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Athens ready for next stage of FYROM talks Greece wants to discuss UN proposal Athens said yesterday that it had formulated its assessment of a United Nations mediator's new proposal aimed at solving the Macedonia name dispute and was ready to move on to the next step of negotiations.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Bid to turn off child TV stars

Greece's watchdog for children's rights has written to the government to complain about TV shows...

Migrant girls enter sex trade

Migrant protection groups yesterday expressed concern about the disappearance from a hostel in Corinth of a 14-year-old Somalian girl...

New group claims slew of blasts

An unknown group of anarchists staged eight almost simultaneous arson attacks in different parts of Attica early yesterday...

Municipal high-flyer gets wings clipped

A prosecutor in Thessaloniki yesterday ordered a probe into the fate of the pension contributions of some 4,500 municipal employees...

IN BRIEF

Lauded Italian architect Renzo Piano chosen to design new complex : Renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano has been selected...

Man shot seven times while sitting in an Internet cafe in Athens : A 25-year-old man died late on Wednesday night...

Temporary solution to trash problem : Residents of Corinth, west of Athens, will have a temporary respite...

Obama backed : US Senator Barack Obama was overwhelmingly the favored presidential candidate...

Fraudsters caught : Police in Thessaloniki yesterday arrested five suspected fraudsters...

Buried fetus : A Bulgarian woman was admitted to the hospital in Iraklion...

Busy burglars : Two men have been arrested in Hania...

Dealers arrested : Police in Athens yesterday detained four Albanians...


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EDITORIAL

Sticking our head in the sand again Tension is rising again in the Balkans as Kosovo, the former Yugoslav province, has broken away from Serbia. Unfortunately, no one - not the United States, the European Union, or Belgrade - can be sure when the tensions will abide. Greece could have exploited its longstanding relations with all the governments in the region and provided useful input for a solution to the current problems.

COMMENTARY

The underlying issue in Cyprus The three-way split of voters in the first round of presidential elections on Cyprus and the exclusion of Tassos Papadopoulos by the narrowest of margins is open to several different interpretations. In Greece, Papadopoulos's numerous enemies, most of whom fervently support the Annan Plan, rejoiced at the electoral defeat of the last representative of the Cypriot national liberation struggle.

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