Heading east, Europe's heatwave, wildfires strikes Poland, Greece

ATHENS, Greece: As firefighters battled wildfires across the continent this week, the heat wave scorching Europe moved eastwards to Italy, Poland and Slovenia, which issued their highest level heat wave alerts.

After containing a major wildfire fanned by high winds that ravaged areas near Athens for two days, Greece urged Europe to do more to address climate change.

Greek government spokesman Giannis Oiko