ATHENS (Reuters) – A man died on Friday as several forest fires fanned by gale-force winds battered Greece’s southern tip and forced evacuations, the fire brigade said. The 55-year-old man was injured in a blaze in the region of Ilia on the Peloponnese peninsula and died at a hospital, said a fire service official. Some […]
A dangerous winter storm is battering large swathes of the western US with residents in parts of California urged to shelter in place and prepare for power outages and a possible record 12ft of snow forecast to dump this weekend, amid gale-force winds and blizzard conditions. Perilous conditions in the Sierra Nevada region are expected […]