Greek PM cancels holiday as major island fire prompts evacuations

Hundreds of villagers were evacuated Tuesday and the Greek prime minister cancelled a vacation as scores of firefighters battled a major wildfire on the country's second-largest island of Evia, authorities said."Conditions are exceptionally difficult and the state's first priority is to protect lives," Kyriakos Mitsotakis told reporters outside the fire department's centre of operations, after cutting short a vacation on his home island of Crete.Mitsotakis added that four Canadair fire-fighting