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An amateur firefighter...
An amateur firefighter douses the embers of a large blaze that broke out in Gytheion, south of Sparta in the Peloponnese, yesterday afternoon. Earlier in the day, three water-dropping aircraft were dispatched to aid the efforts of firefighters on the ground... |
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Siemens must face the music
Inaction has it limits and, after a certain point, the only remedy is persistence.
The demand of Greek citizens for the government to account for every last cent that came from Siemens, not for commissions but for payoffs, is a persistent one.
We already have admissions from certain executives but also from the company itself. And we also have the precedent of several other countries that are either investigating such charges or have already moved to impose stiff fines. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Urban lab
The growing desperation with which Athenians watch their surrounding mountains for any sign of smoke is an indication of how degraded life in the capital has become. A year ago, most of the pine and fir forest on Mount Parnitha was destroyed by a fire that started on the other side of the mountain and, through incompetence and mixed signals on the part of the authorities, was allowed to rage out of control. This year, on June 26, a fire broke out in the lush pine forest on the northeastern slopes of Mount Hymettus, among the last bits of a major reforestry project carried out largely by volunteers after World War II, during which the mountain was denuded by Athenians searching for firewood. |
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