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8/18/2021 9:23:07 PM
Satellite imagery from Tuesday showed a giant plume of smoke from the Vilia fire extending south for hundreds of kilometers along the entire length of the Peloponnese
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8/18/2021 1:16:13 PM
The blazes have stretched the country's firefighting capabilities to the limit, leading the government to appeal for international help, including through a European Union emergency response system.
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World
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8/17/2021 5:36:02 PM
Hundreds of wildfires have burned across Greece this month, fueled by the country's longest and most severe heat wave in decades that left its forests and shrubland bone dry.
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World
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8/16/2021 2:40:16 PM
Three settlements in the area were ordered evacuated, while the fire department sent dozens of firefighters, as well as six water-dropping planes and four helicopters. Local officials appealed to people not to approach the area
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Opinion
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8/14/2021 11:56:00 AM
Egypt has come to Greece’s aid in dealing with the wildfires now raging across the country, demonstrating the solidarity and ongoing cooperation between the two countries
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Tokyo 2020
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News
8/8/2021 12:31:29 PM
Japan won a record 27 golds at the virus-delayed Games, easily breaking its previous record of 16 set at the 1964 Tokyo Games and in Athens in 2004
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Egypt
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Politics
8/7/2021 3:18:00 PM
The move comes as per directives by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi
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Tokyo 2020
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News
8/7/2021 2:17:00 PM
The 22-year-old is the first Egyptian Olympian to win gold since wrestler Karam Gaber, who triumphed in the men's Greco-Roman 96kg at the 2004 Athens Games. She is also the first Egyptian female to win a gold medal
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Tokyo 2020
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8/4/2021 5:52:09 PM
Kesho won the bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 67kg event at the Tokyo Olympics after beating the 2018 World Champion Artem Surkov of Russia on Wednesday
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International
8/4/2021 11:06:29 AM
The fire was fueled by tinder-dry conditions caused by a protracted heat wave that began last week and sent temperatures soaring to 45 degrees Celsius (113 F)
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World
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International
8/3/2021 7:56:58 PM
" It is a large fire and it will take a lot of work to get this under control," greater Athens regional governor George Patoulis told state-run ERT television.
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Tokyo 2020
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News
8/1/2021 11:23:47 AM
Shi's victory enabled her to match compatriot Guo Jingjing's back-to-back double 3 metre springboard golds at the Athens and Beijing Olympics and was China's ninth consecutive gold in the individual event
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World
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International
7/31/2021 6:33:16 PM
Ninety-five firefighters, 33 trucks, four planes and helicopters have been mobilised to extinguish the fire in the Zeria region in the Peloponnese, about 210 kilometres of Athens
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World
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Region
7/28/2021 7:57:05 PM
Leaders of the three countries, speaking at a summit in Athens, were responding to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's announcement last week of plans to reopen Varosha
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World
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International
6/7/2021 6:29:27 PM
Greece on Monday designated neighboring Turkey as a safe country in which to seek international protection for the majority of asylum-seekers departing its shores for Greece
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World
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5/31/2021 11:58:50 AM
Cavusoglu had previously said the aim of his visit was to prepare for a bilateral meeting between Greek Prime Minister and Turkish President during a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14
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World
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International
5/28/2021 2:35:27 PM
The Athens-to-Vilnius flight carrying a wanted opposition activist was forced to land in Minsk on Sunday over a supposed bomb scare
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World
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International
5/24/2021 1:26:20 PM
Several NATO members have denounced Belarus' decision to force the Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land and to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich
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World
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International
5/22/2021 12:04:31 PM
The fire, on the Geraneia mountain range, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) west of the capital, is 'one of the biggest in the past 20 to 30 years, and has come early in the season'
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World
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Region
4/16/2021 3:58:20 PM
Greece government said it wanted a "positive agenda" with Turkey despite differences, a day after their foreign ministers clashed during a news conference, while President Erdogan defended Ankara's response
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