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Pension reforms go through, but under protest ND majority ensures bill’s passage Tempers were fraught inside and outside Parliament last night on the day that MPs voted through the government's controversial pension reforms bill, which has also sparked lengthy and widespread strikes as well as a huge protest rally in central Athens on Wednesday.

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Saving water begins at home

To mark World Water Day today, homeowners in Greece have been encouraged to fix leaky faucets and toilet cisterns as they may be doubling each family’s water consumption...

Sadistic rape case revealed

A 53-year-old Greek man who allegedly held hostage, and repeatedly raped, a 44-year-old Belarussian woman for a-year-and-a-half, has been arrested after throwing her off a first-floor balcony, police in Athens said yesterday...

Ministers join talks on name

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis is to meet with her counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Antonio Milososki in Brussels today to push forward talks...

Children suffering as parents puff away

The health of nearly seven out of 10 children living in Athens is being put at risk by their parents’ smoking habit, according to the results of a medical study made public yesterday...

IN BRIEF

Almost 7,000 firefighters are to be hired in the next few weeks : Some 5,500 seasonal firefighters will be hired...

US president proclaims March 25 a day of celebration in America : US President George W. Bush issued a statement...

Employee shot dead at work : A 40-year-old supermarket employee was shot dead...

Fishermen dead : Two fishermen, aged 62 and 63, were found dead in the Aliakmonas River...

Antiquities arrest : A 62-year-old man has been arrested in northern Athens...

Icons stolen : Thieves broke into two churches in the mountainous area of Kalabaka...

Dodgy salesmen : The 37-year-old owner of a motorcycle garage and a 20-year-old Albanian faced...

Muggers : Two Albanian youths, aged 19 and 17, faced a prosecutor...

US Embassy : The US Embassy's consular section in Athens will be closed...

Silver medal : Greek swimmer Aris Grigoriadis settled for a silver medal...


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Peace talks...
EDITORIAL

Defeating the very purpose of protest Commuters in Athens were in for a nasty surprise yesterday: Those who had to use the metro and the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railway (ISAP), in order to avoid the traffic congestion on roads in the center, headed for the stations only to find the doors closed. Employees broke the law by deciding to strike without issuing any prior warning. Those who had been informed by the media that the metro would be operating as normal, naturally took on the media for failing to inform them of the strike action.

COMMENTARY

Lost logos The recent decision by the Hellenic Post Bank to change its logo, corporate identity and name says something about they way Greece's large companies see themselves and their history. Scrapping the widely recognizable logo, the creation of a Greek designer in the 1960s was an aesthetic blunder. The almost naif double T in a combination of blue-and-yellow colors aims to project a modernist mood, but is more reminiscent of a ferry boat funnel.

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