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Protests facing limits Minister wants talks on restricting impact from Athens marches Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras wants a public discussion on how authorities can limit the problems caused by the hundreds of demonstrations in Athens every year.

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Heat wave set to start tomorrow

The temperature in some parts of Greece is expected to reach 42 Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) next week because of a heat wave that is due to hit the country tomorrow...

Oil slick spreads into Saronic

Parts of a 200-square-meter oil slick found off the island of Salamina and Megara, west of Athens, had slipped off yesterday and washed into other parts...

Father’s suicide leap kills son

A British man tried to commit suicide late on Tuesday by jumping from his fourth-story hotel room along with his two children in Ierapetra...

Drivers on cells linked to crashes

Distracted drivers talking on their cell phones were responsible for almost half of the deaths on Greek roads between August 11 and 15...

Train prank blamed on row with passenger

A 45-year-old man was arrested after allegedly threatening that a Thessaloniki-Athens train would not reach its destination simply so he could delay...

IN BRIEF

Athens is mulling contribution of troops to UN peacekeeping force : Greece is considering committing troops to the United Nations peacekeeping force...

Evia coast guard nets three men after they unload 12 immigrants : Three suspected people traffickers were arrested early yesterday...

Second fire at Asprovalta dump : A fire broke out yesterday at a landfill in Asprovalta near Thessaloniki...

Russian thanks : Russian Ambassador in Athens Andrey Vdovin has sent a letter...

Bishop dies : The bishop of Corinth, Panteleimon, died yesterday at the age of 87...

School year : The Education Ministry confirmed yesterday that the academic year...

Turkish ports : Cyprus is not aware of a UN plan to open to Cypriot ships...

Ferry damaged : The ferry boat Samothraki suffered minor damage in the port of Mytilene...

Pensioner murder : Two men, aged 20 and 21, were yesterday charged with strangling to death...

Boys arrested : Two boys, aged 12 and 13, were arrested in Megara...


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EDITORIAL

Illegal trading and heating fuel tax A proposal to subsidize heating fuel, which the main opposition party PASOK keeps bringing up, could be valid if the difference between taxes on heating fuel and gasoline were abolished first. This is a measure that while well-intentioned has created an opportunity for what has become a widespread illegal trade. The ill-gained revenues earned by those who benefit from the price difference amounts to the astronomic sum of 2 billion euros.

COMMENTARY

A tired name game Reaching an agreement on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia name issue is a political anachronism sustained by prime minister designate Nikola Gruevski, who yesterday urged a solution «that will satisfy both sides without putting the constitutional name into question.» Antonio Miloseski, soon to be the country's foreign minister, said that FYROM is willing to reach...

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