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Mayor warns of health risk from garbage Bank and power company employees extend protest ahead of general strike Authorities have warned of health risks from the massive rubbish piles gathering on Athens streets, as bank and power company employees decided yesterday to extend protest action opposing government pension reforms.

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PM defends green credentials

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis insisted yesterday that Greece is making good progress...

Fake aristocrat conned monks

A 36-year-old man who pretended to be an English aristocrat to ingratiate himself with a group of monks...

Authorities detain ship captain

Authorities have detained the captain of a tourist boat that ran aground off Poros, near Athens, on Thursday with more than 300 people on board.

Athens talks tough on FYROM

Athens upped the stakes yesterday in its name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) when Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis suggested...

Teenagers are taking risks in their sex lives

Greek teenagers are having sex at as young as 12 years old but more than half are not using proper methods of contraception...

IN BRIEF

Insurance firm fined for using records to deny coverage to gay man : Greece's privacy watchdog has fined...

Evangelos Venizelos adopts softer stance at party conference : PASOK MP Evangelos Venizelos pledged yesterday to put party unity above his personal ambitions...

Nikoloutsopoulos gets until Monday : Lawyer Christos Nikoloutsopoulos, a key witness in the alleged blackmail...

Museums shut : Greek museums and archaeological sites will be shut tomorrow...

Methoni earthquake : An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale...

Rubbish fires : Two overflowing rubbish bins caught fire in Thessaloniki overnight...

Crete resort : The Council of State did not hear this week the appeal...

Loan fraud : A construction magnate in northern Greece is under investigation...

Pirated CDs : Police arrested a couple in Thessaloniki in connection to thousands of pirated CDs and DVDs...


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EDITORIAL

Rescuing Greece’s image Just when a large number of Americans and Europeans were beginning to make their plans for their summer holidays, news networks across the globe were overwhelmed yesterday with the not-so-flattering images coming from this country. The passengers on an old cruise ship could be seen waiting in their purple life jackets to be evacuated from the vessel, which had run aground. At a time when Greece is trying to become a major tourist attraction for high-income US and EU holidaymakers...

COMMENTARY

Pulling the plug Public Power Corporation (PPC) unionists (GENOP) have been insisting that if PPC and the electric power transmission system operator DESMHE cut off electricity to industries, consumers would not have to suffer from the lengthy power outages of the last week.

OPINION

Outrageous behavior In July of 2005, I was returning to Greece from Albania at the Krystallopigi, Florina, border crossing at 2 a.m. Although Greek passport holders pass straight through, I waited in the line along with the Albanians for hours to be submitted to what is quite an ordeal.

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