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New wave of strikes hits Truckers to decide today whether to end action that caused fuel shortage Another surge of strikes is gathering pace across the country as tanker truck owners are due to meet today to decide whether to continue with action that has caused a severe shortage of fuel across the country.

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Inflation in sights of party leaders

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday asked the business world to help combat inflation...

Greek swimmer fails doping test

The Greek sporting scene has been hit by a second drugs scandal in the space of a few weeks after it emerged yesterday...

Thalassemia units lack staff

Thousands of Greeks suffering from thalassemia - a type of anemia affecting people of Mediterranean descent...

Souflias set for zoning plan turn

Environment and Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias is today expected to open up a controversial land-zoning plan...

Hania almost gets a blast from the past

Workers digging a hole to lay sewage pipes at a busy square in the Cretan city of Hania came across...

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Resolving name dispute will be 'main goal' of FYROM's new government : The president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Several more domestic flights canceled as pilots continue strike : Eight Olympic Airlines flights were canceled...

Three more suspect brands withdrawn : Three more brands of sunflower oil were withdrawn from the market...

Unholy angler : A 48-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki's Neapoli area...

Receptionist disciplined : A telephone receptionist for the Greek police's emergency service...

China aid : Greece yesterday pledged an immediate payment of 200,000 euros in aid to China...

Kouyias disbarred : The Athens Bar Association (ABA) yesterday disbarred...

Violent teacher? : A secondary school teacher in Trikala yesterday defended himself...

Promotions on offer : Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos said yesterday...

KEP problems : Several Citizens' Service Centers (KEP) were not operating yesterday...


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Four-day visit and talks... The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (left), arrived in Greece...

EDITORIAL

Patients paying for health sector woes Back in 2004, the ruling New Democracy conservative party pledged to accelerate the recruitment of nursing staff for the country's state hospitals. In 2006, the current health minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos, pledged to reform ASEP, the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection, in order to remedy some of the shortcomings in the country's disjointed health sector. However Greece's state clinics still barely have enough staff.

COMMENTARY

Lessons of history It is incredible how a conversation about events that took place in 1965 can be as heated as a disagreement on something that happened today. History stirs Greeks' passions and drags them into arguments. The most recent example is the furor over comments made by former Premier Constantine Mitsotakis about that period. The interesting thing is that we think we have a firm grasp of the history of that stormy decade, when in fact all we know are stereotypes and cliches.

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