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Mood sinks over strike Sailors refuse to budge as gov’t tries to force them back to work Striking sailors clashed with riot police in the ports of Piraeus and Patras yesterday as they ignored government orders to return to work, opting instead to carry on their industrial action for an eighth day today.

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Bakoyannis calls for new Cyprus effort

New Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis yesterday called for a fresh initiative to solve the Cyprus problem following talks with her visiting Cypriot counterpart...

EU upbeat over deficit drop

The European Commission said yesterday that Greece's finances are improving and are on target to abide by EU rules but warned...

Security firms flouting laws

Private security is one of Greece's fastest-growing industries but the sector is riddled with employers dodging...

Farmers to be given bird flu aid

Two more cases of avian flu in wild birds were confirmed in Greece yesterday as the government promised...

Bank thief raids twice and bamboozles police

A robber decided to maximize his risk-to-earnings potential yesterday by holding up two banks in Athens, which were 200 meters apart...

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor says ex-judge should be sent back to Greece from France : A French prosecutor yesterday recommended that...

Police find 4 men being held in Athens for ransom for 3 days without food : Police said yesterday that they had freed four illegal immigrants...

Councilors to elect a stand-in today : The Athens municipal council will meet shortly...

Papantoniou wins : Former PASOK defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou said...

Residence deadline : Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos said yesterday...

Eurovision tickets : State broadcaster ERT said yesterday that tickets...

Road rage : A section of the Athens-Thessaloniki national road was blocked off...

Return post : Police in Thessaloniki said yesterday that they believe...

Moderate quake : An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit an undersea area...


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EDITORIAL

Insensitive to the common good The right to strike is protected by the constitution. Hence the question with the seamen's strike is not whether they have a right to strike. The question, rather, is whether the demands put forward by the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) are clear, reasonable and urgent enough to justify the tension and actual damage caused by their inflexible stance.

COMMENTARY

First steps for Bakoyannis The statement by new Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis that the Annan plan for Cyprus «is history» is a good starting point. It does not, of course, undo the impression she gave before the Cyprus referendum on the reunification blueprint...

OPINION

The unseen abuse of young children For several days, television news bulletins were all focusing on the case of the 20-year-old woman who allegedly shook her 7-week-old baby to death because it would not stop crying. Five adults (the baby's parents and three siblings of the 26-year-old father) had been living in the Neos Cosmos...

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