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Firefighting plane crashes in Greece, killing both pilots, as island blazes force new evacuations
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Firefighting plane crashes in Greece, killing both pilots, as island blazes force new evacuations

RHODES: A Greek air force water-dropping plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, killing both pilots, as authorities battled blazes…

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Greece Wildfires: Wildfires in Greece burn for days, more tourists expected to fly out
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Greece Wildfires: Wildfires in Greece burn for days, more tourists expected to fly out

RHODES: Greece battled to contain wildfires on the island of Rhodes for a seventh day on Tuesday, as hundreds of tourists who had been forced…

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Rhodes: Greek authorities evacuate some 19,000 people as wildfire blazes on the island of Rhodes
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Rhodes: Greek authorities evacuate some 19,000 people as wildfire blazes on the island of Rhodes

ATHENS: Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day on three fronts, Greek…

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