Wildfires

The victims of the devastating fires raging in Australia since Friday are now four, TASS and France Press reported, citing the latest police figures.

A man's body was found near the town of Kempsey, in southeastern New South Wales. He is believed to be a 58-year-old resident who has not been seen since Friday.

Greek authorities say they are reinforcing firefighting forces tackling a large forest fire on the western island of Zakynthos, where a tourist resort was evacuated.

Greece's fire service says it has arrested two people in southern Greece suspected of starting fires, one of them who did so three times.

Firefighters were battling a large blaze in the area of Klakova near Megalopolis in the Peloponnese on Monday.

A team of 16 firefighters, manning eight engines, were sent to the scene while five water-dropping aircraft assisted their efforts.

It remained unclear whether the blaze was close to residential areas.

Greek authorities sent reinforcements to firefighters battling four wildfires burning out of control on the Greek island of Evia Friday, while at least five villages were evacuated.

Two planes flew to Israel on Friday to join fire fighters who are battling numerous raging fires in a declared emergency.
According to local media, two fire-fighting airplanes from the Forestry Department flew to Israel to help battle wildfires in the country.

The findings of a recent report by three prosecutors on last summer's east Attica wildfires that claimed 100 lives constitutes a scathing exposure of the cynical cover-up campaign that followed the deadly event.

Authorities are this week to continue knocking down homes that were destroyed in last month's Attica wildfires, as notifications start going out to owners of properties deemed to have been illegally built on forestland or coastlines ahead of demolitions slated to begin in the middle of September.

A village in the western Peloponnese has been evacuated after a fire that broke out in a nearby forest approached houses.

Thirty fire tenders and 90 firefighters are battling the blaze at Dafniotissa, near Amaliada, with the help of three aircraft and a helicopter.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is mulling his tactics in what has become a protracted pre-election period, with a cabinet reshuffle still expected by early September though major changes are considered unlikely amid attempts to keep the fragile coalition intact.