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| No spending spree prior to elections |
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| With elections due by early May at the latest, fears are growing that the government may derail its fiscal policy by increasing handouts in order to win votes. Rumors abound that benefits may reach as high as 1.5-2 billion euros, as the government talks about its «social charter» for a rise in living standards and help for the weaker social groups.
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| N17 terrorism trial reopens |
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| Following an 11-day summer break, the trial of 19 suspected November 17 terrorists resumes today in Korydallos Prison with more testimonies from the defendants.
Once judges and lawyers have finished questioning Dionysis Georgiadis - at 27, the youngest suspect in the dock - Theologos Psaradellis, 60, a retired printer, will be the eighth person to testify.
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| Discord brewing in Florina |
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| Greece yesterday protested to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's diplomatic mission in Athens over the planned participation of FYROM's deputy Parliament speaker in a potentially controversial meeting in northern Greece.
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| Hungry bears changing diet |
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| In the latest of a string of attacks over the past few months, a member of Greece's resurgent bear population devoured a horse in an Epirus village yesterday.
The incident near Kipi, in the Zagoria group of villages some 50 kilometers north of Ioannina, came two days after a bear attack on a nearby pig farm.
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| Moving school bag yields 2-day-old girl |
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| NICOSIA (AFP) - A two-day-old Chinese baby girl is doing fine after she was discovered wrapped in a blanket and abandoned in a school bag, welfare officials said yesterday.
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