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Coach denies doping Greek weightlifters Iakovou blames Chinese company Suspended national weightlifting coach Christos Iakovou yesterday protested his innocence, insisting that he did not knowingly give 11 weightlifters banned substances.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Call to fight for Parnitha forest

As the charred remains of the Mount Parnitha forest attempt to recover from last year's devastating summer fires...

Longer metro hours approved

The extension of the metro and Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway's operating hours on weekends will become a permanent...

Bill to speed up adoptions

Adopting a child in Greece will become a swifter and less bureaucratic process, according to a draft law whose basic provisions were outlined...

Parthenon restoration up a gear

The restoration of the pollution-ravaged friezes of the Parthenon is set to gather pace, with the removal of a further 17 metopes...

Mentally ill mother kept family penned in

Authorities said yesterday they are treating two adults, a brother and sister, after their mentally ill mother forced them to live...

IN BRIEF

US official calls for swift solution as Athens repeats appeal to Skopje : The US ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland...

Asopos River has contaminated water in nearby areas, new study shows : Toxic pollution from the Asopos River...

Operations up 50 percent this year : The number of transplant operations performed in Greece...

Hidden heroin : In one of the biggest heroin hauls to ever take place in Greece...

Suicide : A 32-year-old Albanian man committed yesterday...

Carnivores : Greeks have a keen appetite for meat...

Migrant reception : Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos defended Greece's treatment...

Card racket : Police arrested three foreign nationals in Tempi...


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Student elections... University students waiting yesterday outside a polling station in Thessaloniki...

EDITORIAL

Symbolic message conveys eco-hope President Karolos Papoulias's visit to fire-ravaged Mount Parnitha has demonstrated that there is indeed some concern being shown on the part of the state about Greece's major ecological problems. If nothing else, we know that the head of state cares and citizens must now just hope that this interest trickles down through the rest of the state apparatus. Papoulias's visit could be interpreted as sending a symbolic message to the government, which the people of Greece have been trying to send for years: «Take a serious interest in the environment.

COMMENTARY

Giving it a bad name Greek diplomats at the NATO summit in Bucharest have pulled off the hard part: Solving the Macedonia name dispute is now a NATO condition for FYROM's membership of the alliance. Athens meets the political and institutional requirements to impose an honest settlement that reflects reality on the ground. But that does not necessarily mean it will do so. In reality, things could turn messy. The reason is that many conservative officials are taking a superficial approach to the issue.

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