now burned 576,000 hectares (2,225 square miles) in Europe this year, data from the European Forest Fire Information System showed
