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Ongoing strife dashes gov’t hopes Violence eases but anger unabated; forensic and ballistics tests cast doubt on officer’s self-defense claim Pupils staged protests across Attica yesterday as self-styled anarchists clashed with police in the capital, defying assertions by government officials that tensions were easing.

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Internet spreads Greek protests

Outraged protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks, in an alarming indication that the unrest that has gripped Greece...

Bid to shield universities

The dean of the prestigious Athens University yesterday appealed to fellow academics to back him in an initiative to protect university buildings from would-be vandals...

Sacred Rock shut due to temporal demands

The ancient site of the Acropolis and the Parthenon remained closed to visitors for the third consecutive day yesterday as Culture Ministry staff continued their strike...

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Competition watchdog wants backing from MPs in its probes : The president of Greece's Competition Commission, Spyros Zisimopoulos, pleaded...

Angry seamen occupy ship : A passenger ferry that had been due to take 200 passengers to Chios and Lesvos...

Sea Diamond : Merchant Marine Minister Anastassis Papaligouras is today due to meet the mayor of Santorini...

Drug haul : Police in northern Greece yesterday were questioning three Greeks...

Vessels docked : High-speed vessels serving routes to islands in the Argosaronic Gulf remained moored...

Farmers demonstrate : Farmers yesterday continued to block the national highway at the Halkidona junction...

The right track : The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) is to enlist the services of a French firm...


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EDITORIAL

Media fail to deliver True to form the local media - particularly the electronic media - have failed to deliver at a very crucial time for the country. Populism, blanket oversimplifications, stereotypes and melodramatic cliches have once again become the rule in the coverage of the recent dramatic events. The thin line separating objective reporting from TV-based prosecuting has been crossed repeatedly.

COMMENTARY

SYRIZA on a slippery slope The chief of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alekos Alavanos, has been a guest on one TV station after another since Monday night, when he left the protest rally he himself had organized. On Wednesday evening he was on Mega, ranting nonsensically about young people being angry at banks for lending money at interest rates double the legal limits. Does this mean that he excuses the fact that many youths torched banks across the country?

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Veil of illusions lifted For years we feared that the dangerous game between anti-establishment youths and police would lead to someone being killed. But even so, when the dreadful event did occur, no one could have predicted how terrible it would be nor how it would shake Greece to its core. The murder was not committed in the heat of battle between anarchists and riot police, where it could somehow be explained as a predictable accident.

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