Greeks step up fire investigation
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Greek police hold 32 arson suspects as they step up inquiries into fires that have killed dozens of people.
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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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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canadian and U.S.  police were investigating on Friday if a Washington state man  arrested for arson in Vancouver was connected with more than a  dozen suspicious fires in the Seattle area this summer.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - The battle against raging forest fires that have killed 63 Greeks and made thousands homeless entered its fifth day as opposition parties accused the government of incompetence in handling the crisis.
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The European Commission president visits Greek areas hit by wild fires, promising aid for those affected.
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Investigators try to find the cause of a hotel fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
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Greeks go to the polls on Sunday in the aftermath of deadly forest fires to vote in a closely fought election seen as critical for reforms needed in the euro zone's second-poorest member.
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Multiple forest fires sweeping across southern Greece have claimed at least 37 lives, destroyed numerous homes and put a damper on political campaigning ahead of next month's national elections, according to officials.
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"The next few hours will be critical"  Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 15 people in southern Greece Friday, including at least nine people trapped in their cars as the flames approached.Across the country, more than 150 fires were burning, and the government appealed to the European Union to 'send any help they can,' acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece's civil protection department.Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force prevented firefighting planes from taking off, leaving only ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, with occasional help from helicopters and residents using their garden hoses. A three-day heat wave, with temperatures up to 104 degrees, has left forests and scrubland parched on the peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus. Read more
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By Paul James  A fire that ravaged an historic school building has been confirmed by detectives as an arson attack.
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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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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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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 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 ...
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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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ZACHARO, Greece  - Forest fires that have killed 61 people in Greece raged for a fourth day on Monday, with at least 89 blazes still burning across the country as strong winds fanned flames and hampered fire-fighting efforts.
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PYRGOS, Greece  - Greek villages on Thursday started burying relatives killed by forest fires that were still burning parts of the country for a sixth day as thousands rushed to collect damage compensation from banks.