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Health costs targeted PM to oversee interministerial committee to curb wasteful spending Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is to personally oversee a new interministerial committee - bringing together the economy, health and employment ministries - which aims to drastically curb wasteful spending in the health sector, it was revealed yesterday.

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Strikes aimed at sell-off of OTE

Thousands of workers marched though central Athens yesterday to express their opposition to the government's privatization plans...

Tension rising at universities

University professors and lecturers are planning to form crisis teams to prevent students from interrupting next week's elections...

Three dead in mafia-style hit

Three armed men, believed to be Albanians, burst into a cafe in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas late on Wednesday night...

Town plan changes in offing

Public Works and Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias said yesterday...

Enormous contraband smokes haul off Icaria

The coast guard discovered more than 36 tons kilos of cigarettes stashed on a ship...

IN BRIEF

High school teachers unhappy with curriculum material, survey shows : Many high school teachers are unimpressed...

US says talks with Greece have stalled after draft pact pullout : Negotiations to allow Greek citizens to travel to the US...

Suspect retailers may be closed down : The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) is examining shutting down businesses...

Price protest : The Consumer Institute (INKA) called on consumers to boycott the Greek market...

Worthless degrees : Authorities have recommended to the Education Ministry...

Power play : Appeals prosecutor Christos Markoyiannakis yesterday recommended...

Scapegoat defense : Former judge Constantina Bourboulia took the stand yesterday...

Embezzler jailed : A former employee of the Theagenio Hospital in Thessaloniki...


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‘Odyssey of Caretta Caretta’... A sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is released into the wild at Gerakas beach...

EDITORIAL

A wake-up call for the police force We may be disgusted and frightened, but we shouldn't be surprised at the triple homicide that took place near the Aghios Panteleimonas police station. Nearly everyone feels that there is not enough policing in the country, be it for small infringements or organized gang wars. It is only natural that we should be witnessing such crimes when police officers are stuck behind desks at their local stations doing paperwork and other menial tasks.

COMMENTARY

Mineral oil in land of the olive Although many jokes have been made about the sunflower oil contamination scandal, it is no laughing matter. It is not even an isolated incident, because along with the contaminated oil from Ukraine, we are also seeing large quantities of sunflower oil from Belgium - the heart of the European Union - being withdrawn from the market for being «potentially dangerous.» There is only one conclusion to be drawn from this chain of mishaps: The cycle of trade, distribution and manufacture is governed by criminal indifference and incompetence.

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