Greece declares nationwide emergency as fires kill 46
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ZACHARO, Greece  - The Greek government declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after raging forest fires killed at least 46 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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Forest fires raced across southern Greece on Friday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 17 people, two found locked in an embrace and others outside cars overtaken by the flames.
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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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KRESTENA, Greece  - Thousands of Greeks threatened by towering walls of fire fled their homes on Monday as strong winds fanned blazes that have devastated the country and killed 63 people in four days.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - 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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The Greek government, heading for elections next month, is facing a crisis over its handling of deadly forest fires.
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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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Greek firefighters started to get to grips with countrywide forest fires on Wednesday after six devastating days, but warned that a coming heatwave could reignite the flames that have killed at least 63 people.
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Wildfires in Greece are beaten back by firefighters, as anger over the government's handling of the crisis grows.
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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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Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages, and scorched the edges of Athens yesterday, 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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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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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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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has declared a state of emergency after sending in riot police to battle protesters demanding his resignation.
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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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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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KRESTENA, Greece  - Frantic Greek villagers fled as fire engulfed their homes, farms and forests on Tuesday in an inferno that has killed 63 people and prompted public outrage at the government's handling of the crisis.