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Quake cleanup begins amid aftershock fears Prefabricated homes set up for victims As villagers in the Peloponnese salvaged what they could yesterday from homes and businesses that collapsed in Sunday's 6.5-magnitude earthquake, Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos chaired an emergency meeting with local authority officials to distribute compensation and assess damage.

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New urgency on Siemens investigation

The investigation into claims that Siemens paid millions of euros in bribes to Greek politicians from the country's two main parties via its subsidiary in Athens may be set to intensify after the government yesterday asked the Supreme Court to intervene and speed up the process.

Price worries hit ND popularity

One in two Greeks believe that the high cost of living is the biggest problem faced by the country, according to a poll made public yesterday, just after figures showed that inflation in Greece reached 4.9 percent GDP last month - its highest level for a decade.

Probe witness in suicide bid

A lawyer who has been in custody since January following his implication in the alleged blackmail of former Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos was yesterday moved to the psychiatric unit of Korydallos Jail after trying to hang himself in his cell.

Speaker denies MPs set for Euro excursion

Parliamentary speaker Dimitris Sioufas issued a written statement yesterday denying reports that there are plans to fly Greek MPs at the expense of the state to Austria and Switzerland so they can watch the Euro 2008 soccer championship as Greece prepare to make their debut today.

IN BRIEF

UN's Nimetz invites Greek, FYROM envoys for new round : The United Nations mediator in the Macedonia name dispute, Matthew Nimetz, has invited mediators from Athens and Skopje...

Police bust racket in Ileia after alleged victim escapes : Police in Ileia said yesterday they had busted a prostitution ring...

Cretan boy, 11, shot in chest : A Cretan woman had to take her 11-year-old son to the hospital after a random gunshot caused him a minor chest injury...

Deadly heist : A 35-year-old man has been arrested in Petralona, southern Athens, on suspicion of being one of the two robbers...

Jewelry raid : Three men wearing hoods held up a jewelry shop in Glyfada...

Price protest : Greece's largest private workers' union, the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE), announced yesterday that it will be holding a rally...

Armed heist : Two armed robbers netted 18,000 euros in a raid on a bank in Thessaloniki yesterday...

Road accidents : A 51-year-old motorist and his 79-year-old father were killed...

Robbery ring : Police in Attica said yesterday that they had traced the culprits behind a series of robberies and burglaries...


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Otto can’t wait for Euro debut Greece manager Otto Rehhagel said yesterday that he is impatient for his team to make its debut at Euro 2008 against Sweden today. «We are happy that Euro 2008 begins for us as well,» he said at a press conference near Salzburg in Austria yesterday.

EDITORIAL

Volunteers are the real heroes In many occasions, disasters bring to the fore the best qualities in people. This has happened twice in the Peloponnesian prefectures of Achaia and Ileia when volunteers sprang into action to stand by earthquake victims this year and when they did exactly the same to come to the aid of wildfire victims last year. They are not just contributing with kind words. They are taking part in the multifaceted project to provide aid to those who need it.

COMMENTARY

When the body speaks For people who read body language, the slight yet noticeable crack in the smooth television persona of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was enough to tell them that the New Democracy MP is a lot more flustered than he let on in his explanatory (or apologetic) speech. Those who happened to hear his speech more than once will certainly have noticed that his tone remained unwavering throughout, as though he were reading from a well-prepared script. Furthermore, they will also have noticed that his main argument was the following, rather cynical, one: «I can assure you that if someone wants to do a politician a favor, there are many ways and one of them is surely not issuing invoices in their name.»

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