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Athens urges Skopje move PM asks FYROM to drop defiant stance; UN envoy to visit next month Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday called upon the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to drop its intransigent stance in the name dispute with Greece and cooperate in finding a solution if it wishes to be taken seriously as a potential member of NATO.

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Cretan probe heads abroad

Suspects involved in organized crime such as drug-trafficking activities in the Cretan village...

Greece, Turkey to open pipeline

The premiers of Turkey and Greece will inaugurate a natural gas pipeline this weekend...

Teenagers film peer assault

Two teenage boys are believed to have filmed their friend sexually assaulting a high school peer using their mobile phones in Kavala...

OA grounds 4 ‘unsafe’ planes

Officials at state-carrier Olympic Airlines (OA) yesterday blamed state oversights for the leasing from a Spanish company...

A large hole in the surface of coastal Poseidonos Avenue...

A traffic policeman directs motorists away from a large hole in the surface of coastal Poseidonos Avenue yesterday.

Cypriot ‘sorceress’ on trial for eggy remedy

Having marital problems? Have you tried putting an egg in your underpants? A woman on Cyprus is on trial for sorcery...

IN BRIEF

Thousands of police to patrol city, traffic cameras will be operating : Much of central Athens will be closed today as more than 8,000 policemen...

Six people killed in car accident at notoriously risky spot near Patras : Six people, including three women, were killed in a car accident near Patras yesterday...

Patient thought to be behind knifing : A psychiatrist was found stabbed to death in his Athens clinic yesterday in an attack...

Weather woes : The National Meteorological Service (EMY) yesterday warned that much of the country...

Olympia works : Regeneration works at the site of Ancient Olympia, which was burnt during August's catastrophic fires...

Monastery theft : Three silver cases containing human bones of Orthodox saints were stolen from a monastery in Arta...

Bank robbery : Two armed men held up a branch of National Bank in Thessaloniki yesterday...

Cyprus shooting : A man was shot dead yesterday during a police operation in Cyprus to arrest suspected illegal migrants...


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EDITORIAL

Olympic safety concerns Recent reports about troubled state-owned air carrier Olympic Airlines have annulled the last remaining argument for maintaining the stagnant situation: Safety has gradually ceased to be the company's comparative advantage. Continuous company losses have pushed its managers toward cheap and patchy solutions in a bid to keep the company afloat.

COMMENTARY

Heavy legacy I know that both the prime minister and opposition leader get irritated when they are reminded of the way in which one's uncle and the other's father used to deal with serious problems, party disputes or how they treated their aides, ministers and so on. Although Greece has a tradition of patricide and most children of politicians are jealous of their successful fathers, it would be unfair not to acknowledge that Costas Karamanlis and George Papandreou act...

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