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Far-right strands are organising, but experts say they don’t yet pose the same threat as Golden Dawn.

Perched atop a metal ladder, Athanassia Pistola helps her husband nail the roof of a temporary pen for their farm animals that survived a gigantic fire that ravaged northeastern Greece in August.Out of the Pistola family's nearly 80 goats, only three survived, their backs still charred.

Refugees and legal experts say offensive, sexualised strip searches appear aimed at deterring further crossings.

AS THEY traversed the harsh, wooded terrain in northeastern Greece, the 18 asylum-seekers were presented with an agonising dilemma: Take the safer route through villages and over highways but into the arms of the Greek authorities, or travel through the forests and fields being ravaged by Europe’s largest recorded wildfire. They opted for the forests.

The largest fire in Greece this summer, the largest recorded in the history of the European Union, in Evros, burning some 180,000 acres