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Trash war escalates Minister says workers are being used as storm clouds gather As more than 10,000 tons of rubbish mount up on the city's sidewalks due to the shutdown of Attica's only landfill, Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias accused striking employees of being pawns in a game of waste management that involves tens of millions of euros.

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Top judge to face trial for corruption

In the highest level corruption scandal to hit the Greek judiciary, an Athens prosecutor yesterday brought misdemeanor charges against the Supreme Court's vice president, accusing him of interfering in the course of justice.

Zealot monks protest eviction

Ultra-Orthodox clerics, Old Calendrists and other religious zealots are to stage a rally in the northern town of Ouranoupolis today to protest a decision by the Mount Athos monastic community to evict some 100 zealot monks from the Esphigmenou Monastery. About 100 rebel monks are believed to be taking measures to avert a possible invasion of their brotherhood and to fortify their offices in Karyes.

Papandreou on attack after internal dissent

Soon after high-ranking party officials raised questions about his leadership yesterday, PASOK leader...

Deadly air crash simulated

Investigators probing the causes of the Helios airliner crash in August held a simulation of the flight yesterday in an effort to shed light on the accident that killed 121 people, according to sources.

IN BRIEF

Man gets life sentence for killing former Thessaloniki police chief : A Thessaloniki appeals court yesterday sentenced Giorgos Hadzopoulos to life imprisonment...

Seven firms fined 97,000 euros : The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) fined seven food companies a total of 97,000 euros...

Arson attacks : Five cars were damaged in an arson attack in the Athenian district of Peristeri...

Icon visit : A Byzantine-era icon of Demetrios, patron saint of Thessaloniki, is to be flown to the city...

Lufthansa backtracks : Lufthansa distanced itself yesterday from the comments made by one of its employees...

Camera destroyed : A closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera used for monitoring traffic was set on fire and destroyed...

Missing fisherman : Rescue services yesterday continued a sea and air search off the Thermaic Gulf for a 31-year-old fisherman...

Driver killed : A 20-year-old man was killed in Thessaloniki yesterday when his vehicle veered off the road...

Armed trio : Police were hunting yesterday for three armed robbers, thought to be foreigners...


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EDITORIAL

At Turkey’s heart, a major paradox A letter by Turkish Ambassador to Paris Uluc Ozulker that was published yesterday in the French daily Le Figaro in which he portrayed Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, who is based in Istanbul, as a local religious leader is one more piece of evidence that our eastern neighbor is far from ready to come under the European Union roof.

COMMENTARY

An EU stretched too far The looming collapse of Turkey's EU talks before they have even started confirms that, for European governments, Ankara's refusal to recognize Cyprus was merely a pretext used to revise their wrongheaded strategy. Vienna is once again halting the Sultan at the gates of Europe - a role that Athens and Nicosia could not afford to play. But the loose-tongued Austrians do not speak only for themselves. The recent setback in the European Parliament and French calls for a «clearly controlled» application...

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