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Powell, troika to talk Papandreou hopes US official’s visit will reshape ties with EU Foreign Minister George Papandreou is to meet with US Secretary of State Colin Powell in Brussels tomorrow as the American official tries to mend fences with the EU and to bring it and NATO behind Washington in its war against Iraq.

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Bakoyianni confronts N17 suspect

Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni yesterday confronted in court a suspected top member of the November 17 terrorist group that assassinated her husband, conservative MP Pavlos Bakoyiannis, nearly 14 years ago in the city center.

Erdogan wants Cyprus talks

ANKARA (AFP) - The Turkish government confirmed yesterday it will initiate its own bid to reunify Cyprus, following the failure of a last-ditch UN effort, and called for talks with Greece next week to discuss the problem.

BSE results expected next week

The results of specialized laboratory tests in Britain on tissue samples from a cow suspected of having contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) before being slaughtered and its meat sold for consumption in northern Greece will not be available for at least a week, officials said yesterday.

Minister attacked for media Iraq advisory

Greece's largest journalists' union yesterday accused the government of trying to «nullify» the work of Greek war correspondents after Press Minister Christos Protopappas appealed last Friday for their return, on safety grounds, from Iraq. This drew a strong denial from Protopappas.

IN BRIEF

No cases of Asian killer virus in Greece, health officials say : There have been no outbreaks in Greece of an Asian killer strain of atypical pneumonia that has affected parts of Southeast Asia...

Minimal staff today and tomorrow for Iraq protest, union pay demands : State hospitals across the country will be operating on skeleton staff today and tomorrow as doctors, nurses and paramedics strike...

US sees abuse of migrants, Gypsies : Greece’s record in respecting its citizens’ rights last year was relatively good...

Earthquake trial : The first civil claimants’ trial against five senior officials of a pharmaceuticals factory...

EU Ombudsman : Greece’s outgoing Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, yesterday officially assumed his official duties...

Bank robbery : A gang of five armed robbers yesterday made off with 120,000 euros after raiding a bank just before noon...

Cycle race : An international round-country cycling race starts at 4 p.m. today in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia...

Lawyers protest : Athens lawyers are to join a work stoppage from noon until 3 p.m. tomorrow...


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EDITORIAL

Erdogan’s initiative A few weeks after UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's initiative was torpedoed by Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to initiate more diplomatic action on Cyprus. This is what seems to be behind his request to meet with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis on the sidelines of the Balkan meeting in Belgrade on April 9.

COMMENTARY

Blatant distortion The provocative decision by the Bush administration to attack Iraq has prompted many analysts at home and abroad to invoke the controversial presidential elections in 2000 in order to cast doubt on the public legitimacy of this war. US President George W. Bush is said to lack the strong and incontestable public mandate needed to launch war, as, for many Americans, he actually vote-rigged his way to the White House.

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