How much of a challenge are wildfires to Europe?
Rapidly spreading blazes are scorching the continent.

Rapidly spreading blazes are scorching the continent.








![Tourists walk inside the Acropolis archaeological site near the location where two American tourists were stabbed in Athens, Greece, July 21, 2026. [Louiza Vradi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MiniSV-Acropolis-attack-horz-clean-1784653974.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Controversy has centred largely on casting, but it also reflects broader debates on who gets to retell this epic story.
The country, which suffers each summer, builds an arsenal of high-tech surveillance to help pre-position firefighters.
Greek former parliamentarian Stelios Kouloglou targeted with Pegasus software, Citizen Lab analysis finds.

Rescue teams in Greece are combing through the rubble for survivors after a four-story apartment building in Athens.
Mass raids on Roma communities show how Europe is recasting racial discrimination as crime prevention and public order.
Greece’s migration minister recently said Athens does not share common values with ‘hardcore Islam’.
Probe uncovers luxury resorts and offshore wealth as government crackdown targets Mafia networks.

Demonstrators gathered outside Greece’s foreign ministry in Athens.
The Israeli attack on part of our flotilla has convinced us we must continue with our mission to Marmaris.

After a week in Israeli custody, flotilla activist Saif Abu Keshek has been deported to Greece.