ekathimerini.com | Internet Edition/Front Page

Exclusively available inside The International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus

Friday July 14, 2006 - Archive

Current Edition | Athens Stock Exchange | Useful Information | Greek Edition | Site Search

Search

Home page

ENGLISH EDITION

Date

14/07/2006

- Frontpage

- News

- Commentaries

- S/E Europe

- Features

- Sports

RSS

TOP STORY
Acheloos causes division Plans to divert river meet with anger in western Greece, approval in Thessaly The controversial decision by the government to persist with the diversion of Greece's second-longest river appears to have pitted the two communities that will be affected by the project against each other as more protests against the scheme were held in western Greece yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Lebanon escalation triggers concern

As Greece expressed «serious concern» over the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it is on standby and ready to evacuate any of the 2,500 Greeks in the country.

Cool air becomes a hot topic

Environmentalists and government officials pleaded with people yesterday to use their air conditioners in moderation because public utilities services are struggling to power the 350,000 new cooling units installed annually.

Authorities ‘handling’ ferry snags

The government stressed yesterday that it has taken all the necessary measures to tackle a spate of engine problems that have caused delays in coastal shipping as the number of people leaving Piraeus and other ports for island holidays rises dramatically.

Ex-soldier posts secrets on Net

A 31-year-old man was arrested in Athens yesterday after he posted on the Internet classified military information he obtained while serving as a conscript in the army, police said.

A squirrel monkey...

A squirrel monkey looks through a fence yesterday at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata in eastern Attica.

One in two will see out summer at home

About one in two Greeks will not go on holiday this summer due to financial restrictions, while many that manage to hit the beaches will do so for fewer days than last year, according to the results of a poll released yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Panel of experts to examine decision to hold back information : Parliament Speaker Anna Psarouda-Benaki decided yesterday that a panel of legal experts will examine the decision by the National Intelligence Agency...

No clues found from search for boy on banks of river near Veria : Police investigating the disappearance of 11-year-old Alex Meshivili in Veria, northern Greece, yesterday found no new clues...

Probe into hirings at Elpis hospital : Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos yesterday ordered a sworn investigation into the hiring of personnel at the Elpis hospital...

Deadly fire : Firefighters said that they uncovered a burned body in an apartment in Omonia, central Athens, which caught fire early yesterday...

Kolonaki robbery : Two armed men held up a branch of National Bank in Kolonaki, central Athens, shortly before 11 a.m. yesterday...

Truck found : Police yesterday located a truck used by a gang of five men in the robbery of an arms store on Wednesday in Menidi...

Briton drowns : A 77-year-old British man drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming at Marathi beach near Hania in Crete...

Extra ferry : The Merchant Marine Ministry said yesterday that it had decided to ask for an to run on Saturday to meet «urgent needs» in the western Cycladic islands...

Cannabis arrests : Police arrested two men, both Albanian nationals, in the area of Filiata on the Greek-Albanian border yesterday after finding in their possession 5 kilos of cannabis...


[ Reload ]
[ Front Page ] [ News ] [ Commentaries ] [ S/E Europe ] [ Features ] [ Business & Finance ] [ Arts & Leisure ] [ Sports ]
[ Subscriptions ] [ Editor ] [ Webmaster ]


Street traders gathered...
EDITORIAL

Slipshod lawmaking The odyssey of the banks' social security funds is just one example of the inadequate legislative preparation that characterizes everything the government tries to institute. Already two laws have been passed, but the presidential decrees required to implement them have been delayed by the Council of State. There are other examples: Recently there was the case of the sports minister's law on soccer clubs.

COMMENTARY

The arrogance of power The developments we have witnessed in Gaza and Lebanon over the past few days merely serve to confirm, in the most dramatic fashion, that the maxim «might is right» still applies. It has become quite clear that Israel is much more than a small state armed to the teeth. Not even the US enjoys such tolerance. The governments of the West and those who shape its public opinion are, as a rule, extremely cautious in their criticism of Tel Aviv. Evidently this is not merely due to the legacy of the Holocaust. It is also attributable to the creation of an entire industry of ideological terrorism and to the exploitation of the Holocaust for political ends, which insults the memory of the victims.

English Edition - Greece's International English Language Newspaper
Exclusively available inside The International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus