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Wind whips up brush fires Firefighters combat more than 100 blazes as gales blow across Greece Strong winds across Greece fanned more than 100 brush fires - some of which firefighters were still battling last night - and disrupted sea travel during one of the busiest times of the year for ferry companies.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Istanbul cancels Dalaras concert

A decision by authorities in Istanbul on Saturday to cancel at the last minute a concert by popular Greek singer George Dalaras, prompted the Foreign Ministry to accuse Turkish officials of looking for a «pretext» to call off the event.

Hospital staff warns of shortage

Budget cutbacks have resulted in about a third of staff positions being vacant at one of Greece's largest hospitals, the KAT Hospital in northern Athens's Kifissia, according to workers.

Man dies in fire at warehouse

A 21-year-old man was burned to death in a fire in a food warehouse in northern Greece early yesterday but firefighters managed to rescue three members of his family from the blaze.

Flexible Cyprus policy mooted

The head of Cyprus's AKEL party, Dimitris Christofias, told Sunday's Kathimerini that if elected president in February, he will provide a more «flexible» approach to reunification talks than current leader Tassos Papadopoulos.

A woman at the Aghios Constantinos and Eleni Cemetery...

A woman at the Aghios Constantinos and Eleni Cemetery in Nicosia stands by the graves of Cypriot soldiers killed...

Two feared dead in botched fishing trip

Authorities on the Dodecanese island of Leros spent the weekend trying to establish how many people were killed in a botched fishing expedition after the coast guard found at least one dismembered body aboard a drifting boat.

IN BRIEF

Man, 22, arrested for death of British soldier in Halkidiki accident : A 22-year-old man was arrested in Halkidiki...

Discount period begins today as shoppers are reminded of their rights : The official summer sales period begins in shops across Greece today...

Two injured in clash over woman : Two men are in the hospital, one in critical condition, and another two have been arrested after a fight...

Bank arsonists : Assailants smashed the windows of a branch of the National Bank...

Garbage protest : Employees from the waste collection and cleaning department of the Piraeus Municipality blocked the entrance to Piraeus's refuse center...

Migrant smuggler : A 32-year-old man was arrested on the outskirts of Thessaloniki...

Fatal stabbing : One Pakistani man was killed and another two injured during a fight in Aspropyrgos...


THIS WEEK

Monday : President Karolos Papoulias to meet with the visiting Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader at 11.30 a.m...

Tuesday : Synaspismos Left Coalition President Alekos Alavanos visits the island of Icaria...

Friday : German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Athens...

Saturday : Guards at the Acropolis begin a four-day strike, demanding permanent contracts and better pay...


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Tourists gaze at the Parthenon...
EDITORIAL

Enforcing the law The biggest flaw in Greece's environmental policy is the inability of the state to enforce its laws. Parliament makes laws but the executive branch of power behaves in an ignorant or arbitrary fashion. The Greek state has only one option - to implement the law. The state apparatus must punish those who dump waste into our rivers, build illegal properties in forest areas and expand the city limits into no-building zones. Failure to impose the law is a bomb in the foundations of peaceful social coexistence.

COMMENTARY

‘A purely Greek problem’ The Foreign Ministry's recall of the Greek ambassador to Skopje shows the dead-end that Greece has reached in the dispute over a permanent name for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Theodora Grosomanidou committed the sin of commenting to a reporter for The Financial Times that «Greece has to face the new reality, as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has been recognized under its constitutional name by more than half of the members of the United Nations.» What she did not need to add was that among those countries are the United States, China and Russia - which means that the big powers, all of them, have moved on and will not pay heed to Greece's arguments.

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