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Cabinet ratifies couples bill Cohabitation law would only apply to heterosexuals, justice minister says A proposed cohabitation law that would grant heterosexual couples living together the same rights as married couples was approved yesterday by the Inner Cabinet, paving the way for its submission in Parliament.

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Simitis set to stir up PASOK once more

PASOK looks set for a new round of high-level infighting after former Prime Minister and current PASOK MP Costas Simitis wrote yesterday to the party's current leader George Papandreou to complain about his stance on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.

Defeat puts Greece on back foot

Greece's hopes of defending its European soccer title took a severe dent on Tuesday night when the national side lost 2-0 to Sweden in its opening game at Euro 2008 in Austria, but the players promised yesterday that they would try to turn things around.

Piraeus poised for blockade

Thousands of people intending to travel to an island for the upcoming long weekend could have their plans upset after Piraeus Mayor Panayiotis Fassoulas said yesterday that he would go ahead with plans to block the port tomorrow.

Former US President...

Former US President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara visited the Maximos Mansion yesterday to meet with...

Missing brothers found dead in well

The bodies of two brothers, aged 44 and 47, who disappeared from Metamorphosis, northern Athens, on Monday after going to a local cafe to watch a soccer match, were found yesterday at the bottom of a well on Dionysiou Avenue in the northern suburb of Dionysos.

IN BRIEF

Mild aftershocks jar villages : ruined Patras hospital emptied : As the post-quake cleanup of damaged homes and infrastructure got under way...

Masked youths trash three guardhouses in Thessaloniki : A group of around 30 masked youths attacked three guardhouses outside Thessaloniki's Aristotle University...

FM asks Ankara to make move : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis yesterday appealed to Ankara to take «specific steps»...

Anastassiadis called : TV presenter Themos Anastassiadis, who last year allegedly gave a government representative...

Driving licenses : Some 60,000 new - in the more compact, credit card style common in other European countries...

Hash haul : Police yesterday arrested two Albanians following inspections on a car near the Albanian border...

Imported meat : State veterinarians in Larissa yesterday reported two suspected instances of illegal lamb imports...

Train derails : A commercial train from Austria derailed upon entering the station at Livadeia, north of Athens...

Court strike : Court employees across Greece will go on strike today and tomorrow...

Bridge building : A group of Israeli and Palestinian deputies yesterday began talks on the island of Rhodes...


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After a meeting of the Inner Cabinet... Public Works and Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias briefing journalists yesterday after a meeting of the Inner Cabinet. Souflias insisted that a scheme to create Greece's first comprehensive land registry would start as planned on Tuesday, despite a planned strike by property record office employees.

EDITORIAL

Protests, but not at any cost We don't know who is responsible for the finances of the Municipality of Piraeus, but the way the mayor is opting to stage a protest - by closing the ferry port tomorrow - is the worst possible way to go about it. He is punishing all those people around the entire country who will not be able to travel by sea, especially on a long weekend such as the one that is coming up. The people who will be tested and affected most by this protest are in no way responsible for any problems the municipality in question might be facing.

COMMENTARY

Athens must stay the course The election reruns in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will take place on Sunday but the balance of power in parliament will only be slightly, if at all, affected. The fact that the USA wants to bring FYROM into NATO as soon as possible is a motive that can help UN special mediator Matthew Nimetz's task over the name dispute. Athens is not the biggest obstacle. Although it has the political advantage, it has already accepted an equitable settlement. The same, however, cannot be said of FYROM President Nikola Gruevski.

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