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Karamanlis to join Cyprus talks Greek, Turkish prime ministers and UN’s Annan will meet in Lucerne in bid to break impasse Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have accepted an invitation from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and will join talks aimed at solving the Cyprus issue on March 28, officials said yesterday.

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Greece calls for restraint

Greece yesterday appealed to the ethnic Albanians and Serbs of Kosovo to stop the violence and to hold talks to solve the problems of the Serb province, which has been under NATO's protection since 1999.

Whip cracks for suburban rail

Transport Minister Michalis Liapis yesterday called for maximum effort on the part of construction crews and railway officials to ensure that most of the new Athens suburban railway is functioning before the opening of the August Olympics.

2 lawyers walk out of ELA trial

The trial of five suspected Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) terrorists suffered a new delay yesterday when two defense lawyers stormed out after the court refused to dismiss evidence submitted by a prosecution witness.

Oleksander Svitlichni...

Oleksander Svitlichni, of the Ukraine, competes in the men's horizontal bar contest yesterday during the second day...

Bloody bar heist leaves one dead

One customer was fatally injured and five more suffered slight gunshot wounds in a central Athens bar early yesterday when two men robbed the establishment at gunpoint.

Phony policemen milk tourists of ‘fake’ cash

Athens police have mounted a search for four men who prey on Asian tourists by posing as plainclothes officers and supposedly checking their wallets for forged banknotes, a report said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Two 4.4-Richter tremors shake Edessa, a 4.7 quake in southern Dodecanese : Two earthquakes, both measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, occurred near the northern town of Edessa...

Ministry to reconsider contracts without tender or by restricted tender : Deputy Defense Minister Vassilis Michaloliakos yesterday decided to annul all of the weapons procurement contracts...

600,000 euros in damage in Haidari : A team of 70 firefighters, manning 21 fire engines, took four hours to extinguish a huge blaze that broke out at a shoe factory...

Madrid service : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis, Labor Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos and PASOK Secretary-General Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday evening joined church officials...

Anti-terror summit : Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis is due in Brussels today to join his European Union counterparts for a special summit...

Baehring rebuffed : A Thessaloniki appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of a German man sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison...

Beach death : A 37-year-old Albanian was killed yesterday trying single-handedly to dislodge his truck that had got stuck in the sand...

Anti-war rally : Opposition parties PASOK and Synaspismos Left Coalition yesterday both announced their participation in tomorrow's demonstration...

Smugglers charged : Five men were charged yesterday with smuggling a group of 49 illegal immigrants to Greece...


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EDITORIAL

Fake certificates The decision by the Council of State (CoS) Wednesday to temporarily suspend the so-called certificates of transparency that were granted by the National Radio and Television Council (ESR) to the Aktor and Pantechniki construction companies confirms what we never tire to point out - that the safety valves against political and business entanglement, as wanting as they may be legally, have always merely been treated as obstacles to be bypassed with a myriad of pretexts.

COMMENTARY

A dilemma for Kosovo The deadly violence in Kosovo was not a bolt from the blue. It had long been clear that a spark was enough to ignite disaster. Ethnic Albanians used NATO to win their de facto secession from Serbia and are now pressuring to have the fait accompli recognized by the world. They believe that gaining independence is but a matter of time; this is why they even reject proposals for enhanced autonomy. Ethnic Albanians have carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing. With armed attacks, daily disturbances, and suffocating pressure they have succeeded in driving many Serbs from their homes. Those who stayed behind now reside in the more secure enclaves in the north of the province. It is not the first time that the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica has been swept by violence.

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