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1 day ago · Temperatures are expected to hit a sweltering 46C in parts of Greece, as last week's forecasts warned of an impending "heat bomb" that could shatter all-time records. Weather charts turned a ...
1 day ago · Fuelled by the scorching temperatures, forest fires have ravaged some areas. Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cautions that wildfires in 2024 could surpass previous years in severity, following early heatwaves accompanied by unusually strong winds. "It is a summer which is expected to be particularly dangerous.
1 day ago · Currently, Covid levels are only measured in the general population from mid-November to mid-March. But cases in Greece more than doubled from 5,200 on 9 June to 12,600 on 7 July, while cases in ...
1 hour ago · Updated: Jul 25, 2024 / 07:30 PM CDT. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece formally approved an offer to buy 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the United States as part of a major defense overhaul ...
1 hour ago · ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece formally approved an offer to buy 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the United States as part of a major defense overhaul, government officials said Thursday. Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said while visiting a military air base near Athens that the purchase would create “a powerful deterrent presence in our region.”
1 day ago · Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta. [6] The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth.
1 day ago · The Greek government had previously signaled its intent to purchase the highly stealthy warplanes as part of a major modernization program for the country’s air force. Dendias had reiterated Athens’ interest in the F-35 earlier this year, while also saying the Hellenic Air Force will sell-off or simply retire surplus fighter jets, such as F-16 Block 30 planes, F-4 Phantoms and the ...
