Greece has arrested a Georgian woman suspected of discarding a cigarette that helped trigger one of several wildfires razing ...

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

An arson investigation team had been examining the cause of the wildfires which started on Sunday and required 444 ...

A state of emergency is declared and an arson investigation launched after five separate fires were sparked within hours.

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Hundreds of firefighters backed by aircraft are battling a wildfire burning out of control for the third day on the eastern ...

More than 100 firefighters assisted by water-dropping helicopters and planes are battling a large wildfire burning near the ...

Greek authorities have sent new evacuation notifications for two areas near the main town on the island of Chios as ...

It comes after hundreds of firefighters battled to contain the outbreak that has torn through swathes of forest and farmland ...

Greece has put the island of Chios under a state of emergency because of major fires that have raged since the weekend.

Greece evacuated parts of the east Aegean Sea island of Chios as firefighters struggled to contain a total of five blazes ...

Australian firefighters have joined Greece’s firefighting efforts in Chios, deploying helicopters and crew as wildfires rage ...