Wildfires rage in Greece and Turkey
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Turkey Faces a 'Very Risky Week' for Wildfires
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Greece and Turkey continue to battle major wildfires amid a severe heatwave. Temperatures reached 42.4C in central Greece at the weekend, with emergency services battling fires in the Peloponnese area of Athens and on the popular tourist islands of Kytheria and Crete.
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Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes and leaving a firefighter dead.
T urkey has inked a preliminary deal with Britain and Germany to acquire a fleet of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, triggering alarm bells amongst Ankara's rivals in the Middle East, including Israel,
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has declared emphatically that "Greece does not discuss sovereignty issues with Turkey" in relation to the "grey areas" claim in the Aegean.
Greece has invited Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli for talks on demarcating Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) in the Mediterranean Sea. This move, announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis,
The Met Office say that temperatures at popular holiday destinations will be widely 5-10°C above average due to a severe heatwave in the coming days