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Hamburg Pride underway with increased security a week after a fatal attack in Berlin
Aug 1, 2026 - World 
Hamburg's Pride parade, one of Germany's biggest, got underway Saturday with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin.
Hundreds of thousands line Amsterdam canals for the annual Pride boat parade
Aug 1, 2026 - World 
Hundreds of thousands of people lined Amsterdam's canals on Saturday to watch the city's canal boat parade, the highlight of an annual Pride festival that this year comes just a week after a deadly attack on a Pride event in Berlin.
Drought and heat grip Central Europe, record-low Danube River affects tourism and industry
Aug 1, 2026 - World 
As wildfires rage in France and Spain and a renewed heat wave is bearing down on Western Europe, a prolonged drought half a continent away is setting record low water levels on one of Europe's largest rivers, disrupting tourism and industry and confronting residents with the realities of climate change.
Europe’s wildfire crisis shifts as some 200,000 French return but new blazes force thousands to flee
Aug 1, 2026 - World 
Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation
August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland
Aug 1, 2026 - World 
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

