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Two dead in small plane crash off Greece's island
Updated : 2 days, 14 hours ago IST
Samos [Greece], September 14 (ANI/Xinhua): A single-engine aircraft crashed in the sea off Greece's Samos island in the Aegean Sea on Monday, national news agency AMNA reported.
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Protesters gather around Greek Parliament blaming Pakistan for ong
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 29 (ANI): Approximately 800 demonstrators protested against Pakistan in front of the Greek Parliament on Sunday in an Afghan protest rally amid the ongoing crisis in the war-torn country.
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Afghan crisis: Hundreds protest against Taliban, Pakistan in Greec
Updated : 3 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Thessaloniki [Greece], August 22 (ANI): With Afghanistan plunging into a crisis, hundreds of people including numerous Afghans held a protest rally in Thessaloniki city of Greece against the Taliban and Pakistan.
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Greece erects fence at Turkey border to prevent Afghan refugee inf
Updated : 3 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 22 (ANI): In a bid to prevent the influx of Afghan refugees from the Turkish border, Greece has erected a 25-mile fence and installed a new surveillance system, a media report said on Saturday.
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Greece surveys damage from wildfires of 'exceptional magnitude'
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 13 (ANI): Nearly 100,000 hectares of forestry and farmland had burned in wildfires of Greece fuelled by an extraordinary heatwave at the beginning of August, said European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) on Wednesday (local time).
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Greece to modernize air firefighting fleet in aftermath of blazes:
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Greece will invest 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) to modernize its aerial firefighting capabilities in the wake of massive wildfires that recently ripped through the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday.
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Greece to purchase firefighting aircraft, other equipment as fires
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Greece will purchase fire-fighting helicopters and planes, state-of-the-art fire trucks and floating craft for evacuating people, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras announced Tuesday.
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India express concerns over blazing wildfires in Greece
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India] August 10 (ANI): India stands in solidarity with the government and people of Greece in their efforts to contain the devastating wildfires, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said while expressing concern over the ongoing wildfires in Greece.
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Israel to send help to fight wildfires in Greece
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], August 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Israel intends to send three planes to help Greece extinguish forest fires in addition to 15 Israeli firefighters who are already assisting the efforts, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told his Greek counterpart.
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Death toll from Greece wildfires rises to 2 as PM announces suppor
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 10 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from the raging wildfires in Greece has risen to two on Monday as devastating blazes continue to wreak havoc across the country.
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US approves USD 270 Mln sale to Greece of sustainment services for
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US] August 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The US State Department has given its approval to a proposed USD 270 million sale of equipment and maintenance services needed to sustain Greece's fleet of F-16 fighter jets, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.
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5.2 magnitude quake jolts Greece's Mandraki
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Nisyros [Greece], August 3 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 29 kilometer south of Mandraki, Greece at 12.38 GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.
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