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Police gas ‘mutineers’ Riot squad moves in against colleagues in central Athens protest Cop fought cop early yesterday, as riot police used tear gas against protesting police, firefighters and coast guards who had blocked access to the Economy Ministry off Syntagma Square.

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Cyprus exercises canceled, yet again

ANTALYA (AP) - Turkey and Greece announced yesterday that they were canceling scheduled military maneuvers near the divided island of Cyprus in the spirit of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Anarchists raid media offices

In two concerted operations in northern Greece and Crete yesterday, dozens of anarchists invaded a radio station and a state news agency to demand the release of seven people held over June's anti-globalization riots in Thessaloniki.

EU drive to protect Mediterranean fish

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's fisheries chief unveiled a plan yesterday to prevent the extinction of Mediterranean marine species including swordfish and octopus, already at dangerously low levels due to years of overfishing.

Acropolis walkway off limits to fairs, festivals

In the wake of damage wreaked over the past month by a book show and a political party festival on the one-year-old pedestrian route under the Acropolis, the government said yesterday it would ban such events from the walkway.

IN BRIEF

Strong winds uproot trees in Attica, buffet boats and ferries in the Aegean : Strong winds late on Wednesday night, which reached 9 Beaufort in the Aegean...

Former Synaspismos leader resigns seat, leaves party : Synaspismos Left Coalition MP Maria Damanaki yesterday announced that she was leaving the party...

Two A7 pilots safely ejected : The two pilots of an A7 Corsair fighter bomber aircraft, which crashed...

SARS alert : A 38-year-old Chinese meteorologist, who was taken to Athens’s General Air Force Hospital...

Olympic protest : Work at the Olympic Village in the suburb of Menidi, north of Athens, stopped yesterday...

Vandalism : A monument to Jewish holocaust victims in Ioannina has been desecrated...

Teacher sentenced : A Drama court has given an eight-month suspended sentence...

Free orthodentistry : The Social Security Foundation (IKA) said yesterday that it would be able to provide free orthodentistry...

Academias buses : A new bus route connecting central Athens with the coastal suburbs is to start operating today...


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Illegal walls come down
EDITORIAL

Reaping whirlwinds Yesterday's buildup of demonstrations by strikers that completely blocked traffic and distressed thousands of motorists traveling to the city center was not the worst, but definitely one of the worst such days in recent months. The protest rallies by men and women in uniform (police officers, firefighters and port officials), taxi drivers, statistical service employees, nurses and other workers caused massive traffic jams, paralyzing the center of the capital.

COMMENTARY

Omonia under pressure The Albanian government has once again set out to restrict the turnout for the ethnic Greek KEAD-Omonia party at Sunday's municipal elections. It insists on this policy despite the fact that KEAD-Omonia is part of the ruling coalition led by the Socialists. And in closed societies like Albania, including its southern part that contains an ethnic Greek minority, blackmail and threats rarely fail to take effect.

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