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A Greek-Turkish draw Panathinaikos fans pelt foreign ministers, soccer match ends 1-1 ISTANBUL (AP) - The Turkish and Greek foreign ministers yesterday attended the first-ever competitive game between their countries' soccer teams, an event meant to improve relations but which was marred by tension and some violence even before it started.

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Hidden debt eats up fake fiscal figures

After several years of false euphoria over its economic performance, Greece came down to earth yesterday with the announcement that Eurostat's revised figures...

Anxiety over Cyprus plan

With the Turkish national elections scheduled for Sunday and the EU summit of mid-December expected to conclude Cyprus's EU accession...

Too few mothers breast-feed

Fewer and fewer Greek mothers are breast-feeding their babies, thus placing their own health and that of their children at risk, a leading paediatrician warned yesterday.

Cost of ferry travel goes up

Ferry ticket prices will be at least 7.4 percent higher as of today, when certain of the strict state regulations governing Greece's coastal shipping market cease to exist.

Poor proceeds from robbers’ double heist

Half-a-dozen bank robbers mounted an impressive double heist near the northern Greek town of Kavala yesterday but made off with negligible loot after a gunfight with police...

IN BRIEF

Former Council of State judge was first post-junta president : Michalis Stassinopoulos, Greece’s first post-dictatorship president...

Full-time terrorists received monthly wages, suspect says : The November 17 terrorist group operated on two levels...

Draft bill to protect health details : Legislation to be tabled in Parliament this month foresees...

Crime spree : A 39-year-old teacher and a 54-year-old taxi driver have been charged with...

Australian route cut : The umbrella union representing all Olympic Airways staff...

Store hours : Stores will be open until 8 p.m. daily and until 6 p.m. on Saturdays...

Forest fire : Firefighters yesterday morning managed to contain a forest blaze...

Immigrants : Chios port authorities yesterday detained 16 illegal found...

Cheaper electricity : Electricity will be available at a cheaper rate between the hours...

Bulgarian visits : Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg is due in Athens...


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EDITORIAL

Rose-tinted lenses The revised fiscal figures presented by the government after intervention by Eurostat, the EU's statistical service, confirm European warnings. The revision of the Greek numbers indeed turns surpluses into deficits, revealing that Greece's apparent success in containing the deficit and public debt was, to a considerable degree, the product of creative accounting rather than genuine reductions.

COMMENTARY

Things have come to a head We're only a few weeks ahead of the Copenhagen summit and things seem to have come to a head. The illness of Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and Turkey's looming elections have put the brakes on negotiations over a solution to the Cyprus dispute, which is in the process of being hammered out by US and EU officials.

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