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.
An emergency message was sent to the residents of Fyli, in west Attica, on Tuesday morning telling them to evacuate after a blaze broke out in the area earlier in the day, the fire brigade said.
The European Commission condemned on Tuesday an assault on UN peacekeepers by Turkish Cypriot security personnel inside the UN buffer zone dividing Cyprus last Friday.
The large wildfire in Aspropyrgos, western Greece, reached the perimeter of the Hellenic Air Force’s 112 Combat Wing at Elefsina Air Base earlier on Tuesday but was quickly stopped, Greek media reported.
The European Commission is making additional European aid available for Greece in the battle with the wildfires, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
As it had announced last week, the center-left PASOK party submitted a legislative proposal on Monday to prevent convicted former Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris from running in the upcoming local elections.
A massive wall of flames raced through forests toward a port city in northeastern Greece overnight, prompting authorities to evacuate another eight villages and a city hospital as firefighters battled dozens more wildfires across the country on Tuesday.
The use of antiviral medications significantly lowers the risk of hospitalization and death caused by Covid-19 among older patients, according to a Greek study.
Eleven leaders of Balkan countries including Greece meeting in Athens expressed their “unwavering support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, based on the values of democracy and rule of law” in the face of Russian aggression, on Monday night.
Greece’s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices was confirmed to have risen 3.5% year-on-year in July, up from 2.8% in June, by the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat.