Dozens of firefighters battled to tame wildfires fanned by strong winds on the Greek island of Chios in the northeastern Aegean Sea for a second day on Monday as authorities evacuated more villages.

A leading Belarusian opposition figure, freed from prison by president Alexander Lukashenko, said yesterday his wife would continue to lead the exiled movement, and urged supporters to keep fighting for change and the release of political prisoners.

Around 10,000 Russian soldiers are fighting in Russia&s Kursk region, about 90 sq km of which is controlled by Ukraine, Ukraine&s top military commander said.

The director of Italy&s Uffizi Galleries has sharply criticised social media-obsessed tourists after a visitor posing for a photograph tripped and gashed a 17th-century oil painting.