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ATHENS, Greece (AP) � Firefighters in Greece have contained a wildfire that threatened homes and prompted overnight evacuations at a resort town 18 miles northeast of Athens. The country’s fire service said Tuesday that more than 150 firefighters and volunteers battled through the night to stop the fire outside Nea Makri. At first light, two

ATHENS, Greece (AP) � Greek authorities have ordered outlying parts of a coastal resort town near Athens evacuated after a large wildfire broke out in the area. Media reports say the fire that began Monday night damaged a few houses on the outskirts of Nea Makri, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of the Greek

ATHENS, Greece (AP) � The leaders of Europe’s Mediterranean countries have pledged to expand cooperation in the fight against climate change and to back common security and defense initiatives in the European Union. Friday’s meetings in Athens were held in the aftermath of massive summer wildfires that ravaged parts of southern Europe, and the Taliban

ATHENS, Greece (AP) � Firefighting aircraft and ground forces in Greece have gained the upper hand over two new blazes that broke out in areas already scarred by major wildfires this summer. The first broke out Monday in the southern part of Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, whose north was devastated earlier this month by a

ATHENS, Greece (AP) � A major wildfire burning northwest of the Greek capital is devouring large tracts of pine forest for a third day and threatening a large village. The blaze in the Vilia area broke out Monday shortly after another wildfire started to the southwest of Athens. Several other villages and a nearby nursing

ATHENS, Greece (AP) � Hundreds of firefighters backed by more than 30 water-dropping planes are gaining ground against a large forest fire burning for the second day northwest of Athens that has led to the evacuation of a nursing home and several villages. The fire in the Vilia area, which is burning through a dense