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New faces and trusted aides are unveiled in Karamanlis’s Cabinet Several key posts remain unchanged; Papandreou hits back in PASOK leadership race Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis unveiled yesterday his new Cabinet, which contained 17 new faces out of 40 ministers and deputies but was also characterized by the ministers who held on to their posts.

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Dead birds found in Koroneia

Some 200 dead birds have been found at Lake Koroneia near Thessaloniki...

Sunken ship a ‘time bomb’

Uncollected fuel trapped in the sunken cruise ship Sea Diamond off the island of Santorini is...

Pensioners in double suicide

An 80-year-old man shot and killed his 82-year-old wife in Athens yesterday...

Thessaloniki students take up political fight

The enrollment of students at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki began with a fight...

IN BRIEF

Washington says it will stand by Vartholomaios and Halki seminary : US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns yesterday expressed Washington's support for the Ecumenical Patriarchate...

Man, around 30, likely murdered : The body of a man around the age of 30 was found in the Ano Liosia landfill in northwestern Athens yesterday wrapped...

Cruise ship : A carrying 930 Israeli tourists docked at the Dodecanese island of Rhodes yesterday after beginning to list...


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EDITORIAL

Political parties as subsidiaries Political parties are no one's subsidiary firms. This basic principle is part and parcel of our democracy and should not be forgotten. The PASOK Socialists suffered a heavy defeat and it should be up to them to decide who and what must change. Some entrepreneurial and media groups see PASOK as a branch of their business interests.

COMMENTARY

One crisis and one opportunity The new government underscored the administration's strong reserves (Christos Folias, Evripidis Stylianidis, Costis Hatzidakis) while leaving the party barons intact. Most of the colorful cadres are out, while two or three key posts...

OPINION

The upside of a huge defeat On Sunday, PASOK suffered a heavy electoral defeat, but it also won a crucial intra-party challenge. In fact, it won because the loss was so great.

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