Greek government criticized as fires rage on
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greece's conservative government faced mounting criticism of incompetence on Tuesday as villagers fled fierce forest fires that have killed 63 people.
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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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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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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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Fires raced across dry woodlands in southern Greece yesterday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 27 people, the country's deadliest forest fire toll in decades, authorities said.
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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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KRESTENA, Greece  - 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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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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Wildfires swept through Greece Thursday, killing two people and destroying homes after days of record high temperatures that led to at least nine heatstroke deaths and extensive power cuts.
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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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The Greek government appealed for calm today, fearing a public backlash against immigrants following the bungled bus hijacking by two Albanian gunmen.
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ATHENS - Greeks head to the polls today to vote in a closely fought parliamentary election dominated by the prospect of painful economic measures and anger over the government's response to a wave of deadly and destructive wildfires.
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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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THESSALONIKI, Greece  - Greek riot police fired   several rounds of teargas at protesters hurling petrol bombs   and setting fires outside a venue where the country's prime   minister was set to make a speech on Saturday.
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Greece's first autumn rains on Sunday raised hopes of dousing forest fires that have killed 63 people while a grieving village buried a mother and her four children who perished in the flames.
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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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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.