The Latest Breaking News from Greece

As Greece was hit by wave after wave of wildfires this week, unfounded claims that asylum-seekers are behind some of them whipped up anti-migrant frenzy online.

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As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe, the United States and China; wildfires lit up Greece, Canada and Maui in Hawaii; and winter storms froze large parts of the US.

The destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes.

Temperature records broken in France and red alerts issued in Italy as late summer heatwave continues in southern Europe

Greece has been campaigning for decades for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures

Water-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border

The chairman of the British Museum All-Party Parliamentary Group has accused Greece of “blatant opportunism” in claiming the institution is…

Legal action is being taken by the museum against an unnamed member of staff, who has been sacked.