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Denktash will not go Papadopoulos to attend Swiss talks, Turkish Cypriot holds out Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos will attend talks aimed at solving the Cyprus issue in Switzerland next week, the National Council of government officials and party leaders decided yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

OTE charged over deal in Bulgaria

A senior prosecutor has filed criminal charges (including fraud and money laundering) against senior management of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) and Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) for allegedly rigging an auction that allowed the Greek company to purchase a license to operate a mobile telephone company in Bulgaria.

British deny Olympic fears

LONDON (AP) - The British Olympic Association said yesterday it has confidence in security measures for the Athens Games and has no intention of withdrawing its team.

ELA trial adjourned for a week

The dragging Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) terrorism trial suffered yet another delay yesterday, after judges postponed the proceedings for a week to allow a newly appointed defense lawyer to acquaint himself with the case.

Charges filed over museum

Greece's plans to build a new Acropolis Museum that might eventually host the Elgin, or Parthenon, Marbles, suffered a major legal blow yesterday.

A blind boy runs his hand...

A blind boy runs his hand over a copy of an ancient sculpture at the Museum of Touch, in the Athens district of Kallithea...

Egyptian worker killed on shopping mall site

An Egyptian laborer died under tons of concrete in the heart of Athens yesterday, during work to refurbish one of the city's landmark buildings ahead of the Summer Olympics.

IN BRIEF

Protest against war on terror to disrupt traffic in central Athens : A protest rally against the ongoing US occupation of Iraq, due to begin at noon today in Syntagma Square, is likely to cause traffic disruptions...

Seamen's case to be referred to EU General Affairs Council : Greece will refer the case of the five Greek seamen who remain under house arrest at a Karachi hotel to the European Union's General Affairs Council...

Unclear whether Greek troops will stay : Defense Ministry sources yesterday did not rule out the eventuality of extending the stay of Greek peacekeeping troops in Mitrovica...

Aliakmon trial : A Thessaloniki court yesterday began discussing 15 legal suits lodged against Thessaloniki's intercity bus company (KTEL)...

Coach pays : Greece's national basketball coach said yesterday that he had sent the money to pay a 433-euro fine for setting off a fire alarm by smoking...

Traffic disruptions : Work today to erect electronic road signs will mean that the right-hand lane and hard shoulder of Athens-bound traffic on the Athens-Lamia national road will be blocked...

MP sworn in : Civil engineer Athina Korka-Consta was yesterday officially sworn in as an MP on New Democracy's Corinth ticket...

Vartholomaios : Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, speaking from New York on Thursday, argued that Turkey's eventual accession to the European Union would be a positive development...

Church raid : Two burglars yesterday morning broke into a church in the northern town of Florina and made off with a silver pyx...


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Anna Psarouda-Benaki...
EDITORIAL

Reverse process Kosovo had been away from the international spotlight for some time, thus facilitating ethnic cleansing - this time of Kosovo Serbs. Whereas the crimes committed under ex-Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic came under the microscope five years ago, the subsequent crimes by ethnic Albanians went by largely unnoticed, confirming that big words about human rights tend to be a disguise for hypocrisy and a policy of double standards.

COMMENTARY

Tough challenges ahead The newly elected conservative government is faced with a complex situation. All areas of its activity are facing emergencies. The new government has inherited staggering economic, political and organizational deficits, and timetables are tight. A few months before the Olympic Games opening ceremony, many venues and infrastructure projects are behind schedule while the Madrid carnage and the rise of Islamic terrorism have intensified security concerns. At the same time, the country is faced with a resurgence of violence in Kosovo - Greek troops participate in the international force - and is pushing for a Cyprus settlement in a context that has been shaped by third parties. Further financial strain results from scarce resources, while the need to fulfill pre-election pledges adds further to this pressure and requires delicate handling.

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