Greeks clamour for state fire aid
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Thousands of Greeks queue for government aid after the country's worst forest fires for decades.
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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.
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Thousands of Greeks protest against the political response to recent wildfires, which have killed 63 people.
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With world attention focussed upon Athens this month, Greece is certainly basking in the spotlight.
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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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Firefighters in Northern Greece struggle to control forest fires raging for third day.
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A massive cleanup, reconstruction and anti-flood effort was being launched Monday for fire-stricken parts of southern Greece as one fire front continued to burn while others abated, officials said.
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ATHENS, Greece -- In a rented warehouse in Athens&#39; Alimos neighborhood, a group of Greek florists with blistered fingers are working to be a part of Olympic history.
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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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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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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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A state of emergency is declared by the Greek prime minister, amid a rising death toll from forest fires.
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Greek forest fires that have killed 47 people in the past three days are approaching the archaeological site of ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games, the fire department said on Sunday.
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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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PLOUTOCHORI, Greece  - Greek firefighters on Wednesday beat back countrywide forest fires that have killed at least 63 people, but said they fear new flare-ups with a heatwave expected this weekend.
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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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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.