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Greece calls EU summit Extraordinary EU meeting on Monday over Iraq crisis; FMs to precede As the rift between the United States and many European countries threatened to rocket out of control, dividing both NATO and the EU, Prime Minister Costas Simitis yesterday called an extraordinary summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Monday. Greece holds the EU's rotating presidency and has been battling to get the Union to present a common front.

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Push for Kokkalis probe to speed up

Greece's top prosecutor yesterday ordered that documents revealed by Kathimerini on Sunday be included in an ongoing investigation into allegations that telecommunications tycoon Socrates Kokkalis was a spy...

Roads will take years to mend

As Supreme Court prosecutor Evangelos Kroustallakis yesterday ordered an investigation into what caused the weekend collapse of a section of the main highway spanning the Peloponnese from north to south...

Traces of Persians’ lost fleet?

Two 2,500-year-old bronze helmets caught in a fisherman's nets off the western coast of Mt Athos may have belonged to soldiers in a Persian fleet shipwrecked in the area in 492 BC...

Drug tests for Athens drivers

In the wake of a largely successful bid to crack down on drunk driving with a vast increase in breathalyzer tests, Athens traffic police now propose to go one step further, targeting motorists on drugs.

Another four prisoners in close narcotic shave

Four men held in Greece's largest prison pending trial for drugs offenses were hospitalized yesterday following suspected consumption of heroin and anti-depressant pills.

IN BRIEF

Suspects of each group to exercise in the same yard, prison decides : All 17 jailed male suspects of the November 17 terrorist group will henceforth share the same outdoor exercise area...

Roadblocks stop after minister says all plants will accept all cotton : Thessaly cotton farmers yesterday ended four days of roadblocks...

Traders must change them again : Traders will be obliged to change the way they display their prices for the second time...

Mission on hold : Foreign Minister George Papandreou’s mission this week to North and South Korea has been postponed...

Religious dialogue : A high-ranking delegation of Roman Catholic clerics was due to arrive in Athens...

Fire deaths : A man from the northern village of Polykastro, in Kilkis, yesterday discovered both his parents dead...

Police violence : A prosecutor yesterday launched an investigation into the alleged beating of an AEK soccer fan...

Cyprus talks : UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to visit Athens...

Inflation down : Inflation dropped 0.3 percent to 3.1 percent last month...

Roadworks : Drivers on coastal Poseidonos Ave will face disruptions...


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EDITORIAL

Alliance hits storm Washington's plans for a showdown in Iraq - which are being carried out with an eye on Baghdad's huge oil resources - has thrown the relationship between the biggest EU states and the USA into turmoil. After the serious crisis caused by the transatlantic rift within the European Union (with the much discussed move by the «gang of eight» and the subsequent pledge by 10 small, former communist countries to back the USA on Iraq), NATO has hit a similar storm itself.

COMMENTARY

‘The game is over’ George W. Bush is by no means a masterly orator. Although time and practice have helped the American president to cut down on his «bushisms» - a term coined by the president's fellow-Americans to describe his slip-ups in speech - and despite the fact that he has reached an elementary standard of spontaneous rhetoric, Bush's discourse remains problematic, sanctioned only by his huge political leverage. Though Bush remains a poor orator, he nevertheless is a terrifying one.

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