Greece: PM apologizes amid ‘unprecedented’ wildfires
13 August 2021 |
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As wildfires on Greece's Evia island continued to rage, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has promised compensation amid criticism of the state's handling of the disaster.
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