Alexandroupoli

A 46-year-old high school teacher has been arrested in the northern city of Alexandroupoli following a complaint by a 17-year-old student alleging he had been following her on school premises with threatening intent. 

Direct access to the islands of Imbros (or Gokceada in Turkish) and Tenedos (or Bozcaada) has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of access from Greece.

A massive wildfire that decimated vast tracts of forest in northeastern Greece over 17 days was gradually abating on Monday, although hundreds of firefighters were still tackling pockets that continued to burn, the fire department said.

The European Union's largest wildfire since the bloc started keeping records more than two decades ago showed no signs of abating Wednesday in northeastern Greece despite the efforts of a multinational firefighting force on the ground and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft.

The Evros fire in northeastern Greece has destroyed at least 808.7 square kilometers, an area larger than New York City, which occupies 778.2 square kilometers, making it the largest blaze in the EU since 2000, according to data from Copernicus' Emergency Management Agency.

The Evros wildfire, now in its 11th day, has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service has said.

View of a partially burned forest following a wildfire, near the village of Avantas in the region of Evros, northeastern Greece. Firefighters were working on three fronts on Tuesday to extinguish the fire blazing in Evros. The fire department's projection of a change in wind direction to the south is increasing concern of the risk of the flames approaching settlements.

Greek authorities reinforced firefighting forces in the northeastern part of the country Monday, where a massive deadly wildfire was burning for a 10th day with no signs of abating.

The fire in the Alexandroupoli and Evros areas near the Turkish border has been blamed for 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in Greece last week.

Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle flare-ups in major fires in northeastern Greece, Attica, the adjoining regional unit of Boeotia and the island of Andros.

Three people accused of taking the law into their own hands by detaining 13 undocumented migrants in a cargo trailer have been placed under temporary house arrest and ordered to surrender their passports after appearing before an investigating magistrate in the northern city of Alexandroupoli.