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Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives on the presidential tribune and greets India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, the guest of honour, ahead of the Bastille Day parade. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrive for their bilateral meeting, on the second day of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. IMAGES
In a ceremony in Greece's capital, Athens, a new cabinet formed by the elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sworn in during a service led by Archbishop Ieronymos. The Conservative leader embarks on his second term as Greece's prime minister with a vow to accelerate institutional and economic reforms. IMAGES
Supporters of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party blare air horns at the party's main electoral kiosk in Athens as exit polls show the party to be on course to win Sunday's election. His New Democracy party is projected to have obtained 36 to 40 percent of the votes -- well ahead of leftist challenger Alexis Tsipras' Syriza party, which is expected to have secured 25 to 29 percent of the ballot - but could be forced to call a second round of votes as it failed to garner enough support to rule alone. IMAGES
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski are welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris. IMAGES