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‘Convictions needed’ Miller says there is a long way to go before eradicating terrorism With 15,000 policemen hot on the trail of fugitive terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, the fight against terrorism is far from over and may contain some surprises, US Ambassador to Greece Thomas Miller warned in an interview published yesterday.

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Kos officers disciplined for negligence

Six days after a batch of machine guns, rifles and handguns were found to have been stolen from an army unit on the border island of Kos...

Music among the moonlit ruins

For the fourth year running, over 50 of Greece's archaeological sites - including major crowd-pullers such as the Acropolis...

On terror suspects’ privacy

By focusing on intimate details regarding suspected November 17 terrorists, Greek media have committed serious breaches...

PAOK fans beg for Khadafy aid

THESSALONIKI (AP) - The main fan club of PAOK Thessaloniki has begged Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy «to be the savior of our souls»...

Farmer claims UFO landed in his field

Residents of the village of Prini, near the town of Trikala in central Greece, claim an unidentified flying object landed in a nearby field...

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Drunken driving, speeding checks begin today, traffic authorities say : Traffic police squads will be stationed in 17 key spots across Attica...

Police arrest two men thought to be behind brutal Kavala killing : Police yesterday arrested two men they suspect were involved...

20-day trip exhausts Iraqis, Afghans A group of 94 severely dehydrated immigrants...

Forest fires Dozens of firefighters yesterday morning finally extinguished...

Queen petitioned A Cypriot MP has sought the intervention of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II...

Editors jailed A Turkish-Cypriot court yesterday handed down six-month jail sentences...

Errant aircraft Hundreds of British tourists, stranded in the Cypriot town of Paphos...


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Mirela Manjani won the gold medal...
EDITORIAL

Lightheartedness If, as Yiannos Papantoniou said, the arms heist from a guard barracks on the island of Kos was an unacceptable albeit isolated incident which cannot tarnish the image of the military; and if, as he also said, he wished to avoid making any political comment on the investigation and the circumstances under which the theft took place so as not to distract police inquiry...

COMMENTARY

Scenarios examined The theft of weapons from the Kos military compound undoubtedly came at a very bad moment for the government. When it had almost convinced the public that «November 17 is in Korydallos» (except for Dimitris Koufodinas), the publication of the first proclamation and, above all, the weapons heist fueled doubts and public mistrust.

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