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Paralympic Flame lit Countdown for September 17-28 Games starts with Attica relay The flame for the September 17-28 Paralympic Games was lit in Athens yesterday evening in a ceremony appositely held under an excellently preserved, 2,500-year-old temple dedicated to the only god in the ancient Greek pantheon to suffer from some form of physical disability.

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Ecological catastrophe hits lake

Thousands of waterfowl have been found dead in the northern Lake Koroneia, according to the latest estimates yesterday, which turned what had appeared to be a small-scale outbreak into a major ecological disaster in one of Greece's most endangered bird habitats.

First-home buyers to get boost

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is expected to announce this weekend that property tax levels will be changed to favor buyers and the government yesterday revealed plans to boost the public housing market.

Embassy staff hurt in Jakarta

Athens strongly condemned yesterday's terrorist car bomb attack outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, and very close to the Greek Embassy in the Indonesian capital, which killed nine people and wounded over 160.

Poll: Games visitors left venues happy

Hardly any spectators left Olympic venues during the Athens Games unhappy with the spectacle or the facilities, according to a survey released yesterday. Almost 95 percent of ticket-holders declared themselves «more or less» or «totally» satisfied with what they had seen, a poll of 5,028 Greek and foreign spectators by MRB Hellas, VPRC and Research Intl found.

IN BRIEF

Turkish jets active in the Aegean for third time in under a week : Six formations of Turkish fighter jets yesterday entered the Athens Flight Information Region...

Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in August despite Olympics-linked fears : Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent last month...

Sprinters' coach to testify on Monday : An Athens prosecutor investigating a doping scandal involving Greece's two top sprinters...

Forest fires : Firemen yesterday struggled to extinguish being fanned by strong winds...

Beslan children : One thousand children from Beslan in southern Russia...

Bonus hike : Greece's national soccer coach Otto Rehhagel is to receive a bonus the same size as that of the team players...

Worker death : A committee of officials from the Public Power Corporation's (PPC) management and staff is to investigate what caused the death...

Fatal pileup : Three German tourists were killed and four other people injured in a collision...

Sudanese deportations : The government has received no official complaint from Sudan...

Tractor death : Farmer Evangelos Goulios, 64, was crushed to death yesterday...


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EDITORIAL

Lake of death The mass deaths of birds at Lake Koroneia in the north of Greece, which initially had been treated by news broadcasts as a mysterious pathological phenomenon, is turning into a massive ecological disaster with incalculable consequences for rare and protected species. The grim toll up to the time of writing has been put at 2,383 dead birds, found on an expanse that only covers one-tenth of the lake. The total of dead birds will thus probably run to many thousands.

COMMENTARY

The bitter pill of recognition After his inopportune statement that recognition of Cyprus by Turkey is not a precondition for setting a starting date for accession talks, Guenter Verheugen had to back off and tell the Turks clearly they had to extend the existing customs agreement to include Cyprus. The Turks had excepted Cyprus, which they still do not recognize and continue to veto at a series of international organizations.

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