More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling wildfires that Portugal's Prime Minister has said are "raging across the country". Louis Montenegro named one firefighter who had died of "a sudden illness" while battling a blaze in Oliveira de Azeméis as João Silva.

Brazilian firefighters on Monday battled flames blazing through a nature reserve in the capital district of Brasilia, where an area the size of 3,000 football fields has already been destroyed.Three separate fires broke out over the weekend in the Brasilia National Park,