ATHENS, Greece (AP) A massive wildfire was burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day Tuesday despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft fr.
After large areas were burned, the fire was concentrated mainly in Alexandroupolis and Evros, in the depths of a forest near the border with Turkey, in a
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The wildfire that has spent the last week-and-a-half burning through northeastern Greece is now the European Union's largest since the turn of the millennium.The European Forest Fire Information System began keeping records in 2000, less than a decade after its parent political body formed.The blaze, which has consumed large areas along the Turkish border, is