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Blackout shakes Olympic city Outage hits Athens and southern Greece; officials blame mismanagement, say Games will have power In a major embarrassment, Athens and most of southern Greece suffered one of the worst blackouts of the last 20 years yesterday, just a month and a day before the Greek capital hosts the Olympic Games.

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Transport network races to finish

Construction work on major infrastructure projects that were planned to help ease traffic before the Olympic Games is reaching completion...

Nicosia threatens to veto aid

Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iacovou yesterday urged his EU colleagues to delay for six months approval of a regulation allowing direct trade with the Turkish-Cypriot breakaway state...

Pakistan angry with Cypriots

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan yesterday reacted angrily to the deportation of 10 Pakistani students by Cypriot authorities...

Olympic Flame ‘burns’ cannabis plantation

Police in a helicopter that was providing aerial security for the Olympic Torch Relay on Crete spotted a small cannabis plantation...

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The capital's Olympic 'flying eye' makes first reconnaissance flight : A security blimp which will monitor the capital from the air during the Olympics yesterday carried out its first reconnaissance flight...

Minister discusses cooperation with Turkish police during Olympics : Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis yesterday began an official visit to Istanbul...

Blazes ravage three prefectures : Teams of firemen yesterday struggled to extinguish four blazes which broke out in the prefectures of Attica...

Parga quake : An undersea quake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale shook the western coastal town of Parga...

Media strike : There will be no newspapers available tomorrow and Thursday as journalists, printers and others involved in producing newspapers join a 48-hour strike...

ELA trial : Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) suspect Costas Agapiou yesterday denied any involvement in attacks...

Cypriots 'optimistic' : One-third of Greek Cypriots believe that their lives will have improved one year after Cyprus's accession to the European Union...

Patriarch visit : Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase yesterday visited Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios...


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EDITORIAL

Blackout jolt According to all available information, as well as an admission by Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas, yesterday's general blackout was not due to a lack of power but to mistaken calculations in the management of the system of high tension wires. As a result, although there was a power reserve of 800 MW, four Public Power Corporation (PPC) installations went out of action.

COMMENTARY

On being late During last weekend's heat wave doctors' recommendations were clear: don't go out in the heat and avoid doing heavy labor. But at Olympic venues, work continued. In the midday heat - and it was after all, formally a day of rest - workers kept going to complete plans dreamt up by technocrats and bureaucrats rivaling each other in the Olympic sport of long delays.

OPINION

First things first Following two electoral victories this year, New Democracy has no reason to worry about its future as a party, unlike opposition PASOK. That is not to say that ND's party convention - scheduled for July 23 - will not be of interest. Whether it will depends upon the ND leadership's goals and expectations. If ND rests content with using the convention to sort out a few administrative matters and make a few structural changes to certain party bodies, and if it is eager for a major debate on the party's relationship...

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