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Two pilots die battling fire on Evia Airplane crashes into mountainside Two pilots of a firefighting plane were killed yesterday when their aircraft crashed after dropping water on a wildfire on the island of Evia, northeast of Athens, taking to seven the number of people killed while battling thousands of blazes across Greece this summer.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Greece pushes for Turkish reforms

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday congratulated Turkey's Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party for its impressive victory...

Power demand hits new high

The demand for electricity from the Public Power Corporation's (PPC) network hit a new record high yesterday as the country sweltered...

Divorce verdict after 19 years

A couple who had been married for seven years had to wait another 19 years for a court in Thessaloniki to decide...

Serial sex predator is caught

Police said yesterday they have arrested a man known to authorities for allegedly robbing and sexually assaulting dozens of woman...

Remains of mastodon discovered in Grevena

A team of Greek paleontologists have discovered the tusks and fossilized remains of a 3-million-year-old mammoth-like mammal in Grevena...

IN BRIEF

Air traffic monitoring system breaks down three times on weekend : Sources said yesterday the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) system broke down three times...

Woman dies on boat from Kythnos after suffering second epileptic fit : A 29-year-old woman died after suffering an epileptic fit aboard a ferry traveling from the island of Kythnos to Piraeus...

Two men killed in separate accidents : Two people have died in two days after being hit by speedboats...

Missing teen : The child protection agency Hamogelo tou Paidiou (the Child's Smile) yesterday appealed for information...

Pensioner murder : A 33-year-old man has been arrested for the murder...

Harbor rescue : A 24-year-old Dutch tourist had a lucky escape yesterday...

Body identified : The body of a man found in Ioannina lake, northern Greece, on Sunday has been identified...

Deadly overdose : A 27-year-old man was found dead in the village of Pateles...


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EDITORIAL

Watchdog with little bark, no bite In a joint decision by ministers Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Giorgos Alogoskoufis and Dimitris Sioufas, the government has abolished the pay ceiling previously imposed on Competition Commission officials and given the green light for the recruitment of 50 new staff. There is no objection to this in principle. The commission is an independent body with the task of safeguarding free competition.

COMMENTARY

The other Greeks In our efforts to explain Greece's absurdities, criticize the shortcomings of the public administration and expose the failings of what often appears to be a self-interested government, we often commit a serious error: We generalize. The death of two Greek firefighter pilots while combating a forest blaze in Evia provided yet another occasion for mourning in this difficult summer.

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