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On Tuesday, over 100 wildfires erupted in Greece, with the most destructive blazes on the Peloponnese and in Epirus, ...
Satellite data shows major forest fires across Greece have affected over 24,000 acres, with Chios and Achaia among the ...
Greece has seen a slight improvement in its wildfire situation, but officials on Thursday were not declaring the danger over.
Strong wildfires, stoked by fierce winds and dry conditions, continue to rage in several parts of Greece, forcing thousands ...
Livestock owners rallied to rescue their sheep and horses from raging wildfires in Greece.
The scale of this summer’s wildfires has prompted unprecedented requests for help from the European Union’s civil protection mechanism. Spain, for the first time, asked for firefighting aircraft from ...
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities sent new evacuation notifications for two areas near the main town of the eastern Aegean island of Chios Monday morning, as firefighters struggled to control a ...
Chios, with 50,000 residents and famous for its leading role in Greece’s huge shipping industry, inhabits a distinctly different Covid-19 universe from Brussels, the headquarters of the European ...
My day, however, is just beginning. It’s 11am in the sleepy village of Kampos, on the island of Chios, and I’m starting to feel hungry. At present, I’m the only guest at Perleas Mansion, a ...
Reporting from CHIOS, Greece — Eleven-month-old Fatima Moshfeq spent more than half her short life in makeshift shelters outside the walls of a Greek castle that decades ago provided sanctuary ...
Greece controls about 21 percent of the world’s shipping fleets, and Chios, along with the neighbouring island of Oinnousses, is home to some of the country’s most powerful, and tight-knit ...
Clothes hang on a fence adjacent to a camp for migrants on the island of Chios, Greece, April 5, 2016. Tyler Hicks—The New York Times/Redux ...