Greece and Italy devastated as EU sends firefighters
Aug 13, 2021
4 minutes
By Helena Smith ATHENS; Jennifer Rankin BRUSSELS; Angela Giuffrida ROME and Jon Henley PARIS
The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole.
As UN experts on Monday said global warming was advancing faster than feared and that humanity was “unequivocally” to blame, firefighters and local residents battled massive blazes on the island of Evia, east of Athens, for a seventh straight day.
The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, apologised for
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