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Turkey has become the latest country to offer firefighting aircraft to Greece to assist in the battle against wildfires across the country.

The neighboring country will provide two amphibious firefighting aircraft and a firefighting helicopter.

Wildfires are burning large tracts of forest and farmland in Attica and neighboring regions for the third day in a row, while another two major blazes, on the island of Rhodes and near the southern town of Sparta, flared up Wednesday.

Despite the expected arrival of firefighters from the EU and Israel on Thursday, authorities are not optimistic that the blazes will be contained soon.

Five European Union member states will jointly ask the bloc on Wednesday to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports beyond a deadline that expires on Sept. 15 to avoid major market turmoil, Hungary's agriculture minister told Reuters.

The reconstruction of Ukraine will require a large-scale coordinated and collective effort by all actors in the international community, Cyprus' Minister for Finance Makis Keravnos said, adding that Nicosia will take part in the effort, having also been a victim of foreign invasion. 

Over the last year, Bulgaria has earned 1.6 billion leva from the export of military products, Minister of Economy Bogdan Bogdanov announced to bTV.

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Today, the European Commission finally approved the second package of financial aid of 100 million euros to support farmers in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia who have suffered from increased imports of Ukrainian grain.

In other news, a Republican senator blocks US arms sale to Hungary for stalling Sweden's NATO bid; Slovakia's caretaker government fails to win a confidence vote, but will stay in office with reduced powers until the autumn election; and Polish women take to the streets again to protest abortion laws following the tragic death in hospital of another pregnant women.

Slovenia will get an additional seat in the European Parliament under a proposal adopted by the parliament on 15 June. The new distribution must now be okayed by the heads of state.

The proposal would award two seats to Spain and the Netherlands, and one to Slovenia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Ireland and Latvia.

Slovenia would thus have nine seats.