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 Serb suspect held here for PM’s murder |
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The Serb government is expected to request, within the next few days, the extradition of a top suspect in the murder of Prime Minister...
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| All of NATO’s Med forces for ’04 |
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| PIRAEUS (AP) - NATO's entire Mediterranean naval fleet will be assigned to protect the Olympics as part of the alliance's unprecedented role in bolstering security for the Games, the flotilla's commander said on Friday.
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| Restricted access to Piraeus |
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| In August, as part of Olympic security measures, individuals and vehicles will only be able to access the port area of Piraeus if they have tickets for travel or special passes, according to new Port Authority restrictions announced last Friday.
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| Killer ex-con in shootout |
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| Police have arrested Constantine Karathanassis, 42, in connection with the fatal shooting of Albanian national Nikola Arapi, 24, in Palaio Faliron a week ago during a gunfight in which either Arapi or another man allegedly shot and killed Akritas Savouras, the son of former parliamentary deputy Hippocrates Savouras.
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| Brightly clad dancers... |
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Brightly clad dancers perform during a welcoming ceremony for the Olympic Flame in the northern town of Alexandroupolis on Saturday.
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| 50 Minoan graves found in Hania suburb |
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| Greek archaeologists have found 50 graves dating from the Late Minoan period in the Hania suburb of Aghios Ioannis on the island of Crete, bringing the total number of Minoan graves found in Hania prefecture to over 150.
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Gleaming new trams...
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EDITORIAL |
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Capital gains
This morning, Athens's shiny new trams will roll from the heart of the capital, Syntagma Square, down to the coastal suburbs of Neo Faliron and Glyfada. Many major infrastructure projects have been completed recently and will remain as part of the Olympics' legacy to Athens but something about the tram gives it a special symbolic significance.
It is at once a return to a more romantic age when cars did not dominate our lives and at the same time it is an investment in hope. |
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COMMENTARY |
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A missed opportunity
In the final stretch for the «beautiful, the great and the true,» as the slogan has it, one cannot help wondering whether what Greece is about to present to the world will in fact be beautiful, great and true.
The Games will no doubt be a great event - albeit in a distorted sense of the word. What is considered beautiful is subjective, therefore any opinion is no more valid than its exact opposite. Nevertheless, it cannot be disputed that Greece has missed a unique opportunity.
Everything that we are anxious to imitate or overcome in respect to the Games' opening ceremonies bears no relation to the events that took place in Athens in 1896, or those before that date. The aesthetic content of the modern Olympics was neither set by the ancient Games nor by the romantic philhellenes who revived them at the close of the 19th century. |
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