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PM declares state of ‘war’ Responds to bad poll news with pledge of victory, apparently over graft One day after a poll showed the ruling conservatives to have lost most of their popularity lead over Socialist PASOK, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday said his government was fighting «a war» and proposed to win it.

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Hope for new talks following Talat win

Athens and Nicosia expressed guarded optimism yesterday about the possible reunification of Cyprus...

Ancient literary texts resurrected

Classical scholars itching to read through a vast collection of what were hitherto illegible scraps of ancient manuscripts now have the means to do so...

Robbery rises as crime falls

Robbery and rape were on the rise last year but there was a drop in the number of murders and crime overall, figures released yesterday by the Public Order Ministry show.

Thousands caught in tax dodge

Almost 15,000 taxpayers declared incomes that in some cases were up to 160,000 euros less than the assets they bought in 2003 and thus evaded a substantial amount of tax...

Chemicals plant used as marijuana cache

Police said yesterday they had smashed a «major trafficking ring» after arresting two Albanian nationals and the Greek owner of a chemicals business near Thessaloniki...

IN BRIEF

OA passengers to face problems today as staff stage 3-hour strike : Today's three-hour work stoppage by Olympic Airlines' (OA) flight attendants...

New cuts 'will trim costs by a quarter' : A new procurement system for state hospitals - due to be implemented from May 1 - promises...

Forest fire : A fire scorched more than 1,000 hectares of pine forest on the island of Evia yesterday...

Judges testify : Two Court of First Instance presidents, Nikolaos Potamianos and his wife Georgia Lambropoulou, yesterday testified...

Food checks : The Development Ministry yesterday sent a circular to prefectural offices and the Hellenic Food Authority (EFET)...

Court disruptions : Courts are to be disrupted tomorrow and on Thursday...

Fireworks crackdown : A total of 1,127 inspections - conducted across the country...

Road death : A 62-year-old man was killed instantly yesterday...

African dust : A heavy cloud of dust from North Africa that engulfed many parts of Greece on Sunday...


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EDITORIAL

Disentangling the political system Democracy is no stranger to political battles between the government and the opposition. Winning and losing is also part and parcel of the democratic process. And the battle lines are drawn depending on the parties' electoral support.

COMMENTARY

Global sweepstakes It did not take the birth of the World Wide Web for us to establish that the passion for gambling knows no borders. In that particular business, however, globalization is already here as bookmakers based in the UK or Asia take bets from around the globe. What we didn't know is that Greeks are the keenest of Internet gamblers. They put money in all kinds of wagers and despite their economic problems - or perhaps because of them - they plunk down big sums.

OPINION

National egocentricism ...Recent developments in the ongoing dispute to decide on a name for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and the aggravation of Greek-Turkish relations provide us with yet another example of our two main political parties blaming each other for wrong moves - a sign that something is not quite right with our country.

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