Raging Fires in Greece Kill Another 12 People
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The fire continued to consume homes and to advance on the ruins where the Olympic games were first played.
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Forest fires sweeping Greece  have killed 44 people in two days and more were feared dead in  villages cut off by towering flames on Saturday in what the  government called a national tragedy.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece  - Firefighters battled to save ancient Olympia on Sunday as Greece's worst forest fires in decades ravaged hills around the historic site and the death toll rose to 56.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greece's conservative government faced mounting criticism of incompetence on Tuesday as villagers fled fierce forest fires that have killed 63 people.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Forest fires raging in Greece have killed 41 people in two days and more were feared dead with some villages still trapped by flames on Saturday in what the government called a national tragedy.
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Multiple forest fires sweeping across southern Greece have claimed at least 37 lives, destroyed numerous homes and put a damper on political campaigning ahead of next month's national elections, according to officials.
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Dozens of tourists and local residents are forced onto beaches as a forest fire rages in northern Greece.
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Fire kills 9   A fire tore through a house in a central Russian region yesterday, killing nine people, including four children, emergency officials said.
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A state of emergency is declared by the Greek prime minister, amid a rising death toll from forest fires.
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Villagers in Livadaki are living in tents after fires destroyed their homes on Peloponnese, Greece
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A fire at an illegal furniture factory in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg killed 12 people and injured 10 others, emergency officials said Wednesday.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Forest fires sweeping Greece have killed 41 people in two days and more are feared dead with some villages still trapped by flames on Saturday in what the government has called a national tragedy.
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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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Winds relented throughout fire-ravaged Greece yesterday, enabling thousands of firefighters to tame a wave of fires that killed at least 64 people and obliterated huge tracts of fields and forests over six days.
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Dozens of forest fires, fanned by strong  winds in a six-day heatwave, raged across central and southern  Greece on Thursday, killing two people and burning scores of  houses.
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Greece's worst forest fires in decades have killed 41 people in the past 24 hours and more are feared dead in villages still cut off by flames sweeping parts of the Peloponnese peninsula, officials said on Saturday.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greek firefighters backed by EU teams battled raging forest blazes that have killed 63 people and opposition parties accused the government of incompetence in handling the crisis.