NICOSIA, Cyprus (AFP) – Five foreign governments deployed aircraft to Cyprus on Tuesday to help battle the island’s worst forest fires in years, which have claimed the lives of two firefighters and blighted swathes of countryside. France and Italy were the latest countries to send planes to assist more than 300 firefighters attempting to put out the blazes which have ran amok as the island swelters under temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Two British, […]





