Government faces the heat as Greece burns
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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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Greeceâs culture minister pruned the powers of the countryâs new archaeology chief after the dismissal and suicide attempt of the politician who preceded him in that post.
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Greek prime minister declares state of emergency, saying the forest fires 'can't be a coincidence'.
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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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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 in what the government called a national tragedy.
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Greece's New Democracy party is now confronting allegations of graft in its own government
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Greeks cast ballots on Sunday in an election expected to determine the fate of key economic reforms and turn fringe politicians into powerbrokers as voters angry with this summer's forest fires punish big parties.
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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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The barrage of brutal wildfires in Greece hit hardest in a popular tourist destination, but with fires starting to come under control, tourists are trickling back in.
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Foreign firefighters and aircraft joined the battle Tuesday against blazes in southern Greece, and officials expressed optimism that wildfires burning some of the country's lushest landscape could be brought under partial control.
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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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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 and the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
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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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MAKISTOS, 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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Power blackouts hit 13 locations in Athens and 95 fires were reported across Greece on Wednesday amid a heat wave that has killed dozens of people in southeast Europe over the past week.
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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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The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greece's political landscape: The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism yesterday, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeks' fears about who might be ...