Firefighters on Tuesday found the burnt bodies of 18 people believed to have been migrants who had crossed the Turkish border into an area of northeastern Greece where wildfires have raged for days.
Mike Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration as director of the CIA and as secretary of state, will be the keynote speaker at the American Mediterranean Investment Forum, which will be held next month in Athens.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Bob Menendez, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have discussed Greek-American relations and developments in the wider region over lunch in Athens.
Migration Minister Dimitris Keridis said he learned “with great sadness of the deaths of at least 18 migrants in the fire in the Dadia forest.”
Two children were among the 18 people burned in a forest fire in the northeast of the country, Pavlos Pavlidis, coroner in the city of Alexandroupoli, has confirmed.
Albania’s prime minister on Tuesday responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent times” Europe’s unity is “larger than what divides us.”
A 43-year-old fan of Panathinaikos FC who had been detained in relation to the football violence in Nea Philadelphia on August 7 has been released after testifying before a prosecutor.
Over 40,000 hectares were destroyed in wildfires the three days from August 19 to 21, according to a report by the National Observatory of Athens.
Residents in Gennimata and Kanala in Ano Liosia, in the northwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, have been urged to evacuate to Liosia due to wildfires in the area, in a 112 alert.
Eighteen charred bodies have been found in a remote village in the north of the country, where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade has said. Media said the bodies found south of the village of Avantas, in the southern part of the Evros regional unit, were thought to be of migrants.