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Fires wreak destruction in Greece for a fourth day
 Thirty villages evacuated as answers are sought on cause of worst ever blazes

Wildfires continued to ravage the Peloponnese and other parts of the country yesterday for a fourth day as thousands of villagers fled their homes and the official death toll from the unprecedented blazes climbed to 63.
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Aid arrives as EU help sought
Banks, state institutions and business groups yesterday pledged...
Exam results joy dampened
Almost 70 percent of senior high school students who sat university entrance exams...
Power back after fires wreck poles
Problems with electricity supply, caused by fires raging across the country...
Doctors issue warning over smoke-filled air
Doctors yesterday advised people with respiratory problems...
IN BRIEF
Morning tremor shakes Cephalonia, Patras feels afternoon quake : An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the Ionian island of Cephalonia yesterday morning but did not cause...
Man caught selling 1.5 kilos of heroin to undercover policeman : A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to sell some 1.5 kilos of heroin to an undercover officer in Serres...
ATM attacked : An improvised incendiary device was placed early yesterday outside an ATM in Thessaloniki, causing damage to the bank...

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EDITORIAL
Time to apportion blame
 A new harsh reality is upon us in Greece. What we have seen over the past few days is not just a major disaster, but a crime that had been waiting to happen. We all know the country had been experiencing an extended drought that created the conditions for major fires.
COMMENTARY
An asymmetric country
 An asymmetric threat… as asymmetric as the phone calls I receive from friends in Styra, Marmari, Itilo, Kalyvia, Lechaina and Asea. As asymmetric as their broken voices and silences, just like the ashen grief that covers the intact tourist resorts and the islands.
OPINION
The terrible price of our apathy
 The worst thing is that we will probably not learn anything from this disaster. We will continue to search for arsonists or for anarchists as more fires burn...
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