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World
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International
8/23/2023 2:12:28 PM
Greek firefighters on Wednesday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/21/2023 8:45:38 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday landed in Athens for an official visit, the Greek prime minister's office said, and would later join an informal dinner with EU and Balkans leaders.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/20/2023 1:44:15 PM
Egypt has called for calm and the prevention of actions that could exacerbate tensions in Cyprus, following the recent attack on the UN peacekeeping mission within the buffer zone that separates the Turkish Cypriot north and the Greek Cypriot south.
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World
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International
8/19/2023 6:42:42 PM
Greek authorities on Saturday ordered seven villages evacuated near the northeastern border with Turkey due to a large summer wildfire burning out of control and whipped on by high winds.
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World
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International
8/19/2023 5:33:48 PM
Greek authorities on Saturday rescued nearly 60 migrants in inflatable dinghies trying to cross from Turkey to the nearby eastern Aegean Sea islands in two separate incidents, the coast guard said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/15/2023 9:40:06 PM
The sanctification of animals in ancient Egypt has often been misunderstood, with ancient Greek visitors to Egypt being largely responsible, writes Hussein Bassir
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Sports
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World
8/12/2023 10:41:32 PM
Greek prosecutors on Saturday charged 40 people in connection with the fatal stabbing of a football supporter in Athens before a Champions League game, officials said.
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Sports
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World
8/9/2023 1:17:47 PM
More than 100 people were due to appear before a Greek prosecutor on Wednesday in connection with a deadly brawl before a Champions League qualifier near Athens this week.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/8/2023 10:31:00 PM
Last week’s meeting between President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will serve to boost Egyptian-Greek relations.
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Sports
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World
8/8/2023 2:52:55 PM
A Greek football fan was stabbed to death on the outskirts of Athens during a brawl between rival club supporters, with 96 people arrested in violent clashes, police said Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/5/2023 11:30:07 AM
Tourists at a seaside hotel on the Greek island of Rhodes snatched up pails of pool water and damp towels as flames approached, rushing to help staffers and locals extinguish one of the wildfires threatening Mediterranean locales during recent heat waves.
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World
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International
7/29/2023 7:08:11 PM
Wildfires that have scorched Greece for more than two weeks were on Saturday mostly under control, but firefighters remained in key hotspots with strong winds still a threat, officials said.
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World
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International
7/25/2023 6:10:55 PM
A Greek air force's water-dropping plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, with both pilots feared dead, as authorities battled blazes that have been raging for days across the country amid a return of heat wave temperatures.
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World
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International
7/24/2023 7:57:52 PM
Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as the prime minister warned that the heat-battered nation was "at war" with several wildfires.
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World
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International
7/24/2023 10:48:44 AM
Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fight several wildfires in heat-battered Greece.
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World
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International
7/23/2023 6:18:44 PM
Locals and tourists fled hotspots on the Greek island of Rhodes on Sunday, as firefighters battled a blaze that had sparked the country's largest-ever fire evacuation.
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World
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International
7/23/2023 12:14:22 PM
The Rhodes wildfires have sparked the biggest Greek evacuation operation ever in response to a fire, Greek police told AFP Sunday.
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World
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International
7/22/2023 10:45:00 PM
Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes said Saturday they had moved 30,000 people threatened by wildfires to safety -- including 2,000 who had to be ferried off beaches.
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World
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International
7/12/2023 12:56:20 PM
The Greek prime minister is to hold a rare meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, with the two countries seeking to build on a rapprochement forged after this year's deadly earthquake.
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World
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International
7/9/2023 10:15:09 PM
Greece’s conservative government won a vote of confidence Saturday in Parliament to start its second four-year term, two weeks after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party handily won the election.
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