NATO nixes Georgia, Ukraine membership
NATO decided Thursday not to put Georgia and Ukraine on track to join the alliance after vehement Russian opposition, but the alliance pledged that the strategically important Black Sea nations will become members one day. Nations:[Georgia][Macedonia][Russia][Croatia][Greece][Ukraine] People:[Nicolas Sarkozy][Angela Merkel] 2008-04-03 NATO allies turn down Bush request
President Bush suffered a painful diplomatic setback Wednesday when NATO allies rebuffed his passionate pleas to put former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia on the path toward membership in the Western military alliance. Nations:[Ukraine][Macedonia][Greece][Romania][Russia] People:[Dmitry Medvedev][Nicolas Sarkozy][Angela Merkel][Vladimir Putin] Activities:[Bush Admin.] 2008-04-02 Protestors condemn govt over Greek fires
More than a thousand people demonstrated in Athens Tuesday against the government's management of Greece's deadly forest fires, hours after firefighters scrambled to put out the latest outbreak. Nations:[Greece] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-09-04 Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Greece's huge forest fires have been blamed by some on global warming, but satellite images of smoke plumes drifting as far as Africa prompt the question: are forests a major source of greenhouse gas? Nations:[Greece][Indonesia] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-09-02 Anger over fires may tilt Greek election
More wildfires broke out and others rekindled Tuesday as anger rose over the government's handling of catastrophic blazes that have laid waste to vast stretches of the Greek countryside and killed at least 64 people. Nations:[Greece] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-29 Greece fires contained, focus on relief
Winds relented throughout fire-ravaged Greece, enabling thousands of firefighters Wednesday to tame a rash of fires that killed at least 64 people and obliterated huge swaths of fields and forests over six days. Nations:[Greece][U.S.] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-29 Greek government faces intense criticism over fires
Greece's government faced a storm of criticism Tuesday for its handling of forest fires that were raging on for their fifth day, creating a national disaster that has claimed more than 60 lives. Nations:[Greece] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-29 Helicopters sent to save trapped Greeks
A helicopter swooped into a village in southern Greece to rescue residents trapped by flames on Monday -- one of dozens of fires that have torn through village and forest across the country, leaving blackened landscape in their wake. Nations:[Greece][Bulgaria] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-27 Frantic Greeks seek aid as fires kill 63
Desperate Greek villagers encircled by flames appealed for help on Monday as strong winds fanned forest fires that have swept the country, killing 63 people in three days. Nations:[Greece][France][Israel][Italy][Spain] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-27 Greek fires reach ancient Olympics site
 Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity. Nations:[Greece] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-27 Greek fires race toward Ancient Olympia
The fires consuming southern Greece raced toward the site of the ancient Olympics on Sunday, engulfing entire villages and parched forests blocking their path toward one of the most revered sites of antiquity. Nations:[Greece][Italy][France] Activities:[2007 Greece Fire] 2007-08-26 Wind-whipped fires in Greece kill 49
Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the government declared a nationwide state of emergency. Nations:[Greece][France] 2007-08-25
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