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Bird flu reaches Greece Unclear whether strain of virus is lethal to humans, island under watch Bird flu pierced the borders of the European Union after Greece confirmed yesterday its first case of the virus on an Aegean island, as Brussels responded by throwing the island into isolation as a safeguard against a possible outbreak of the disease.

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Public contracts under suspicion

Prosecutors are ready to launch an investigation into the running of a program set up to modernize the civil service between 2001 and 2003 after inspectors found that it was riddled with irregularities regarding the way public contracts were handed out, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.

Koroneia plans stay afloat

Almost a year after it suffered a major ecological disaster that left thousands of birds dead, Lake Koroneia near Thessaloniki was set on the road to recovery yesterday as the government gave its approval to cleanup plans for the area.

Khat drug is out of the bag

Police arrested three people in Athens yesterday after they took delivery of a three-kilo parcel that contained khat, an illegal plant that acts...

Money law gets Greece in trouble

The European Commission referred Greece yesterday to the European Court of Justice for leaving Brussels in the dark over its adoption of overdue measures aimed at tackling money...

Kenteris, Thanou have to wait for CAS verdict

Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were at the center of the biggest drug scandal of last year's Athens Olympics but...

IN BRIEF

Two strong tremors shake Greek isles but no injuries reported : Two strong quakes, measuring 6 and 5.9 on the Richter scale, struck...

Large ring may have produced material in Greece, sources say : A child pornography ring involving around 20 businessmen and professionals from across the country has been traced...

Victim's wife could recover : Doctors at the intensive-care unit of the university hospital in Patras yesterday were hopeful...

Suburban railway : Morning services on the Athens-Corinth route are to start an hour earlier...

DEKA trial : The trial of the former chairman and board members of the Public Portfolio Management Company (DEKA) is set to resume...

Afghanistan troops : There has been no official request for Greece to send more troops to Afghanistan...

Hash haul : Police arrested a man in Halkidiki, northern Greece, yesterday after finding...

Passenger killed : A 50-year-old woman was killed in a car accident near Thessaloniki yesterday...

BA flights : British Airways (BA) will start direct flights between the island of Rhodes and London from May next year...


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EDITORIAL

Clear message By imposing a 30-million-euro fine on Intracom, the telecommunications equipment-maker, officials at Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry merely did what they had to do. The process is clearly stated in the contract that was signed by both sides. The penalty is a big one - but so are the contract violations. The National Vessel Traffic Management and Information System, a project awarded to Intracom by the aforementioned ministry, should have been completed by December 29, 2001.

COMMENTARY

Regretful voters Whether they had C.P. Cavafy vaguely in mind or not, Greek voters questioned in a recent survey appeared to agree with one version of the Alexandrean poet's verse: «They both do equal harm to Greece.» The negative mood does not concern some abstract rejection of politics and politicians. All surveys of public opinion - which is sculpted under the strain of reality and its televised representation - underscore a serious amount of disillusionment...

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