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Strike action intensifies Trash collectors will picket for 8th straight day as rubbish covers Athens The country's largest union group, GSEE, decided yesterday to increase protest action against the government's tight spending policy by calling a new 24-hour strike while street cleaners will stay away from the job again today, for the eighth straight day.

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President blasts Balkan failings

Greek President Karolos Papoulias yesterday launched a stinging attack on the international community for the way it has treated the Balkans in recent years...

Greece to help Chinese students

Greece promised yesterday to send educational material and a language teacher to China to help the growing number of local students who are learning Greek...

Four tremors hit Zakynthos

Four earthquakes measuring up to 5.9 on the Richter scale shook the Ionian island of Zakynthos yesterday...

A man looks at the trunk...

A man looks at the trunk of a centuries-old tree outside a police station in the Cypriot resort...

Claim that Tsalikidis was killed

A mystery man who has allegedly been providing information about the circumstances surrounding the death of Vodafone software engineer...

Smell of student skunk attracts drugs squad

Two university students were arrested in Athens yesterday after police raided their home...

IN BRIEF

Staff in public sector to walk out for three hours over pay and conditions : Staff at public hospitals around Greece will stage a three-hour work stoppage...

Plans to build dump in Grammatiko sparks anger of local community : Tens of people blocked the entrance to the offices of the Attica Regional Authority...

Vandals destroy meters in Hania : Vandals in Hania, Crete, destroyed 29 parking meters by injecting...

Illegal immigrants : Port authorities in Patras arrested a 50-year-old drive...

Shoe fire : A fire at a shoe factory in western Thessaloniki early yesterday caused about 200,000 euros in damages...

Doctors probed : Panayiota Hadzopoulou, the head of the Northern Aegean Health Authority, yesterday ordered...

Easter warnings : The Consumers' Protection Center (KEPKA) yesterday reminded consumers...

Car chase : A involving two stolen sports utility vehicles on the Greek-Albanian border...

Food confiscated : Piraeus prefectural authorities said yesterday that they confiscated 600 kilos of imported lambs...


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EDITORIAL

Playing games with public health A part from creating a citywide eyesore, the ongoing strike action by municipal garbage collectors has also infected the very air we breathe, posing a risk to public health. The protesters' demand that their profession be classified as potentially hazardous for their health and safety is hardly illogical. Their job is indeed difficult and even risky at times. But this is only one side of the coin.

COMMENTARY

Battles in absence of voters Making an impression has always been important in politics, yet rhetorical skill, a successful witticism or an occasional mistake has never decided the outcome of a political battle. So one might wonder why the New Democracy-PASOK battle over fundamental political and social issues such as labor and social security laws has focused on statements by PASOK's former spokesman for economic affairs, Giorgos Floridis, about the «Scandinavian model» for the economy.

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