EU pledges help as Greece damps down forest fires
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KATO SAMIKO, Greece  - 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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The prime minister pledged Sunday that thousands of acres of forests destroyed by wildfires across Greece in recent days would be replanted, including sections in a national park.Since Wednesday, fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres of forests left tinder-dry by a weeklong heat wave. The fires have been blamed for several deaths, including that of a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter. Arsonists seeking to clear land for development are suspected in some blazes.'I stress most emphatically that all burnt forests are automatically scheduled for reforestation,' Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said. 'Wherever forests stood, there will be forests once again.' Read more
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Fires burning across southern Greece that razed dozens of villages and killed at least 49 people were stabilized Sunday, but fire officials worried thick smoke and strong winds might hamper emergency workers' efforts.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greece's conservative government faced mounting accusations of incompetence on Tuesday over forest fires that have killed at least 63 people.
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With wildfires raging across the countryside, Greece's government said it has enlisted intelligence and counterterrorism agents to foil what it sees as a deliberate plan by arsonists to destroy Greek forests.
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The last major fire in southern Greece has been brought under control after flaring up again over the weekend, fire officials said Sunday.
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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PYRGOS, Greece  - Greeks besieged banks on Thursday, clamoring for state handouts aimed at helping people hit by the country's worst wildfire disaster, with fires still raging a week into the crisis.
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Forest fires that have swept through Greece in the past two days have killed 46 people and more are feared dead, the fire department said on Saturday.
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PLOUTOCHORI, Greece  - Greek firefighters gained the upper hand on Wednesday over widespread forest fires that have killed at least 63 people and left the government shaken by accusations of incompetence.
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ATHENS, Aug. 24 -- Forest fires raced across southern Greece on Friday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 17 people, two of them found locked in an embrace and others outside cars overtaken by the flames.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 28 â The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greeceâs political landscape: . The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism today, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeksâ fears about who might be to blame.
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Greek prime minister declares state of emergency, saying the forest fires 'can't be a coincidence'.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 3 (IPS) - The EU is stepping up relief efforts in the  tsunami-hit areas around the Indian Ocean.
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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.