Greek Leaders Criticized Over Fires
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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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Greece's PM implies arson is to blame as fires that have killed about 50 people bear down on more villages.
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Winds relented throughout fire-ravaged Greece yesterday, enabling thousands of firefighters to tame a wave of fires that killed at least 64 people and obliterated huge tracts of fields and forests over six days.
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A right-wing Greek party that has been denounced as anti-Semitic and racist could be benefiting from a popular backlash against the country's main political parties fueled by wildfires that have killed 67 people.
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The prime minister pledged Sunday that thousands of acres of forests destroyed by wildfires across Greece in recent days would be replanted, including sections in a national park.Since Wednesday, fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres of forests left tinder-dry by a weeklong heat wave. The fires have been blamed for several deaths, including that of a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter. Arsonists seeking to clear land for development are suspected in some blazes.'I stress most emphatically that all burnt forests are automatically scheduled for reforestation,' Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said. 'Wherever forests stood, there will be forests once again.' Read more
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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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Wildfires in Greece are beaten back by firefighters, as anger over the government's handling of the crisis grows.
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Thousands of Greeks protest against the political response to recent wildfires, which have killed 63 people.
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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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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.
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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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Firefighters battle to contain a major forest fire near the suburbs of the Greek capital, Athens.
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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 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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ATHENS, Greece  - Forest fires that have ravaged Greece for more than 10 days have largely come under control after killing 64 people and leaving thousands homeless, the fire brigade said on Monday.
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JACQUES Chirac and French political and religious leaders voiced outrage yesterday over an arson attack that burned down a Jewish social centre in central Paris.
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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.