A new fire broke out on Friday near the Greek capital, Athens, as the country was put on high alert for wildfires due to ...

Greece’s Civil Protection has warned of Very High Fire Risk – Category 4 – in several parts of the country on July 3 and 4, 2025. Fire Risk Forecast Maps are issued by the General Secretariat of Civil ...

Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heat wave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 ...

A deadly “heat dome” has descended on Europe, with one tourist dead, wildfires melting roads in Italy, and temperatures in ...

A woman has been arrested by Greek police in connection with a series of wildfires on the Greek island of Chios. Blazes broke out on Sunday and tore through 10,000 acres of mainly bush and pasture ...

She’d been smoking,” a Greek official said of a Georgian woman who was arrested after a blaze tore through 11,000 acres of Chios this week.

The sunny port of Chios, with its quaint medieval villages and famous mastiha resin, has been a picture‑perfect Greek island escape — until the skies turned ...

Chios is in the midst of the tourist season and authorities also want to prevent the fires reaching areas famous for producing mastiha, a natural resin harvested from mastic trees.

Fierce wildfires have been raging on the Greek island of Chios since Sunday (22 June) prompting mass evacuations and a state ...

Wildfires devastate Greece’s Chios island for a third day. State of emergency declared as authorities suspect arson and fight ...

Firefighters battle with a wildfire burning in Kofinas, on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, late Sunday, June 22, 2025. Credit: AP ...