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EU speaks with one voice Emergency summit ends with joint statement warning Iraq to disarm

The leaders of the European Union hammered out their differences late last night and came up with a compromise joint statement warning Iraq that UN arms inspections cannot carry on indefinitely, that Europe would work with the United States to disarm Saddam Hussein but also stressing that war should be used only as a last resort.
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Cyprus poll victor reassures critics
Cyprus's new president, Tassos Papadapoulos, immediately sought to dispel his reputation as a hardliner who did not want a compromise with the Turkish Cypriots. Speaking to supporters late on Sunday after his election, he pledged to work toward a UN-mediated solution «to bring about the improvements needed to make the solution functional.»
Court action looms over OA
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said yesterday it will take Greece to court for refusing to recover 194 million euros of illegal state aid from Olympic Airways (OA). Greece, which has been trying for the past four years to to sell off its flag carrier, has said the European Union's executive arm miscalculated, and has vowed to fight back in the Greek and European courts.
Bishop kills summit of religions
In a further indication of how frigid relations between the Orthodox Church of Greece and the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate have become, a Greek bishop yesterday said he had successfully sabotaged a religious summit planned by the Patriarchate in Thessaloniki.
Officers save mugging victim from Piraiki sea
Two policemen saved the life of a Piraeus woman who had been knocked into the sea and left to drown yesterday morning by a man who stole her bag.
IN BRIEF
Right-wing publisher to testify, lodges three 3-mln-euro libel suits : Right-wing publisher Grigoris Michalopoulos is due to testify today before an Athens prosecutor...
Voters appeal for MP to step down, saying he is a practicing doctor : Four voters in PASOK deputy Thanos Askitis’s Athens constituency yesterday lodged a lawsuit...
Skopje asks Athens to ratify accord : The vice president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)...
Fraudster sentenced : A 32-year-old Athens doctor who defrauded people of sums of money...
Weather woes : A total of 140 villages across the country were cut off yesterday...
Market prices : The prices of fresh fruit and vegetables have increased by as much as 70 percent over the last 10 days...
Cyprus competition : Entries for a competition to design the flag and compose the national anthem of a reunified Cyprus were being counted yesterday...
Murder arrests : Patras police yesterday arrested three Albanians alleged to have been behind the fatal stabbing on Saturday of a 58-year-old Greek...
EKAB protest : Employees of the National First Aid Center (EKAB) will stage a five-hour work stoppage on Thursday...

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EDITORIAL
Priorities all wrong
 Two major events coincided last Saturday, enough to cause any respected news medium or journalist to vacillate. The first was the participation of millions of people in anti-war rallies across the world which took place in the wake of an historic UN Security Council session. The second was the visit by Constantine De Grecia to Greece. Faced with this dilemma, Greece's private television channels once again did not hesitate to break fresh ground...
COMMENTARY
TV circus
 "The screen is sinking, the crowd is shaking»... The crowd, yes the crowd is shaking, revolting, protesting in the streets of hundreds of cities across the globe, in a never-seen-before universal rally. Millions of people, of every race, language, age and faith, joined their anger to stop the war armada - which, according to the humanitarian generals, is already on its way, suggesting that there's nothing left for us to do except lay back on our sofas and consume the spectacle projected on our TV screens.
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