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Images show floodwater on road that leads to the city of Volos in Greece. At least one person has died in eastern Greece after torrential rains hit the country, already ravaged for weeks by devastating wildfires, authorities say. The regional capital Volos has seen 200 millimetres (about eight inches) of rain, while 516 mm have fallen in the neighbouring village of Zagora, according to the National Meteorological Service (EMY). IMAGES
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
A boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants is safely towed to the Greek island of Crete after a dramatic rescue complicated by near gale-force winds, a coastguard said. IMAGES
A bus carrying migrants rescued off the coast of Libya arrives at a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon in southern France. IMAGES
Buses under police escort enter and leave the city of Toulon, in southern France, as 230 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya are transferred by bus to a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon. IMAGES