The fire has spread some 8 sq km (800 hectares) since it started in a nature reserve on the north-east coast of the island late on Tuesday evening.
Local authorities have cut off access to the forest around the Mount Teide volcano, Spain’s highest peak, and say secondary fires have now broken out.
The main blaze is spreading through woodland and ravines in the Candelaria and Arafo areas, making it difficult for firefighters to tackle.
Photos show large flames engulfing parts of the forest, and thick plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.
Wildfires have raged in many parts of the world this summer, including in southern Europe, northern Africa, Canada, and Hawaii.
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Its members were allowed to move to Belarus as part of a deal to end a mutiny in Russia in June, in which its forces sought to march on Moscow.
According to the Single State Registry of Companies and Individual Entrepreneurs of Belarus, Wagner registered for “educational activities” at the village of Tsel in Osipovichi district, the same location as their new base.
Media reports say a real estate company, Concord Management and Consulting, was registered at the same address last month.
Concord is said to be 100% owned by a Russian company of the same name, whose director general is Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Last month the BBC verified the location of the camp at Tsel and the arrival of Wagner troops there, who were welcomed by Prigozhin.
The mutiny in June saw Wagner mercenaries seize military facilities in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don following tensions between its leadership and the Russian general staff over the conduct of the war in Ukraine.
Syria’s government has doubled public sector pay while at the same time cut fuel subsidies, as it tries to boost the war-torn country’s economy.
Syria has been devastated and more than half a million people have been killed by the civil war that erupted after President Bashar al-Assad cracked down violently on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011.
Presidential decrees issued early on Wednesday ordered a 100% increase in the salaries and pensions of civil servants, military personnel and government contractors - the first such rise since December 2021.
Prime Minister Hussein Arnous said last year that cutting fuel subsidies would ensure the poorest families benefited, reduce the budget deficit and help stabilise the Syrian pound.
They have also warned that the public sector pay rise is likely to further increase inflation and the Syrian pound’s depreciation, meaning that the economic benefit could be all but wiped out within months.
Officials have blamed the economic crisis and the hardship among its ordinary Syrians on strict US sanctions imposed in 2019, which targeted any foreign person or entity knowingly providing support to Mr Assad’s government.
Shane Thompson, the region’s environment minister, told a press conference on Wednesday that the fires had “taken another turn for the worse” and now represented a “real threat” to Yellowknife.
“Watching the flights sell out and the prices go up I just kind of got to a point where we should leave,” Ashley Maclellan, who fled with her baby to nearby Edmonton, told the CBC.
Resident Lisa Mundy described how her bumper had begun to melt, her windscreen had cracked and her car had filled with smoke as she and her husband left the town with their two children on Sunday.
Canada’s military has been co-ordinating airlift operations out of several communities in Northwest Territories’ South Slave Region that have been threatened by wildfires in recent days.
Airlift operations out of Yellowknife are set to begin on Thursday afternoon, the territory’s government said, with five flights scheduled to Calgary.
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Thousands of Muslims in a city in Pakistan have set fire to at least four churches and vandalised the homes of Christians over claims that two men desecrated the Quran, police say.
“The Pakistani society has experienced increased fragmentation, driven by widening economic disparities, leading to an upsurge in violence directed towards minority religious groups,” Mr Bashar said.
A local official told BBC Urdu that authorities received calls about protests and fires early Wednesday morning after reports of the two men allegedly desecrating the Quran, the holy book of Islam, circulated on social media.
Authorities said torn pages of the the sacred text with blasphemous content allegedly scribbled on them in red marker ink, were found near a Christian community.
“They broke the windows, doors and took out fridges, sofas, chairs and other household items to pile them up in front of the Church to be burnt,” he told AFP news agency.
Amir Mir, the information minister for Punjab province, condemned the alleged blasphemy and said in a statement that thousands of police had been sent to the area, with dozens of people detained.
Singapore police have seized about S$1bn ($735m; £578m) - including luxury homes, cars and watches - in one of its biggest anti-money laundering probes.
Gold bars, designer handbags, wine and S$23m in cash were among the items seized in the raids.
It added that 94 properties, including houses in some of the country’s most sought after areas, were seized, along with 50 vehicles.
Ten people, aged between 31 and 44, were arrested for alleged money laundering and forgery offences.
“We have zero tolerance for the use of Singapore as a safe haven for criminals,” said David Chew, director of the police’s Commercial Affairs Department, which investigates white-collar crime.
It added that it would take “firm action” against institutions which did not meet official anti-money laundering requirements.
For several hours the home in Arncliffe was cordoned off with tape warning of a toxic, nuclear or biological hazard inside.
Australian Border Force (ABF) confirmed officials had carried out an operation with the assistance of fire crews.
The material was discovered in a suitable and effective container with no release of radiation, the brigade added in a statement.
Photos from the scene showed the small brown-brick apartment building cut off from the road by red and yellow tape saying: “Contaminated area - do not enter - hot zone”.
Nemr Khamis, 60, added: "In the morning I heard the loud trucks and all that stuff, I looked out of the window and I saw the ambulance and the fire brigade.
Part of Australia’s department of home affairs, the AFB is responsible for offshore and onshore border enforcement, investigations, compliance, detention operations as well as customs services in the country.
A number of people are feared dead after a private jet crashed into a road while attempting to land in Malaysia.
Two motorists and eight people on board the plane were killed when it hit Guthrie Highway near Elmina, police said.
The plane, a Beechcraft Model 390, was travelling from Langkawi to Selangor and was attempting to land when it crashed.
Selangor police chief told Reuters news agency that the aircraft lost contact with the air traffic control tower two minutes before it was due to touch down at the city’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.
“There was no emergency call, the aircraft had been given clearance to land,” Hussein Omar Khan said.
“A total of six passengers and two flight crew were on board and their conditions have yet to be confirmed,” Norazman Mahmud, the chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM), said.
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