WITH a massive wildfire now contained after raging for two days near Athens, the Greek government was facing a different kind of firestorm yesterday as media lambasted its response.

With a massive wildfire now contained after raging for two days near Athens, the Greek government was facing a different kind of firestorm today as media lambasted its response.

Greece’s fire department said all major blazes were “generally receding,” but authorities remained on high alert for possible rekindling of the massive fires that have killed at least 64 people before a new heat wave forecast for the weekend.

Greek and Turkish fighter jets collided over the Aegean Sea island of Karpathos today as they shadowed each other.

Greece is to block neighbour Macedonia from joining Nato or the EU unless a dispute over the Balkan nation’s name is resolved.