Firefighters battled to put out wildfires on Monday in three separate provinces in Turkey and near a tourist resort in Albania, stoked by strong winds after days of searing heat across the Mediterranean region.
A large-scale firefighting operation is underway near the Zografou area, close to the university campus, following a wildfire that broke out in low vegetation on Monday.
Satellite imagery analyzed by meteo.gr reveals that by Sunday, wildfires had burned over 10,000 acres across Attica, Evia, and Kythira.
The rebel Houthi group in Yemen has said it will target merchant ships belonging to any company that does business with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality, as part of what it described as the next phase of its operations against Israel.
Phone logs from the conversations of individuals involved in the farm subsidies scandal reveal that they were certainly aware of the illegality of their actions.
Turkey’s apparent success in securing the acquisition of 40 Eurofighter jets confirms a significant shift in how Ankara is viewed in many European capitals.
Greece will submit a proposal on Tuesday to join the European Union’s new SAFE financing mechanism, seeking at least €1.2 billion in low-interest loans to strengthen national defense and support its defense industry, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday.
A bus collided with a car on Acharnon Avenue, in the Patissia area of central Athens, on Monday. No injuries were reported.
In southern Evros, on Greece’s northeastern border, drought has exposed dry riverbeds but also the limits of local resilience.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has drawn a clear line between his tenure in government and that of former premier Kostas Karamanlis, in a move seen as recalibrating the power dynamics inside the ruling New Democracy party.