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Olympic test ‘a success’ but blunder-prone Hotel suspected over salmonella bug The second test event for the Athens Olympics and the first this year - the World Junior Rowing Championships at Schinias, northeast of Athens - was given a thumbs-up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) upon completion on Saturday, despite the high winds which affected competition.

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Cyprus deal is ‘empty of content’

Criticism of the so-called «framework agreement» for an eventual customs union between Turkey and the self-styled «Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus» mounted this weekend, with Greek, Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot politicians joining in.

Shaky start to exiles’ return

Greece opened its borders yesterday to a small group of native Greeks resident in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) who have been banned from the country for 20 years in a lingering echo of decades-old ethnic and political tensions.

Economy fails to keep pace

Despite its high economic growth and high inflows from the European Union, Greece's economy is falling behind its European partners, both in disposable income and overall competitiveness.

Contentious property suits

While Nicosia will not try to dissuade Greek Cypriots from tabling lawsuits in the Turkish-occupied north to reclaim lost property, such an approach will severely damage national interests, the government said yesterday.

Serres father held for baby’s bloody killing

A young man from the northern town of Serres was arrested yesterday on suspicion of having slaughtered his infant son with a carving knife in a frenzied attack during which the baby's heart was torn out. Police said Constantinos Antikoglou, 21, who is to be charged today, confessed to having killed the two-month-old boy in the family's central Serres flat...

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Seventeen Turkish sailors saved as freighter founders off Peloponnese : A Malta-flagged freighter sank off the western Peloponnese on Saturday, but all 17 officers and crew aboard managed to evacuate...

As Albanian workers head home, traffic jams form at Kakavia : Hundreds of cars and buses formed long queues on Saturday at the Kakavia border crossing in Epirus...

Two die in fierce storms : Two people were killed by lightning in northern Greece yesterday during sudden violent storms that struck most of the country...

Kosovo Gypsies : After spending over three months in a tent city on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s side of the border with Greece, some 600 Gypsies from Kosovo started striking camp...

No funeral : Novelist and poet Antonis Samarakis, who died of a heart attack on Friday aged 84, has donated his body to medical research...

Rogue speedboat : Coast guards off the southern coast of Athens had to fire bursts of shots to stop an empty rubber dinghy that was heading at top speed for a flotilla of sailing boats...

Plane crashes : A private light aircraft crashed during landing near an airfield in northern Greece on Saturday...

Shop raid : A Thessaloniki tobacconist was shot in the leg by two men armed with a shotgun who burgled his shop early on Saturday...

Road deaths : Three people were killed early on Saturday near Kalpaki, in northern Greece, when a small truck crashed into a car...


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EDITORIAL

Hope for the future Sewage treatment plants are the hope for the future of the Greek environment. Since the early 1990s - and even shortly before then - when their installation began here following pressure from the European Union, tens of billions of drachmas from national and EU sources have been spent on building these plants around the country.

COMMENTARY

A revealing confrontation The confrontation between Premier Costas Simitis and former Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos on the issue of deputies' declaration of their assets and an audit of their stock market dealings is quite revealing of each of their personalities and, particularly, of the anxious attempt by the Maximos Mansion to assert full control over domestic political developments in general.

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