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Ports up for facelift 3-bln-euro loan secured to improve mainland links with islands At a time when ferry companies are threatening to slash passenger routes to the islands due to financial problems, the government announced yesterday a 3-billion-euro makeover of Greece's ports in a move aimed at strengthening the country's links with its scattered archipelago.

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Labor reform talks reach a dead end

Talks between Labor Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos and unions over labor reforms reached the end of the line yesterday, with union bosses threatening to derail the process...

TV news favors Athens and Thessaloniki over regions

Viewers of television news broadcasts are well informed about what is going on in Greece's two largest cities, at the likely expense of the rest of the country...

Brussels tells Greece to keep noise down

Noise-plagued Athenians may be able to look forward to some respite after the European Commission warned Greece, and another 10 EU states, to reduce the din in crowded cities....

Athens’s scorching sun failed...

Athens's scorching sun failed to deter members of a comedy troupe from promoting their production...

Souflias in Maliakos road rage

Two days after nine people were killed in a pileup on a notorious section of the Athens-to-Thessaloniki highway, Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias yesterday blasted critics...

IN BRIEF

Greek bus driver taken into hiding by police as key witness : The Greek driver of the bus blown up in one of the London attacks...

One lucky winner to walk away with 11 million euros in prize money : After repeated attempts in previous weeks failed to find a winner...

Gas stations fined 1 million euros : Authorities yesterday imposed 973,509 euros' worth of fines...

Medicine : Greeks spent some 2.1 billion euros on medicines in 2003, according...

Drowned girl : Bathers retrieved the body of a drowned six-year-old girl off Vouliagmeni Bay...

Security Council : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis is due to address the UN Security Council...

Hashed attempt : A 47-year-old man who tried to pay off his bar bill with a cigarette...

Sales ditch : Deputy Development Minister Yiannis Papathanassiou yesterday referred...

Bomb explosion : A homemade bomb exploded in Petralona, Athens, late on Sunday night...

Smoking guns : Three armed men held up a cigarette wholesaler in Kolonos...


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EDITORIAL

Greater police presence needed The deadly four-car pileup in the Alamana region in central Greece on Saturday, which occurred after a car attempted to pass in risky conditions, once again underscored the relative absence of traffic policemen along the national highways and the streets of Athens and other cities. Outside Athens, one can drive for hundreds of kilometers and not come across a single police car or motorbike.

COMMENTARY

False pledges Deprivation, poverty, lack of democracy and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are terrorism's underlying causes. Who is speaking here - in a language that, despite its generalizations, drills to the heart of the matter? Is it perhaps the representative of some human rights organization? Is it the UN secretary-general? Is it Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky or Tariq Ali? It is none of these. The diagnosis belongs to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, host of the G8...

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