More than 247,000 acres have been burned by wildfires raging across Greece over the last two weeks, data from European Forest Fire Information System shows.
Authorities say a water-bombing aircraft struggled to operate in Evia, Greece's second largest island, because of the large plumes of smoke blanketing the area. PM Mitsotakis said the citizens will be compensated for properties lost.
Thousands of residents and vacationers in areas where fires broke out days ago have fled by land and by sea as firefighters and volunteers battled through the night.
Raging wildfire surrounds a monastery and a dozen villages on Evia Island, just one of over 100 blazes burning in heatwave-hit country.
As the heat wave scorching the eastern Mediterranean intensified, temperatures reached 42 degrees Celsius in parts of the Greek capital.
Both paintings were stripped from their frames during a well-organised, overnight heist at the National Art Gallery in Athens on January 9, 2012.
Unions and opposition parties say government plans to overhaul labour laws undermine collective bargaining and formalise overtime exploitation by employers.
Greece says it will reject the majority of refugees coming via Turkey despite EU laws requiring European nations to share the responsibility of asylum seekers.
State TV broadcast an interview of journalist Roman Protasevich in which he said he called for anti-Lukashenko protests last year, a confession the opposition, UK and Germany say was "clearly under duress".
Ankara has started to work on concrete projects with a focus on action and cooperation with the Greek side, and the two countries agreed on 25 items in the list of areas of cooperation, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu says.
Five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe demand their EU partners share the burden more equitably, saying "we can no longer be punished for our geographical position."
Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu says his Greek counterpart is set to visit Turkey for talks on April 14 following a meeting of senior diplomats in Athens to ease long-standing tensions over Aegean and Mediterranean seas between the two NATO allies.
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