Wildfires in Greece burn for fifth day as another heatwave hits
Greece struggled to contain a wildfire west of Athens that burnt forestland for a fifth day on Friday as another heatwave hit the country.
Greece struggled to contain a wildfire west of Athens that burnt forestland for a fifth day on Friday as another heatwave hit the country.
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Eurobank won shareholder approval on Thursday to buy back the 1.4% stake in the group held by Greece’s bank bailout fund, a move that would end state participation in the country’s largest lender.
The Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry, in collaboration with the Ministries of Finance, Interior, and Labor, as well as the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (ADAE), has introduced a comprehensive package of thirteen measures aimed at providing support to households, businesses, and agricultural ventures affected by the recent wildfires.
Early Thursday afternoon, the temperature had hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in central Athens. And conditions will get worse during the weekend.
Derek Gatopoulos, a correspondent for the Associated Press who has been covering news in Greece for more than 25 years, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest updates on the wildfires Greece has been facing this week, and to look at how Greece and Athens are coping with the intense and prolonged heat wave.
The fire burning in western Attica and Viotia for a fourth consecutive day kept reviving on Thursday, leading to more evacuations and more destruction of property. Despite the mobilization of extra resources – at some point, 11 water-dropping airplanes and 11 helicopters, including four sent by France and Italy, were operating in the area –…
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