Greece tackles road safety after crash
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Greece announced stringent measures to improve safety on its roads yesterday as the country mourned seven schoolchildren killed in a traffic accident on their way to the Paralympics.
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A westbound stretch of the M8 is closed after a serious crash involving three vehicles, according to police.
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Traffic police have handed their report to Athens prosecutors on the motorcycle crash reported by disgraced Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, a police source says.
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The Greek government, heading for elections next month, is facing a crisis over its handling of deadly forest fires.
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A search and rescue team has reached the site of the crash, and an investigation is being conducted.
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A crash between two cars leaves two people dead and six injured, four of them seriously.
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Three people are believed to have been killed in a serious accident in Aberdeenshire.
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Planes dropped water on  smoldering forest fires in Greece on Friday and the European  Union promised cash to help the country recover from more than  a week of destructive blazes that killed 63 people.
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Police take cover as they surround a bus in eastern Athens early Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 27 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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"The next few hours will be critical"  Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 15 people in southern Greece Friday, including at least nine people trapped in their cars as the flames approached.Across the country, more than 150 fires were burning, and the government appealed to the European Union to 'send any help they can,' acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece's civil protection department.Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force prevented firefighting planes from taking off, leaving only ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, with occasional help from helicopters and residents using their garden hoses. A three-day heat wave, with temperatures up to 104 degrees, has left forests and scrubland parched on the peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus. Read more
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Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt is recovering in hospital today, after his chauffeur-driven car crashed into a concrete pillar near his home and overturned several times.
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KATO SAMIKO, Greece  - Planes dropped water on smoldering forest fires in Greece on Friday and the European Union promised a huge aid effort to help the recovery from the inferno which has been burning for more than a week.
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Firefighting aircraft from several countries help Greece tackle devastating forest fires that have killed 60 people.
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One person dies and a number of people injured in a crash involving 40 vehicles in Kent.
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TWO Greek sprinters facing expulsion from the Olympics over missed drug tests left hospital yesterday after four days of treatment for injuries suffered in an unexplained motorbike crash.
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ATHENS (Greece): Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early on Wednesday, Greek police said.
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Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and  Katerina Thanou came out of hospital after a mysterious  motorcycle crash which left Kenteris with scratches and Thanou  with no visible injuries, according to a medical report.