An image captured by the European meteorological satellite Meteosat-11 shows the extensive dispersion of smoke from the wildfire that has been raging since Sunday afternoon in northeastern Attica.
This image, provided by NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), visualizes the location, extent, and impact of the wildfire that has been burning since Sunday afternoon in northeastern Attica.
Tubers in parts of Greece have failed to reach the desired size due to the drought.
Turkey reinstated access to Instagram on Saturday night, after more than a week of being blocked nationwide.
Setting out to prove that topping Paris isn’t mission impossible, Los Angeles rolled out a skydiving Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other stars on Sunday as it took over Olympic hosting duties from the French capital, which closed out its 2024 Games just as they started – with joy and panache.
A fast-moving wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds raged unabated closer to Athens on Monday, burning trees, houses and cars and forcing evacuations of hospitals and at least 11 towns and villages, Greek authorities said.
The state appears inconsistent with the commitments made to restore legality in Mykonos and as a result arbitrary constructions are continuing with impunity, according to a letter sent in May by the island’s Mayor Christos Veronis to the Ministry of the Interior, describing the “deadlock” with the municipality’s planning department.
A fire that erupted northeast of Athens on Sunday has spread to Mount Penteli, just north of the Greek capital, prompting the evacuation of several settlements.
The Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece issued a statement at the weekend about a song sung by a Turkish-Cypriot singer Isin Karaca during an event organized in the central square of Komotini in northwestern Greece on August 4 as an “unacceptable provocation” and a “direct insult,” as it references the destruction of Smyrna.
The smell of smoke and soot pervaded Athens, with the sky darkening as a wildfire burned northeast of the Greek capital on Sunday