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Mount Parnitha wildfire spreads to national forest area
The wildfire at Mount Parnitha in Attica has spread to the mountain's national forest area, the Fire Brigade's spokesperson Yiannis Artopios announced late Wednesday afternoon.
Dnevnik urges buying aircraft to fight fires
Ljubljana – Dnevnik newspaper says in Saturday’s commentary Attack from Air the Only Option that Slovenia urgently needs an aircraft to fight wildfires, stressing that climate change is here and dry summers are no longer in some distant future.
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Week in Review: Summer Heat, Rising Political Temperatures
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North Macedonia's Air Tractor firefighting plane. Photo by Zvonko Plavevski
High summer temperatures in South-East Europe traditionally go hand in hand with forest fires in the region. Last summer, as in many previous years, different corners of the region were devastated by drought and wildfires.
Erik Prince’s mercenaries are bombing Libya
On Jan. 11, 2017, Intelligence Online — a professional journal covering the world’s intelligence services — revealed that the pilots of Air Tractor attack planes flying from Al Khadim air base in Libya are private contractors working for Erik Prince, the founder of the company formerly known as Blackwater.
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