Forest fires kill 44 in Greece
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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.
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Massive wildfires in Greece were "generally receding" on Wednesday, fire authorities said, as anger rose over the government's handling of the catastrophic blazes that have seared vast stretches of countryside and killed at least 64 people.
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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.
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Wildfires burned homes Thursday and forced the evacuations of villages, a convent and a children's camp in southern Greece, as a heat wave swept across southeastern Europe.
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Firefighters battle to contain a major forest fire near the suburbs of the Greek capital, Athens.
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ARTEMIDA, Greece  - Sobbing villagers on Sunday buried a Greek mother and her four children who died in destructive forest fires, as the first autumn rains raised hopes of dousing the flames that have killed 64 people.
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Opposition MPs in Greece attack the government response to forest fires which have claimed at least 63 lives.
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Greek prime minister declares state of emergency, saying the forest fires 'can't be a coincidence'.
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At least 15 people are feared killed in southern Greece, on the deadliest day of wildfires this year.
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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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Some 37 bodies are discovered as emergency services battle raging forest fires in southern Greece.
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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, 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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ZAHARO, Greece, Aug. 25 -- Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
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ATHENS, Aug 30 (IPS) - Greece is set to pay an enormous cost after a week  of unstoppable inferno, with fires still burning out of control.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Desperate Greek villagers encircled by flames appealed for help on Monday as strong winds fanned forest fires that have swept the country, killing 63 people in three days.
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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.