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Greece: Blazes continue to spread across the country

Greece: Blazes continue to spread across the country
France 24 Sunday 02 August 2026, 08:43 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Greece: Blazes continue to spread across the country Europe Issued on: Share The effects of human-made climate change are being felt across Europe during this sweltering summer, from record heat-related deaths in Austria, Britain, France and Germany, to tinderbox conditions fuelling historic wildfires in Spain, France and elsewhere. Charlotte Hughes takes a look at the situation in Greece.
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