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Pension bill passage hitch Procedural technicality means MPs will cast final vote on Wednesday The controversial pension reform bill was voted through Parliament article by article late on Wednesday night but, invoking a parliamentary technicality, PASOK prevented the draft law being passed as a whole in the early hours yesterday, which means that MPs will have to return to the House on Wednesday.

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Cyprus leaders agree to start talks

Cyprus President Dimitris Christo-fias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat...

FYROM name dialogue ‘useful’

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and her counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Antonio Milososki...

Yiannis Drymonakos celebrates after winning the gold...

Greek swimmer Yiannis Drymonakos celebrates after winning the gold in the 200-meter butterfly...

Hospital workers pay issue

Hospitals in Athens are spending millions of euros every year to hire private support staff for menial tasks but the workers are allegedly being paid...

PASOK elects new secretary

PASOK leader George Papandreou did not get the ringing endorsement he wanted yesterday...

Police to be freed from VIP guard duty

New legal provisions will curb the number of policemen available to guard politicians and other VIPs, freeing up hundreds of officers for active duty...

IN BRIEF

EYDAP says that reserves are down considerably compared to last year : Athens's water reserves have fallen by 10 months' worth of consumption this year in comparison to last year...

Suspect who shot man in Athens road rage attack is in custody : A 23-year-old Albanian man, believed to have shot dead...

Woman tells of how IKA chief died : The murder trial of Dimitris Vrakatselis, the man accused of killing Yiannis Vartholomaios...

Giannakou better : Former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou, who suffered a heart attack...

Meningitis death : A 19-year-old air force conscript, Panayiotis Kalogeropoulos...

Bird flu? : Authorities in the northern region of Evros were on alert yesterday after bird flu was detected among poultry...

Bulgarian conviction : A Bulgarian court yesterday handed down a 16-year jail sentence to a 22-year-old man...

Armed robberies : Two armed robbers held up a branch of Eurobank in Thessaloniki yesterday...


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A rally to protest against the Public Power Corporation’s plans...
EDITORIAL

Greece sinks to bottom of league The talks held yesterday in Brussels between Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and her Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) counterpart Antonio Milososki, attended by US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried, have highlighted the difficulties currently faced by the three countries. Greece, after failing to persuade its small neighbor to change its name in the previous round of UN-mediated talks...

COMMENTARY

Where is our faith? Greece is undoubtedly going through a rough patch. Prolonged strikes have caused social unrest and political adversity. Piles of garbage and repeated power cuts have brought most citizens to the end of their tether. But, like all the other storms we have endured in the past, this one too shall pass and the country will go forward if the government remains firm on the path to reform.

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